Forms of bonded labour. Conceptual approaches towards a new comparative research framework
Stadt: Universität zu Köln
Beginn: 2014-06-23
Ende: 2014-06-24
URL: http://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/17371.html?&L=0
Internationale Tagung an der Universität zu Köln
Organization: Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Ulrike Lindner, Gesine Müller and Michael Zeuske (Köln)
23. und 24. Juni 2014
Venue: Neuer Senatssaal, Main Building, University of Cologne
Monday 23 June
13.10 Greetings and Introduction (Ulrike Lindner)
First Panel “Changing forms of labour in the 18th and 19th century”
13:30-14:15
Matthias van Rossum (Leiden): ‘Transforming of the Coolie – case studies into changing coolie labour relations in the Dutch Empire (18th and 19th century)’
14:15-15:00
Ulrike Lindner (Cologne): “Indentured labour in sub-Saharan Africa 1880s to 1918. Circulation of concepts between imperial powers.”
15:00-15:45
Michael Zeuske (Cologne): “Transition to Free Labor or Other Slavery? Slaves and Asiáticos in the Caribbean and in Angola. (Preliminary Thoughts)”
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break (Dozentencafe)
16.30-18.15 Second Panel: “Bonded Labour in Southeast Asia”
16:30-17:15
Oliver Tappe (Cologne): “Variants of bonded labour in the highlands of precolonial and colonial Southeast Asia.”
17:15-18:00
Olivia Kilias (Berlin): Forms of Bonded Labour in Southeast Asia: The Case of Indoensian Domestic Workers in Malaysia.
Tuesday, 24 June
9.00-10.45 Third Panel "Perspectives of Migration and Coolitude from and in the Carribean”
09:00-09:45
Liliana Gomez (Harvard): “Re-presenting and narrating labor. Coolie migration in the Caribbean”
09:45-10:30
Gesine Müller (Cologne): Cultural forms of representations of Coolis: Khal Torabully and his concept of „Coolitude“.
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break (Dozentencafe)
11.15-13.00 Fourth Panel: “From Slavery to Sponsorhip-Systems in the Arabian Peninsula?”
11:15-12:00
Sabine Damir Geilsdorf (Cologne): “Labour Migration and Sponsorship-Systems in the Arab Gulf States: Changing Legal Frameworks, Policies and Practices”
12:00-12:45
Alaine Hutson (Austin): “REMAPping the slave experience in Arabia, 1926-1938””
13.00 -14.00 Concluding Discussion
Beitrag von: Benjamin Loy
Redaktion: Lars Schneider