BICC launch conference History panel, 28th June 2007
Programme
‘The Internationalisation of late Qing and early twentieth century China’
Panel convenors, Robert Bickers, Regina Llamas, Rana Mitter
9-9.30 Registration
Session 1 9.30-11.00: Chair: Joshua Fogel (York University, Canada)
Song-Chuan Chen (St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge University), ‘China Opening up: a Decade of Stirring up Discontent in 1830s Canton’
Henrietta Harrison (Harvard), ‘Nationalism in an International Institution: The Catholic Church in early 20th century Shanxi’
Session 2 11.15-12.45, Chair: Maurizio Marinelli (Bristol University)
Joan Judge (York University, Canada), ‘The Globalization of the Chinese Woman Question at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’
Andrea Janku (SOAS), ‘The internationalization of famine relief in the late Qing’
12.45 Lunch
Session 3, 2.00-3.30, Chair: Rana Mitter (Oxford)
Ruth Rogaski (Vanderbilt), ‘Fossils Without Borders: The Rocky Internationalization of Science in Twentieth-Century Manchuria’
Robert Bickers (Bristol), ‘Lights for the Coast of China: the roles and functions of the Chinese Maritime Customs in the internationalization of China’
Break, 3.30-3.45
Session 4, 3.45-4.30, Chair, Regina Llamas
Ed Vickers (Institute of Education, University of London), ‘Museums in 'Greater China' and the representation of the international in modern Chinese history’
Concluding discussion, 4.30-5.30: Chair, Robert Bickers
Discussant: Karl Gerth (Oxford University)