The Parlour, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Monday 9 June 2014, 10.00am — 5.00pm
10:00—11:00
Opening Remarks
Natasha Pairaudeau (Cambridge)
Session I: Legal Evolutions
Chair: William O'Reilly (Cambridge)Julia Stephens (Cambridge)
Historicizing Personal Law in British IndiaYun-Ru Chen (Harvard)
The Making of Market/Family Legal Distinction in the Oriental Empire: The Germany-Japan-Taiwan Trilogy
11:00—11:15
Coffee Break
11:15—12:15
Session II: Legal Legacies
Chair: Rohit De (Cambridge)Judith Beyer (Martin Luther Universität Halle)
Traces of the Colonial in Contemporary Practices. Personal Status Laws and their Repercussions among Religious Minorities in MyanmarSaumya Saxena (Cambridge)
Cultural Identities and Social Justice: Gender and the Politics of Personal Law in Post-Independence India
12:30—14:00
Lunch in the Centre, Half Moon Yard
14:00—15:45
Session III: Indigenous Agency
Chair: Tim Harper (Cambridge)Natasha Pairaudeau (Cambridge)
The Shaping and Deployment of Personal Status in French India and IndochinaThanyarat Apiwong (SOAS)
Legal Status of British Burmese Subjects in the Northern Siam During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesGuo-Quan Seng (Chicago)
Of Widows and Daughters: Kapitan Cultural Brokerage and the Creolized Legal-Ritual Order of Chinese Patrilineal Succession in 19th Century Colonial Java
15:45—16:00
Tea Break
16:00—17:00
Round Table
Moderators: Natasha Pairaudeau, Tim Harper