Towards a Global History of Development-Interweaving Culture, Politics, Science and the Economy of Aid

Programm

Welcome Reception
(for Speakers only)

Keynote 1
Develop Man! - Development? The Confrontation over Development in the 1960s and 1970s
(Michael Geyer, Chicago/USA)

Session 1: Moving People I
(Focus on global experts and their networks in development)
Esther Helena Arens (Bonn): In the Field of Translation: West German Politicians, Diplomats and Experts Facing Indonesia in the 1960s / Katja Füllberg-Stolberg (Hamburg): Prominent Nazis as Development Aid Volunteers and Political Advisors in Post-Colonial Ghana / Thomas Hüsken, (Bayreuth): Hybrid Experts. Myths and Realities about Development Experts / Stephan Malinowski (Berlin): Shock Troops of Modernization? Military Violence and Modernization Programs during the Algerian War 1954-1962
(Commentary: Kapepwa Tambila, Dar es Salaam/Tanzania)

Session 2: Moving People II
(Focus on global connections with respect to migration and grass-root movements)
Young-sun Hong (New York/USA): Gender and Race of Uneven Development and Global Migration: Asian Drama in West Germany / Annette Skovsted Hansen (Aarhus/Denmark): Developing Global Networks. Personal Ties Financed by Japanese and Danish Foreign Aid, 1947-2007 / Konrad Kuhn (Zürich/Switzerland): Unity of Liberation Struggle All Over the World - Development Policy and International Solidarity Movement in Western Europe
(Commentary: Gesine Krüger, Zürich/Switzerland)

Session 3: Connected Countries I
(Focus on national experiences of the global development endeavour)
Marc Dierikx (The Hague/Netherlands): Between Aid and Trade: Dutch Development Policy, 1949-1973 / Lukas Zürcher (Zürich/Switzerland): „We Have a Special Role to Play“. Swissness and Swiss Aid in International Development Cooperation in the 1960s and 1970s / Gökser Gökçay (Izmir/Turkey): A Multidimensional Approach to Turkey’s Foreign Aid Experience in the Post-War Period / Miriam Limoeiro Cardoso (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil): The Ideology of Development in Brazil
(Commentary: David Engerman, Waltham/USA)

Keynote 2
Colonialism, Development and the League of Nations
(Anthony Anghie, Salt Lake City/USA)

Session 4: Connected Countries II
(Focus on the interplay between nations and international agencies)
Gregory R. Witkowski (Muncie/USA): Giving, Peace, and Change: Creating Peace Cultures through Charity and Aid / Daniel Maul (Giessen): The ILO and Development / Corinna Unger (Washington/USA): American Foundations in India and the Modernization of Indian Agriculture, 1950 to 1975
(Commentary: Andreas Eckert, Berlin)

Keynote 3
National Poverty, Global Poverty, and Neoliberalism
(Akhil Gupta, Los Angeles/USA)

Session 5: Topics and Flows I
Philipp H. Lepenies (Frankfurt-Main): Dichotomies and Development. An Inquiry into the Roots of the Modern Concept of Development / Niels P. Petersson (Konstanz): Time and Development - Great Leaps Forward and Natural Evolutions / Hubertus Büschel (Potsdam): Help and Self-Help. A Global Principle of „Development“ in African Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
(Commentary: Aram Ziai, Vienna/Austria)

Session 6: Topics and Flows II
(Focus on attempts to dynamize markets and to incite innovation)
Martin Rempe (Berlin): The Reform of the Senegalese Groundnut Economy in the Sixties. Colonial Aftermath and the Culture of Co-operation / Patrick Neveling (Bern/Switzerland): Export Processing Zones within the Project of Development: A Theoretical and Empirical Re-evaluation / Daniel Speich (Zürich/Switzerland): Views from Lake Success. Technical Assistance, the United Nations, and the Economy as Artefact
(Commentary: Richard Rottenburg, Halle-Wittenberg)

Session 7: Topics and Flows III
(Focus on the interconnections between population, food and agriculture)
Marc Frey (Bremen): Population and Development: Notes on the Evolution of a Global Discourse in the Post-War Period / Perrin Selcer (Pennsylvania/USA): Men Against the Desert. Arid Lands Research and the Growth of Development, 1948 to 1964 / Harro Maat (Wageningen/Netherlands): Development and Food Security: The Prolongation of a Colonial Debate
(Commentary: Anja Kruke, Bonn)

Final Comments
(Andreas Eckert, Berlin; Richard Rottenburg, Halle-Wittenberg)

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