International workshop: Transimperial Circulation of Colonial KnowledgeAmong the “Latecomer Empires” (19th-20th century) - Naples 4-5 September 2025

Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Largo San Marcellino 10, 3rd floor – room 2

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4 September 15:00

Chair: Gia Caglioti (Università di Napoli Federico II)

Ping-Heng Chen (Universität Heidelberg)

Unidirectional Appropriation? Trans-Imperial Exchange between Japanese Anthropologists and Their European and North American Counterparts

Victor Stoll (University of Cambridge)

‘Woe to you, that you were an Austrian’: Rudolf Pöch’s Transimperial Expedition to New Guinea (1904-1906)

5:00-5:30 pm coffee break

Chair: Andrea Revelant (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)

Moe Omiya (Universität Zürich)

Suppressed Admiration: Architects’ Engagements on the ‘German-Japanese’ Colonies

Florian Balbiani (Universität Erfurt)

A Transimperial History of African Language Studies in Germany, 1880s–1930s

5 September 9:00

Chair: Arlena Buelli (Université de Lausanne)

Bernhard Leitner (Medizinische Universitaet Wien)

Neurologically Speaking: Knowledge Production in Brain Research, Neurology and Psychiatry between Habsburg Austria, the Japanese Empire and Colonial Korea

Erik Grimmer-Solem (Wesleyan University)

Hermann Schumacher, Transimperial Economic Knowledge, and the Development of German Imperialism in Peace and War

11:00-11:30 am, coffee break

Chair: Olindo De Napoli (Università di Napoli Federico II)

Christian Via Balole (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Circulation transimpériale et justification légale du travail forcé dans l’État indépendant du Congo (1885-1908)

Elisabeth Bruyère (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Governing the Colony Outside the Constitution: Belgian Legal Culture in a Transimperial

Perspective

Discussants:

Marco M. Aterrano (Università di Napoli Federico II), Francesco Paolo Cioffo (Università Ca'

Foscari Venezia), Andrea D'Onofrio (Università di Napoli Federico II), Paolo Fonzi (Università di Napoli Federico II), Daniel Joseph MacArthur-Seal (Scuola Superiore Meridionale), Anna Nasser (Università di Napoli Federico II), Airton Ribeiro (Scuola Superiore Meridionale), Peter Vale (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)