Converting Cultures, Fall 2002.  Dartmouth College
     
Tentative Schedule for December Conference:
Saturday November 30, 2002
7:30~9:00 p.m. Reception (Hayward Lounge, Hanover Inn)
 
Day 1: Sunday, December 1, 2002
8:00~8:30 Continental Breakfast (Wheelock Room, Hanover Inn)
8:30~8:45
Opening Remarks
Kevin Reinhart and Dennis Washburn
8:45~10:45
Session 1
I-shin Chow: "Visions of the other: The European palaces at the Yuan Ming Yuan"
Louise Catherine Grubb: "The roots of Turkish nationalist architectural style in late 19th century Istanbul"
Discussant: Ertan Aydin
11:00~1:00
Session 2
M. Said Ozervarli: "Transfering traditional Islamic sciences into modern social sciences in late Ottoman thought: The cases of Ziya Gokalp and Mehmed Serefeddin"
Sari Kawana: "Science without conscience: Unno Juza, technology, and the problem of Tenko in 1930s Japan"
Discussant: Jim Dorsey
2:30~4:30
Session 3
Sho Konishi: "The turn to anarchist modernity in the Russo-Japanese War"
Mark Lincicome: "From pacifism to Pacific War: Conversion or convergence?"
Discussant: Nancy Stalker
4:45~5:45
Interlocutor's Session
Takashi Fujitani
6:15~9:00 Reception and Dinner (Hayward Lounge, Hanover Inn)
 
Day 2: Monday, December 2, 2002
8:00~8:30 Continental Breakfast (Wheelock Room, Hanover Inn)
8:30~8:45
Opening Remarks
Kevin Reinhart and Dennis Washburn
8:45~10:45
Session 4
Anil Mathew Varughese: "(Re)conversion as an ideological project: Lessons from contemporary India"
Bulent Bilmez: ""Conversion" to atheism in Albania"
Discussant: Barbara Reeves-Ellington
11:00~1:00
Session 5
Rebecca Nedostup: "Civic faith and hybrid ritual in nationalist China"
Ilana Feldman: ""Commanding what is good": Religious services as civic services in mandate Gaza"
Discussant: Jim Murphy
2:30~4:30
Session 6
Eliza Kent: ""Mass movements" in India and the legal definition of religious conversion"
Emre Uckardesler: "From anti-capitalism to global markets: Conversion in Turkish Islamism"
Discussant: Laura Jenkins
4:45~5:45
Interlocutor's Session
Peter van der Veer
 
Day 3: Tuesday, December 3, 2002
8:00~8:30 Continental Breakfast (Wheelock Room, Hanover Inn)
8:30~8:45
Opening Remarks
Kevin Reinhart and Dennis Washburn
8:45~11:30
Session 7
Maurus Reinkowski: "Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Christians in the Ottoman Empire and Iran"
Bojan Aleksov: "Adamant and apostasy: Religious conversions in the Balkans"
Trent Maxey: "The crisis of conversion and religious discourse in nineteenth century Japan"
Discussant: Marc Baer
1:00~3:45
Session 8
Patrick Caddeau: "From morals to melancholy: How a Japanese critic rejected Bakin and learned to love Shakespeare"
Yilmaz Colak: "Language policy: Cultural conversion and ideology in the early republican Turkey"
Jeff Long: "The Tenko of a Text: Hayashi Fusao's Seinen and the 'rediscovery' of Japan"
Discussant: Alan Tansman
4:00~5:00
Interlocutor's Session
Selim Deringil
5:30~7:30
Buffet Dinner (Drake Room, Hanover Inn)

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