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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Property and Being Under Colonial Conditions in Asia and Africa
DESCRIPTION:This conference will be hybrid. Join the Zoom meeting here: https://myumi.ch/1nMed\n\nHistorians have long proposed that property is as much about relationships between people as it is about the ownership of “things.” It is about both belonging\, and belongings. Property offers a window onto contestations over power\, social relations\, resources\, identity and political imagination. Histories of property in Asia and Africa\, in particular\, are intertwined with histories of colonial expansion\, the emergence of new forms of state power\, the creation of new categories/taxonomies of governance\, the appropriation of indigenous lands\, the reordering of social relations\, and new or reworked imaginaries of property \n\nThe purpose of this interdisciplinary conference\, “Property and Being under Colonial Conditions in Asia and Africa\,” is to explore how comparing intellectual\, cultural\, social\, political-economic\, and legal histories of property from African and Asian colonial contexts may help us rethink ideas about land\, ownership\, dispossession\, rights\, credit\, subjectivities\, and political imaginations. Participants will engage with the historically sedimented entanglements of colonial policy and indigenous practices\, developmentalist desires\, and cultural and climatic change. Conversations across these regions may thus enable new understandings of property histories.\n\nSchedule:\n\nFriday 13 May\, 2022\n\n9:00  Arrival in 1014 Tisch Hall\; pastries and coffee\n\n9:30 Welcome \nMeenu Deswal and Tara Weinberg\, University of Michigan\n\n9:45 Panel I: Racial Logics of Property\nCommentator: Brian Klein\n\nXafsa Ciise (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\, “Species Extinction and Terrorism: The Political Economy of Conservation Wars in Africa”\n\nClaire Cororaton (Cornell University)\, “On Property and the Philippine Democratic Experiment: Mateo Cariño’s Case and its Afterlives in Philippine History”\n\nSajdeep Soomal (University of Toronto)\, “Fatty Bitumen in Punjab”\n\n11:45 Lunch (Provided)\n\n13:00 Panel II: Of Collective Property\, Communities\, and Claim-Making \nCommentator: Jatin Dua\n\nAmelia Burke (University of Michigan)\, “Titles\, Rights and Shares: Individual Inheritance and Collective Lands in Colonial Morocco” \n\nDipanjan Mazumder (Vanderbilt University)\, “A sacred history of property: Vernacular legal culture in early modern Bengal” \n\nSauda Nabukenya (University of Michigan)\, “Struggles and strategies of the landless: contesting possession\, and the framing of legal regimes in Buganda”\n\nTara Weinberg (University of Michigan)\, “Imaginaries of collective property ownership in South Africa: a history of land buying syndicates in the early 20th century”\n\n15:00 - 15:15 Tea Break\n\n15:15 Keynotes and Reflections on Day 1:\nRohit De and Nafisa Essop Sheik\n\nSaturday 14 May\, 2022\n\n9:30 Arrival in 1014 Tisch Hall\; Pastries and coffee\n\n10:00 Panel III: Property\, Contracts\, and Being \nCommentator: Sanne Ravensbergen \n\nFusheng Luo (University of Michigan)\, “A Tale of Two Settlements: The Formation of the Treaty Port Property Regimes in the British Settlements in Shanghai and Guangzhou”\n\nHalimat Somotan (Carnegie Mellon University)\, “Property Owners\, Renters\, and Claims to Public Amenities in Colonial Lagos”\n\nLamin Manneh (University of Michigan)\, “‘Their reckless and dissipating husbands’: Property\, marriage\, and intercolonial trade in the British West African Settlements 1860-1888”\n\nMeenu Deswal (University of Michigan)\, “Consent and the Question of Women as Property in Colonial Law\, South Asia 1850-1920”\n\n12:00 Break\n\n12:15 Reflections on Day 2 and Conference Closing\n\n13:00 Departure lunch – walk over to LSA canopy for lunch
UID:94706-21761599@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/94706
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:African American,African Studies,African Studies Center,anthropology,Area Studies,Asia,Asian Languages And Cultures,Asian/pacific Islander American Studies,Center For South Asian Studies,Colonialism,Culture,Economics,Environment,Ethics,Faculty,Free,Global And Transnational,Graduate,Graduate And Professional Students,History,Human Right,Humanities,india,Interdisciplinary,International,international studies,multicultural,Social Impact,social justice,Social Sciences,sociology,south asia,south asian,South Asian Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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