Sugarlandia - First International Workshop on Re-Thinking Sugar Colony in the Asia-Pacific Region in a Global Context

Workshop at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
5-6 July, 2001

Program

5 July

09:30    Introduction by Roger Knight: Sugarlandia. Re-Thinking the Sugar Colony in the Asia-Pacific Region, 1850-1940 (Workshop's discussion paper)

10:00   Sri Margana, Village, Villager and Onderneming: Social-legal Response in the Colonial Plantation

10.10   Ulbe Bosma, Sugar and Dynasty in Yogyakarta

10.20   Coffee Break

10.30   Discussant: Ratna Saptari

11.00   Plenary Discussion

12.15   Lunch at Jaap Hannis

14.00   Juan Giusti-Cordero, Compradors or Compadres?: 'Sugar Barons' in the Philippines and Puerto Rico after 1898

14.10   Fernando Rosa Ribeiro, The ‘Plural Society' Revisited: Colonial and Post-Colonial Identities in Suriname, Brazil and Java'

14.20   Alex van Stipriaan Luiscius, Plantation identities: naming in Caribbean slave society

14.30   Discussant: Heather Sutherland

15.00   Tea Break

15.10   Plenary Discussion

16.30   Drinks

6 July

09:30   Roger Knight, Colonial Desire. Thomas Jeffreys Edwards (1815-1865): Sugar, Technology and Colonial Communities in the Mid-nineteenth century Java

09:40   Arthur van Schaik, Sugar, Race, and Society in Provincial Java, European and Eurasian in mid-19th century Pekalongan

09:50   Joost Coté, Civilising Sugar?: The culture of a sugar port town, Semarang in an age of respectability

10:00   Discussant: Gert Oostindie

10:30   Coffee Break

10.45   Plenary Discussion

12.15   Lunch

13.15   Sidney Mintz, Issues and Observations

13:45   Exploring a research agenda (Plenary discussion)

16:15   Concluding remarks by Roger Knight

16:30   End

19:00   Dinner