6 June
9:15 | Welcome, Introduction |
9:30-10:30 | Faisal Devji (Oxford University), Gender and the Generic Muslim Subject |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
11:00-12:00 | Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (ENS Paris/CNRS), The Dynamics of Disciplinary Organization. Center and Periphery of Knowledge at International Orientalist Congresses |
12:00-13:00 | Constanze Güthenke (Oxford University), “The Last Arcadians” – American Classicists, Modern Greece, Old Europe |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch at HCAS |
14:00-15:00 | Razak Khan (University of Erlangen), Fringe Orientalism: Jewish Orientalist Scholars of Islam in South Asia |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee |
15:30-16:30 | Patricia Berg (Swedish Literature Society/University of Helsinki), Nineteenth-century Orientalism in Finland, as Reflected in the Writings of Georg August Wallin |
18:30 | Buffet Dinner at HCAS for speakers and chairs |
7 June
10:00-11:00 | Mikko Viitamäki (Helsinki University), Origins of Sufism according to Capt. Wahid Bakhsh (d. 1995): A Pakistani Sufi’s response to the orientalists |
11:00-11:30 | Coffee |
11:30-12:30 | Timo Kaartinen (Helsinki University), Snouck-Hurgronje’s Inverse Orientalism and Islamic Education in Indonesia |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch at HCAS |
13:30-14:30 | Bonnie Effros (University of Liverpool), Berbers as the Ancient Maures: Missionary Work and Archaeology in the French Protectorate of Tunisia |
14:30-15:30 | Svetlana M. Gorshenina (Gerda Henkel Stiftung / Observatoire “Alerte Héritage,” Paris), Receptions of Photographs of Russian Turkestan in Social Networks: Instrumentalization of the Past or Revival of Colonial Representation Schemes? |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
16:00-17:00 | Henning Trüper (University of Helsinki), Orientalism as Seen from its Fringes |
17:00-17:30 | Concluding discussion |
19:00 | Conference Dinner (restaurant) for speakers |