The UCI Center for Asian Studies, UCI History Department, and UC World History MRU present

“Hinterlands and Divergences in Asian History and World History”

Saturday, December 1, 2012
2:00-5:30 p.m.
Humanities Gateway, Room 1030

2:00-2:15
Welcoming Remarks by Anne Walthall, Director - Center for Asian Studies

2:15-3:15 Session 1: Hinterlands and Heartlands
"Conflict, Culture, and Community: Reforming the Village in Republican China," Kate Merkel-Hess, Penn State (UCI PhD)
"Hindutva Beyond the Borders: V.D. Savarkar on Geography, Mapping and Pan-Asianism," Vinayak Chaturvedi, UC Irvine

3:15- 4:15 Session 2: Convergences and Divergences
“Before the Opium War: Two British Invasions of Macao (1802 and 1808) and Their Impact on Sino-British Relations,” Wang Wensheng, University of Hawaii (UCI PhD)
"Indian Ocean *recueil*: Placing Stories in the Early-Modern World," Laura Mitchell, UC Irvine

Coffee Break, 4:15-4:30

Keynote Address and Q & A: 4:30 to 5:30
“What was the matter with Yun-Gui?  Mis-managing Migration and Making Ethnicities on Qing China’s Southwest Frontiers,” Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago

Reception in honor of Kenneth Pomeranz, 5:45 on the University Hills Community Center, at the intersection of Gabrielino and California

This event is sponsored by UCI Center for Asian Studies, UCI History Department, and UC World History MRU

For further information, please contact Marc Kanda mhkanda@uci.edu or 949-824-6522.