Wednesday, 23 September 2015
16.30-18.30 Registration
18.30-19.00 Introduction: Ulrike Lindner / Dörte Lerp (Cologne)
19.00-20.00 Opening Lecture by Clare Midgley (Sheffield): Locating agency: Feminism, religion and empire after the transnational turn
20.00 Reception
Thursday, 24 September 2015
9.15-10.45
Panel 1: Biographies and Relationships
Bettina Brockmeyer (Bielefeld): Love affair? State’s affair? The interpretations of a hanging in German East Africa or questions of gender and race in colonial historiography
Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst (Cologne): Men and Women on the Edge of Time – When the colonial order falls apart
Chair: Larissa Förster (Cologne)
10.45-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30
Panel 2: Regulating Marriages
Julia Malitska (Stockholm): Colonizing Marriage: Legal Restrictions on Marriage of the German colonists in the Black Sea Steppe in the first half of the 19th century
Alexis Rappas (Istanbul): Desperate Colonial Wives: Mixed Marriages and the Boundaries of Imperial Sovereignty in the Aegean Sea
Chair: Béatrice Hendrich (Cologne)
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-16.00
Panel 3: Masculinity, Femininity and Sexuality
Jan Severin (Berlin): Male Same-Sex Desire and Masculinity in Colonial German Southwest Africa
Stefan Hübner (Munich): Muscular Christianity and the Emergence of a “Modern Asia”: The YMCA, the YWCA, and the Far Eastern Championship Games (c. 1913-1934)
Ofri Ilani (Berlin): An Oriental Vice: Representations of Sodomy in Early Zionist Discourse
Chair: Oliver Tappe (Cologne)
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.00
Panel 4: Masculinity in Imperial Wars
Silvan Niedermeier (Erfurt): Imperial Self-Fashioning: Approaching Gender and Empire through the lens of private photo albums of the Philippine American War (1899-1902)
Sandra Maß (Bielefeld): Colonial Soldiers in the First World War: Masculinity, Race and Nationalism in Germany
Chair: Jens Ruppenthal (Cologne)
Friday, 25. September 2015
9.15-10.45
Panel 5: Civilising Missions and Imperial Feminism
Brigitte Fuchs (Vienna): Austria-Hungary's Civilising Mission in Bosnia and its Positive Effects on Domestic Feminists' Demands 1890-1918
Ivan Sablin/Valentina Smirnova (Heidelberg/St Petersburg): Gender, Orientalism, and Decolonization in North Asia: Female Toilers of the Orient in Bolshevik Discourse of the 1920s–1930s
Chair: Ulrike Lindner (Cologne)
10.45-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30
Panel 6: Female Suffrage and Female Writing
Sumita Mukherjee (Oxford): The Global and Imperial Connections of Indian Campaigners for Female Suffrage in the Interwar Period
Kaitlin Staudt (Oxford): Generic Modernism: Popular Literature Modernity and Gender in Britain and Turkey
Chair: Jens Jäger (Cologne)
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-16.00
Panel 7: Education and Schooling
Jana Tschurenev (Göttingen): Between patriarchy, imperialism, and women’s empowerment: Women and education in colonial India (1820s-1880s)
Divya Kannan (New Delhi): 'Saving Our Sisters': Female education and the London Missionary Society in Nineteenth Century South India
Aude Chanson (Paris): European women: Model for Tanzanian women in the schooling process during the German colonial period (1885-1914)?
Chair: Barbara Lüthi (Cologne)
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.00
Panel 8: Development and Social Care in Colonial Settings
Angharad Fletcher (Hong Kong / London): Caring for Empire: Colonial Nursing in Hong Kong and Cape Town (1880-1914)
Charlotte Riley (York): To Educate a Girl is to Educate a Family: Gender and Early British Development Practice in the Interwar Period
Chair: Esther Helena Arens (Cologne)
19.00 Conference dinner
Saturday, 26. September 2015
9.30-11.30
Panel 9: Indigenous Servants and Colonial Homes
Violaine Tisseau (Paris): Taking care of European children in colonial Madagascar (1896-1960)
Eva Bischoff (Trier): Being at Home: Settler Colonial Biopower and the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Australia
Elizabeth Dillenburg (Minneapolis): The “Pride of Race”: Domestic Service Debates in New Zealand and South Africa, c. 1890-1914
Chair: Ulrike Schaper (Berlin)
11.30-12.30 Final discussion
Chair: Ulrike Lindner / Dörte Lerp (Cologne)