Programme

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