Schedule
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Room 202, 61 Kirkland Street
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Emma Rothschild, Harvard University
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Session 1: (Post)colonial Movements
Commentator: Paul Warde, University of East Anglia
Marian Aguiar, Carnegie Mellon University
"Technology, Culture and India's Decolonization"
Sakura Christmas, Harvard University
"Lines in the Sky: Aerial Territoriality, Mobility, and Photography in Inner Asia"
Stéphanie Ponsavady, Wesleyan University
"From Desire to Drive: Colonial Automobilities in French Indochina"
Friday, April 25, 2014
Room S030, Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast
9:00 – 10:20 a.m.
Session 2: Travel Disrupted
Commentator: Clapperton Chakanestsa Mavhunga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jakobina Arch, Harvard University
"Facing the Stormy Pacific: Shipwrecks, Castaways and the Boundaries of Early Modern Japan"
Quentin (Trais) Pearson, Cornell University
"Transport Tort: Loss of Life & Limb on the Tracks of the Bangkok Tramway Company (c. 1887-1897)"
10:20 – 10:40 a.m.
Tea Break
10:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Session 3: Transport Infrastructures
Commentator: Tim Cresswell, Northeastern University
Chihyung Jeon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
"Dams and Bikes: The Four Rivers Bikeway and Contested Mobilities in South Korea"
Elisabeth Köll, Harvard Business School
"Chinese Railroads as Economic and Social Infrastructure during Wartime"
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Session 4: Motorized Mobility
Commentator: Emma Rothschild, Harvard University
Tarini Bedi, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Motoring, Materiality, and Policing Mobility in Bombay/Mumbai's Taxi Trade"
Trent Maxey, Amherst College
"Constructing Automobility in Modern Japan: A Prelegomenon"
Victor Seow, Harvard University
"Socialist Drive: Automotives in the Early People's Republic of China"
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Tea Break
3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
Closing Discussion