Symposium:
Paradigms for a Nomadic Mode of Living: Tenets and perils of coexistence
30.11.–02.12.2007
Venue: Leucorea, Collegienstr. 62, 06886 Wittenberg, Audi-Max
Date: November 30th - December 2nd, 2007
Programme
Programme
November 30th, 2007
Leucorea, Collegienstr. 62, 06886 Wittenberg, Audi-Max
| The Politics of Resources: Strategies of Access and Exploitation |
2.00 p.m. | Opening and Chair: Jörg Gertel (Leipzig) |
2.10 p.m. | Leif Manger (Bergen) Livestock, Land and Weapons: Understanding Resource-Based Conflicts between Agro-Pastoral Groups in Western Sudan |
2.50 p.m. | Fred Zaal (Amsterdam) Co-Management Conflicts: Institutional Conflict over Key Wetland and Forest Resources in a Pastoral Community, Kenya |
3.30 p.m. | Melvyn C. Goldstein (Cleveland) Changing Patterns of Resource Use and Pastoral Management in Western Tibet over the Past Half Century: A Case Study of the Nomads of Phala |
4.10 p.m.
| Coffee break
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4.25 p.m. | Sören Stark (Halle) Resource Exploitation and Settlement Dynamics in High Mountain Areas: The Case of Medieval Ustrushana, Northern Tajikistan |
5.05 p.m. | Wolfgang Holzwarth (Halle) Central Asian Sheep and Russian Railways: Expanding Eurasian Lamb-Skin and Meat Markets in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries |
5.45 p.m. | Ingo Breuer, Andreas Gruschke (Leipzig) Pastoral Resources in Morocco and Tibet: Local Livelihoods in Global Contexts |
6.25 p.m.
| Break
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6.30 p.m. | Ecological Perspectives: Benno Pilardeaux (Berlin) Climate Change and New Security Risks in Drylands |
7.30 p.m.
| Dinner
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December 1st, 2007
Leucorea, Collegienstr. 62, 06886 Wittenberg, Audi-Max
| Imposed Rules, Administered Interests: Intersections between the Two Spheres
Chair: Kurt Franz (Halle) |
8.30 a.m. | Françoise Métral (Lyon) The Contrôle bédouin in Mandatory Syria |
9.10 a.m. | Brit Kärger (Leipzig) Imposition of Political Interests, Trials of Control: Numhâ and Yamūt-ba’al under the Influence of the Mariote, Assyrian and Other Local Kingdoms |
9.50 a.m. | Thomas Brüggemann (Halle) Nomads under Control? Settlement Policy and Nomadic Response in the Byzantine Empire |
10.30 a.m.
| Coffee break
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10.45 a.m. | Kurt Franz (Halle) Ambiguities of Arbitration between Autonomous Tribes and Suzerain State: The Ayyubid and Mamluk Experience |
11.25 a.m. | Sebastian Maisel (Allendale, Mich.) Who is Right? Legal Transformations within the Saudi Arabian Tribal Community |
12.05 p.m. | Svetlana Jacquesson (Halle) Nomad–State Relations in the Tian Shan Mountain Region and the Kyrgyz Population, Late 19th to 20th century |
1.00 p.m.
| Lunch
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| Shared Space, Divided Territories: The Appropriation and Organization of Spaces Chair: Stefan R. Hauser (Halle) |
2.30 p.m. | Ian Straughn (Providence, R.I.) Contingent Spatialities and Imperial Immaturities: Landscape Practices of the Umayyad Dynasty in Greater Syria |
3.10 p.m. | David Durand-Guédy (Paris/Tehran) Where Did the Saljuqs Live? The Example of Sultan Mas‘ūd b. Muḥammad (1134–1152) |
3.50 p.m. | Andreea Bretan (Leipzig) Constructed Spaces, Contested Meanings: The Syrian Steppe, the Bedouins and the Development Discourse |
4.30 p.m.
| Coffee break
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4.45 p.m. | Guma Kunda Komey Kola (Halle/Khartoum) Autochthonous Land Claims and Counter-Claims in the Relations of the Sedentary Nuba and the Nomadic Baqqara of the Nuba Mountains, Sudan |
5.25 p.m. | Kyrill Istomin, Joachim Otto Habeck (Halle) Spatial Cognition and Orientation among Noymadic and Settled Groups in the Tundras of Northern Russia |
6.05 p.m. | Beate Pongratz-Leisten (Princeton) Mental Maps |
7.30 p.m.
| Dinner
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December 2nd, 2007
Leucorea, Collegienstr. 62, 06886 Wittenberg, Audi-Max
| Mental Representations: Myths, Discourse, Encounters
Chair: Stefan Leder (Halle) |
8.30 a.m. | Beate Eschment (Halle) Neither Barbarians nor Noble Savages: The Russian View on the Kazakhs of the Empire |
9.10 a.m. | Thomas Barfield (Boston) Contrasting the State-Building Capacity of Nomads in the Near East and Inner Asia: Hierarchical versus Egalitarian Tribal Ideologies in Establishing Political Leadership and Dynastic Rule |
9.50 a.m. | Alexander Diener (Malibu) Hybridity in the Mongolian Steppe: Modernization, Nationalization and the Changing Role of Nomadic Tradition |
10.30 a.m.
| Coffee break
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10.40 a.m. | Ute Pietruschka (Halle) Gog and Magog: Reflections of Nomadic Incursions in the Syriac Literature |
11.25 a.m. | Sarga Moussa (Lyon) Le mythe des Bédouins à l’aube du XIXe siècle: L'exemple de Dom Rafaël de Monachis |
12.05 p.m. | Alexander Weiß (Leipzig), Stefan Leder (Beirut/Halle) Myths of Nomads and their Use: Two Cases in Trans-Cultural Perspective |
1.00 p.m.
| Lunch
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