– Vincent Houben and Mona Schrempf (16 pages)
 
Part 1: Colonial and Modern Spaces
Representations of Modernity in Colonial Indonesia
– Vincent Houben (15 pages)
 
Performing the Metropolitan habitus: Images of European modernity in cross-cultural encounters in nineteenth century Eastern Africa
– Michael Pesek (23 pages)
 
Part 2: Becoming Modern through Education
 Modern Indians: the Training of Indigenous Teachers in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
– Eugenia Roldán Vera (14 pages)
 
Representations of Modernization and Vocational Education in Argentina at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
– Verónica Oelsner (15 pages)
 
Part 3: Ethic and Ethnic Identities
 Modernity and the Problem of Secular Morality in Tibet – Vincanne Adams (23 pages)
 
Planning the Modern Tibetan Family in China
– Mona Schrempf (30 pages)
 
Part 4: Of Heritage and HeroesThe Modernity of Heritage: Visualizing the Past in a Nigerian City Kingdom[1]
– Peter Probst (23 pages)
 
Heroes in the Museum: Soviet Hero Constructions and Multiple Meanings of Modernity on the Soviet Periphery
– Olaf Guenther (14 pages)
 
 
 
[1]  Funding for research has come from the German Research Foundation (SFB 560-B4 & B7) and a 2006 FRAC research grant from Tufts University. I am grateful to the organizers and participants of the conference for their constructive critique and helpful comments.