ESSHC 2010
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ESSHC 2010 - Special Events
Pre conference workshop
Beyond Belgium. Transnational Social and Cultural Entanglements, 1880-1920
For more information and the programme please click
here.
Organisers: Prof. Gita Deneckere (Ghent University), Dr. Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University, Newcastle)
and Dr. Christophe Verbruggen (Ghent University)
Date: 12 April 2010
Location: Room ‘Jan Dhondt’- 120.012 (2nd floor University Forum), Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35, Ghent
Participation is free of charge, but please note there is only a very limited number of places.
Early registration is therefore recommended. To register and obtain further information,
please contact Christophe Verbruggen
christophe.verbruggen@ugent.be.
Guided tours of STAM
On Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon (16.30- 18.30) guided tours will be organized
(for a maximum of 20 participants) in and around the building site of STAM, the
new City Museum of Ghent. You will get to see the STAM "under construction":
a beautifully restored 14th century building, including the magnificent medieval abbey
refectory with unique pre-Eyckian wall paintings. You will get an exclusive preview of the new City
Museum that will be almost finished at the time of the conference. The abbey's ambulatory will follow
a chronological trail bringing the successive periods into view. Multimedia applications will take
visitors on a journey through time along Ghent's streets, squares, alleyways and neighbourhoods,
peeling away the city's many layers as it goes. The past is the starting point but not the end point,
for STAM will look at the present form the past and make a projection about the future.
The setting may be historical but the approach is very 'now', just like Ghent in fact!
You can sign up by sending an e-mail to Harm Kaal h.kaal@let.ru.nl.
General Meeting, Lecture and Reception
Wednesday April, 14
17.30: General Meeting with Lecture in the great hall of the Muziekcentrum Bijloke
18.30: Reception in the foyer of Muziekcentrum De Bijloke
We invite all participants to attend the general meeting with a brief report on the ESSHC, an introduction on Amsab
and a special lecture by Dr. Nandini Gooptu:
In the Name of the Poor: Poverty and Politics in India in a Comparative Perspective
Indian politics has been dominated by diverse notions of poverty and concepts of the poor.
Gandhi sought to personify the quintessential virtuous poor as the symbol of Indian nationalism
in late colonial India, while post-colonial populist regimes pledged to "abolish poverty" and
to govern in the name of the "common poor people". Today, the enterprising poor in India
are celebrated as ideal neoliberal citizens, as evident from the global ubiquity of the image
of the "slumdog millionaire". This lecture will explore depictions of poverty in political
discourse at key conjunctures in Indian history from the 1930s onwards, while engaging with
comparative historical insights and theoretical perspectives from Europe and Latin America. The
lecture will illuminate the multiple and contradictory representations of poverty in India, as shaped
by regimes of social and economic policy and the imperatives of mass political mobilization in colonial
and post-colonial contexts. The analysis will probe the significance of the agency of the poor in influencing
wider discourses on poverty, and touch upon interpretations of the idea of poverty based on the
development of capitalism, processes of state formation and the evolution of forms of governance.
Nandini Gooptu, BA (Calcutta), PhD (Cambridge) is Faculty Fellow, St Antony's College and University Reader in South Asian Studies, Oxford. She is a member of the Oxford Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House). She teaches History and Politics, and her research is on twentieth-century South Asia. Her interests include urban poverty and development; sectarian, nationalist and democratic politics; social movements; political ideologies and norms; globalization, enterprise culture, work and labour. She is the author of The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth Century India (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
After the lecture you are invited to joint the reception in the foyer.
Free concert
In the evening of Thursday April 15, 20.00 hours, a special free concert in Muziekcentrum De Bijloke:
Graupner on Stage!
Christoph Graupner (1683-1760)
Dido, Königin von Carthago (Heinrich Hinsch)(1707 Hamburg)
Antiochus und Stratonica (Barthold Feind)(1708)
Performers
- Elisabeth Scholl, soprano
- Reinoud Van Mechelen, tenor
- Stefan Geyer, baritone
- Johan van Cauwenberge, presenter
- Instrumental Ensemble Ex Tempore
- Swantje Hoffmann and Nicolas Achten, musical direction
Why do we all know Johann Sebastian Bach, but not his contemporary, Christoph Graupner? Why did the eighteenth-century church council of Leipzig first appeal to Graupner, and only later to Bach? Who can really tell the difference between Graupner's work and Bach's work? In other words: how do music historians influence our listening habits as well as our taste of music?
Read more on Graupner
Lecture on Graupner
If you would like to learn more about Christoph Graupner, you can attend the lecture on Thursday afternoon, 16.30 hours in the Auditorium of the Muziekcentrum
