3.12.
Keynote Speech
“They already exist ...“ - Do They? Conjuring Global Networks
(Madeleine Herren, Heidelberg)
4.12.
Panel One - National Perspectives on Transnational
Challenges
(Chair: Katja Naumann, Leipzig)
- Marco Platania (Frankfurt am Main): Thinking to the Nation in a Global
Perspective. From the „Free Trade Nation“ to the „Imperial
Nation-State“, and back: The Fortunes and Problems of a Long-Living
Pattern of Analysis
- James Casteel (Ottawa/Kanada): Exploring the Eastern Frontier of the
Global Economy: German Observers of the Colonization and Development of
Siberia 1905-1914
- Klaus Dittrich (Portsmouth): Appropriation, Representation and Cooperation
as Transnational Actions: The Example of Ferdinand Buisson
Panel Two - Global Institutions and Transnational Networks
(Chair: Monika Dommann, Basel)
- Guido Thiemeyer (Kassel): The Struggle for an International Bimetallic
Monetary Union 1878-1900 and its Failure
- Simone Müller (Berlin): Beyond the Nations State? Cable Agents and the
Global Media System on the North Atlantic, 1860-1915
- Tom Ewing: Connecting and Contesting the „Bonds of Empire“: The
Eurasian Telegraph as a Transnational Instrument of Colonial Control and
Political Mobilization
- Thies Schulze (Münster): Nationalism and the Catholic Church: Papal
Politics and „Nationalist“ Clergy in Border Regions
5.12.
Panel Three - Migration and the Nation State
(Chair: Antje Flüchter, Heidelberg)
- Roberto Julio Decker (Leeds/UK): Tests „found so valuable in Australia“:
White Settler Colonies and the Discourse on Immigration Restriction in the
United States
- Gijsbert Oonk (Rotterdam): Making States, Creating Strangers. Why Trading
Minorities Cannot Become Natives
Panel Four: National Traditions and Global Scientific
Communities
- Heather Ellis (Berlin): National or Transnational? University Networks
Between Britain and Germany in the 19th Century
- Jahnavi Phalkey (Heidelberg, London): British India, Imperial History and
its Global Scientific Communities
Concluding Remarks
(Peer Vries, Wien)