Image Credits: Collage of images from the ICRC Audiovisual Archives. The photos depict scenes of civilians in Japanese internment camps in Batavia (Djakarta) and Makasser, Indonesia, during World War II. © ICRC Archives (ARR).
International Conference: "War, Trade and the Divisive Power of Citizenship"
Divisive Power of Citizenship, one of our Institute’s SNSF-funded project, concluded this year with its closing international conference on 22/23 September 2022 in Basel, Switzerland. The event offered a broad platform for debate about citizenship in a global context, addressing scholars working in the fields of Global History, Asian Studies, International Law and Digital Humanities, at a time of terrifying topicality.
The central themes of discussion were expat communities in Asia, and civil internment camps during the Second World War in Asia, which had previously been rarely studied. An additional methodological component investigated the potential of digital methods in this field, which analysed the impact of access to precise data at scale relating to networks of foreign residents—addressing interferences with citizenship, statelessness and denaturalisation. The conference also saw the launch of new data resources which were created during the course of the project, covering Foreign Residents in East Asia between 1863 and 1941.
The individual panels promoted interdisciplinary exchange across disciplinary borders. Panel I on foreigner status focused on Expats, imperialists and victims: Citizenship during Transformation Periods; Panel II discussed sharing of primary sources and secure data preservation; Panel III addressed research into civilian internment camp records and introduced next-generation digital resources for historians; Panel IV investigated legal frameworks protecting civilians, with reference to their citizenship in relation to military conflict (e.g. enemy aliens).
Conference Program
Venue: Aula of the Natural History Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, 4051 Basel
| 16:00 – 17:15 | Keynote Daniel Kipfer Fasciati |
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| 17:15 – 17:45 | Launch |
Venue: Institute for European Global Studies, Riehenstrasse 154, 4058 Basel
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Morning Coffee |
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| 10:00 – 12:00 | Panel I Foreigners: Expats, Imperialists and Victims. Citizenship in Transformation Periods Chair: Madeleine Herren-Oesch (University of Basel) Citizenship in the Transformation of the Imperial/Colonial Border to the National Border Citizenship and Anticolonial Nationalism in the Interwar French Empire Teresa Pullano (University of Basel) |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Panel II Chair:Peter Cornwell (Institute of Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster) Hybrid Workflows for Extraction of Heterogeneous and Complex Sources Employing Neural Networks to Analyse Historical Printed Sources at Scale Dictionary-Based Parser Innovation for High-Precision Extraction Sacha Zala (Dodis, University of Bern) |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 16:15 | Panel III Introduction to Panel III: Publishing Data Resources for Long-Term Accessibility Chair: Christiane Sibille (ETH Zurich) Publishing Copyright-Free Taxonomic Treatments as New Resources for Biodiversity Research Building Research Data Preservation Infrastructure from FOSS Components Tim Smith (CERN, Geneva) |
| 14:00 – 16:15 | Panel IV Chair: Toshiki Mogami (International Christian University, Tokyo) The Situation of Japanese Immigrants in the U.S. during the Second World War Japanese Occupation and Civilian Internment Policy in East and Southeast Asia, 1941–1945 Protecting Civilians in Relation to Citizenship and Military Conflicts: A Historical Perspective regarding the XIX and XX Centuries of the French Empire Kim Wünschmann (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg) |
| 16:45 – 18:00 | Concluding Roundtable Discussion Chair:Toshiki Mogami (International Christian University, Tokyo)
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| 18:00 – 19:00 | Apéro riche |
Further Information & Downloads
Further Events
On September 9, 2022, the workshop "Citizen/Stateless Person/Cosmopolitan: Refugee Selfhood in Global Intellectual and Legal History" takes place in St Andrews. It is organized by Vienna University and the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St Andrews. You can find the program here.
