The Eurasian Question

Conference
The Eurasian Question
Presentations by: Alison Blunt (Queen Mary London); Elleke Boehmer (Oxford):
Saskia Bonjour (Leiden); Liz Buettner (UVA); Vincent Houben (Humboldt
University Berlin): Guno Jones (VU): Sarah Klerks (Indisch 3.0) Jacqueline Knörr
(Max Planck Institute): Susan Legêne (VU): Thomas Lindblad (Leiden): Bart
Luttikhuis (European University Institute Florence): Willem Maas (York University
Toronto): Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson (Leiden); Aniek Smit (Leiden): Carolien Stolte
(Leiden); Kirsten Vos (Indisch 3.0); Jennifer Yee (Oxford)
Monday March 24th, 2014, Leiden. Conference room; Huizinga Building
Participation by registration only (pay 10 euro at the door)
Registration: [email protected]
This conference has been sponsored by: Leiden University Fund/Van Walsem, Leiden
History Department, KNAW, Stichting Vulgo and the Posthumus Instituut.
Program The Eurasian Question March 24th, 2014, Leiden
Time:
From 8.45:
9.15-9.45
Speaker
Welcome: coffee/tea
Introduction Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson and Marlou
Schrover (Leiden)
9.45-10.15
Alison Blunt (Queen Mary London): 'AngloIndians in India and Britain'
Jennifer Yee (Oxford): 'Fear and Desire: Myths of
the Métis in French Indochina’
Break: coffee/tea
Bart Luttikhuis (European University Institute
Florence): 'Working on the railroad: IndoEuropeans or an ‘Indisch’ lower middle class?'
Willem Maas (York University Toronto): 'Chinese,
Dutch, or Indonesian? Ethnic Chinese ‘Foreign
Orientals’ Negotiating Nationality upon Indonesian
Independence'
Lunch
Guno Jones (VU): Dutch Nationality issues and
decolonisation
Thomas Lindblad (Leiden): Dutch business and
Indonesian decolonisation
10.15-10.45
10.45-11.15
11.15-11.45
11.45-12.15
12.15-13.00
13.00-13.30
13.30-14.00
14.00-14.30
14.30-15.00
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.00
16.00-16.30
Aniek Smit (Leiden): “It’s Bobby from Bandung”:
Reversing the Postcolonial Bonus for Dutch
Expatriates in Present-Day Indonesia
Susan Legêne (VU): Representations of ‘Indo’
women.
Break: coffee/tea
Elleke Boehmer (Oxford): British (post) colonial
literature
Jacqueline Knörr (Max Planck Institute):
Creolization in colonial Batavia: Betawi,
Peranakan, Indo. 16.30-17.00
17.00-18.30
Ca. 18.30
Vincent Houben (Humboldt University Berlin):
'Some reflections on Eurasianism in the light of
comparative and entangled history'
Drinks
Dinner
Commentator
Bart Luttikhuis
(European University
Institute Florence)
Liz Buettner (UVA)
Elleke Boehmer
(Oxford)
Sarah Klerks (Indisch
3.0)
Jacqueline Knörr (Max
Planck Institute)
Willem Maas (York
University Toronto)
Vincent Houben
(Humboldt University
Berlin)
Carolien Stolte (Leiden)
Saskia Bonjour
(Leiden)
Jennifer Yee
(Oxford)
Kirsten Vos (Indisch
3.0)
Susan Legêne (VU)