Nation, Culture and Civilisation: Talking about and beyond ‘the West’ (1860-1940)
June 3, 2016
Venue: University of St Andrews – New Seminar Room, St John’s House, South Street
9:00-12:00 Chair: Konrad Lawson (St Andrews)
Introduction
Riccardo Bavaj (St Andrews) – Martina Steber (Konstanz/Munich)
Neither West nor Rest. Changing Concepts of Civilization in Japan, 1860-1940
Daniel Hedinger (Munich)
Environments of “The West” in Chinese Travel Diaries and Photo Albums during the 1920s and 1930s
Shirley Ye (Birmingham)
Occidentalism – Images of the West and Western Civilisation in Korea
Eun-Jeung Lee (Berlin)
12:00-13:30: Lunch
13:30-15:00 Chair: Ali Ansari (St Andrews)
Muslims in interwar Europe: A Transcultural Historical Perspective
Umar Ryad (Utrecht)
The requisites of civilization? Satirical critiques of “the West” in the later Ottoman Empire
Michael Talbot (Greenwich)
15:00-15:30: Coffee
15:30-16:30 Chair: Magnus Brechtken (Munich)
Commentary
Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary University of London)
Concluding discussion