Schedule

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 India

Yun-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 Myanmar

Saumya 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 Indochina

Thanyarat Apiwong (SOAS)
Legal Status of British Burmese Subjects in the Northern Siam During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Guo-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