November 14-16, 2014: Kochi 1514 Cross-cultural Networks between Central Europe, South Asia and Beyond in the Early Modern Period
Friday, Nov 14
3.00 pm
Opening Remarks
Panel A.
3.30-4.30 pm
Kochi 1514 as a beginning? The Central Europeans and the
S. Bartholomew Chapel.
Gregor M. Metzig.
4.30-5.30 pm
Mission beyond Mission: Cross-Cultural Networks in Eighteenth-Century South India.
Keyvan Djahangiri.
5.30-6.00 pm Coffee Break
6.00-7.00 pm
Keynote Lecture: Trading Goods from Southern Germa- ny to India 1533.
Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Knabe
8.00 pm Dinner Restaurant Neumond
Saturday, Nov 15
9.00-10.00 am
The Lure of India. Was there an Exchange of Visual Arts between Europe and India? Sune Erik Schlitte
Balthazar Springer and the King of Cochin: Early Modern Encounters between India and Europe.
Sebastian R. Prange.
11.00-11.30 am Coffee Break
PANEL B.
11.30-12-30 pm
Jeremias van Fliet in Siam. The cultural transgressions of a Dutch merchant scholar.
Sven Trakulhun.
Bilateral or Global? ‘ Indiennes’ in Eighteenth-Century France. Felicia Gottmann.
1.30-3.00 pm Lunch Break
3.00-4.00 pm
The Columbian Exchange from the West to the East and the Dutch Trading Companies acting in early Globalization.
Tim Wätzold.
4.00-5.00 pm
A Spidery Web: Global textile connections of Eighteenth- Century Danish trade between India, Guinea and Europe.
Vibe Maria Martens.
5.00-5.30 pm Coffee Break
PANEL C.
5.30-6.30 pm
Eighteenth-Century Europe- an Polymaths interested in Asian Languages: tracing the influence of Leibniz‘ linguistic research program.
Toon van Hal.
Sunday, Nov 16
9.00-10.00 am
Zainudheen Maqdoom and Malabar‘s global connections in the Sixteenth Century.
Nuaiman Keeprath Andru.
10.00-11.00 am
Diamonds. Transcultural Values and Cross-Cultural Trade between India and Central Europe.
Kim Siebenhüner.
11.00-12.00 pm
‘All to use’. Circulation and presence of Indian goods in Central European Art, Science, and Culture. Marília dos Santos Lopes.
12.00-12.30 pm Coffee Break
12.30-13.30 pm
Concluding Remarks.