Preliminary Programme

Showing: World History (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
W-1 MAT03 Global Luxury Commodities: Production, Exchange, Consumption and Valuation
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , World History Chair: Beverly Lemire
Organizer: Karin Hofmeester Discussant: Beverly Lemire
Bernd Stephan Grewe : Towards a Global History of Luxury: Transcultural and Decentered Perspectives on a Global Phenomenon
Karin Hofmeester : Diamonds: a Global Luxury Commodity Shaping Global Connections
Karin Pallaver : "The Mysterious End of the World in Which Beads are Found under Ground": Venetian Glass Beads in 19th-Century East Africa
Giorgio Riello : From Luxury to Fashionable Necessity: The Success of Cotton Textiles in the First Global Age



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
A-2 WOR16 Transnational Social History
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Florencia Peyrou
Organizer: Florencia Peyrou Discussants: -
Olavi Fält : Global and Networked Science: Yokohama as a Stage for Western Science in the World during the Early 1870s
Hugo García : Anti-fascism as a Transnational Culture: the Case of Spain during the 1930s
Juan Luis Simal : Exile and Transnational History, 1775-1848.
Mercedes Yusta : The Unión de Mujeres Españolas and the Women International Democratic Federation: Transnational Women’s Activism in the Struggle against Francoism


G-2 ECO01 GDP, Sustainability, Well-Being, and Clio Infra: A Long-Term Economic Historical Perspective
Hörsaal 23 first floor
Networks: Economic History , World History Chair: Jan Luiten van Zanden
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jutta Bolt : Comparing Current and Constant GDP Series across Time and Space: Presenting a Historical Dataset on Nominal GDP for a Global Set of Countries
Kees Klein Goldewijk : Environmental Sustainability Indicators over the Past 500 Years



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
A-3 WOR01a Anarchists, Marxists, and Nationalists in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870s-1940s: Antagonisms, Solidarities, and Syntheses I
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Lucien van der Walt
Organizers: Steven Hirsch, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Lucien van der Walt
Anthony Gorman : United in Anti-imperialism: Coordination, Cooperation and Conflict between Anarchists and Nationalists in Egypt 1907-1922
Dongyoun Hwang : Korean Anarchists and the Question of the National United Front in 1930s-40s China
Tom Marling : Too Peaceful, Too Constructive: A Contextualised Approach to Anarcho-syndicalism in the Chinese Labour Movement 1918-1922


I-3 LAB01a A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Change across Eurasia, 1840–1940 I
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour , Social Inequality , World History Chair: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Erik Buyst : Changing Occupational Structure and the Industrial Revolution in Belgium, 1846-1910
Dimitrios Kopanas, Leda Papastefenaki : Occupational and Structural Change in Greece, 1840 – 1940, A Gender Perspective
Alexis Litvine : Assessing Changes in the Occupational Structure of France during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
A-4 WOR01b Anarchists, Marxists, and Nationalists in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870s-1940s: Antagonisms, Solidarities, and Syntheses II
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Steven Hirsch
Organizers: Steven Hirsch, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Steven Hirsch
Ole Birk Laursen : South Asian Anarchism in Britain: Anarchism, National Liberation and Anti-colonial Resistances
David Struthers : The Baja Raids: International Solidarity and Imperial Contradiction in the Cosmopolitan U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1910-1912
Lucien van der Walt : "One Great Union of Skilled and Unskilled Workers, South of the Zambezi": Garveyism, Liberalism and Revolutionary Syndicalism in the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa, 1919-1949


I-4 LAB01b A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Change Across Eurasia, 1840–1940 II
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour , Social Inequality , World History Chair: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
M. Erdem Kabadayi, Esin Uyar & Berkay Kucukbaslar : Occupational and Structural Change from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
Gijs Kessler, Timur Valetov : Occupational Change and Industrialization: from Russia to the Soviet Union (1897-1959)
Osamu Saito, Yoshifumi Usami : Changing Composition of the Workforce in British India, 1881-1931: with Special Reference to the Relationship between Principal and Subsidiary Occupations
Tokihiko Settsu, Osamu Saito : Changing Occupational Structure and Sectoral Labour Productivity Differentials in Japan’s Economic Growth before World War II



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
A-5 WOR04 Early Modern Intercultural Diplomacy: Comparative Approaches vs. East-West(-phalian) Dichotomies
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Peer Vries
Organizer: Birgit Tremml Discussant: Marjolein 't Hart
Leonard Blusse : Diplomacy in Action: the Kingdom of Ba and its Neighbors in the Eighteenth Century
Carl Fredrik Feddersen : Pragmatics of VOC Intercultural Diplomacy in Makassar
Manya Rathore : Ports of collaboration and conflict: Mughal - Portuguese negotiations in Gujarat and Konkan (1570-1605)
Birgit Tremml : Diplomacy without a Strong State? A Survey of Local Diplomatic Actors in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries-China Seas



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
A-6 WOR05 Global Commodity Chains
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizers: Karin Fischer, Frank Meyer Discussants: -
Anne Dietrich : How do States Fit into Commodity Chains? The GDR’s Import Trade with Coffee, Cane Sugar and Tropical Fruits
Karin Fischer, Rudy Weissenbacher : Unequal Exchange - the Dirty Little Secret in Commodity Chain Research
Johannes Knierzinger : African Bauxite Mining for European Industries
Frank Meyer : Man, Multinationals and Environment: the Cases of Porto Trombetás (Brazil), Årdal (Norway), and Mesaaid (Qatar) in the Global Aluminum Chain. A View from Below



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
A-7 WOR06 Cultures of Time in World History, 1760-1830
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: David Lindenfeld
Organizer: Ulrike Kirchberger Discussants: -
Milinda Banerjee : Time of Gods, Time of Men: South Asian Temporalities and Transnational Early Modern Connections, ca. 1760-1830
Mandy Izadi : Payne’s War, 1812-1814: A Study of Black-Indian Politics in the Circum-Caribbean
Ulrike Kirchberger : Cultures of Time in the Atlantic World, 1760-1830



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
A-9 WOR08 Railway Towns as Portals of Globalization
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Geert Castryck
Organizer: Geert Castryck Discussant: Matthias Middell
Sofie Boonen, Johan Lagae : A City Constructed by “des gens d’ailleurs”. Urban Development and Migration Policies in Colonial Lubumbashi, 1910-1930
Jonathan Hyslop : Durban in the Global Coal-Energy System: Mines, Railways, Docks, and Stokeholds in the Empire of Otto Siedle’s Natal Direct Line, 1889-1919.
Jamie Monson : Making Globalization Work: Railway Porters at Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia
Nitin Sinha : The imperial/global ‘connectedness’ of the small railway town of Jamalpur, India, 1860s-1880s



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
A-10 WOR09 Religion, Creolization and Ambivalence in the 18th Century Atlantic World
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Holger Weiss
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anders Ahlbäck : The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C.G.A. Oldendorp’s Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Caribbean
Laura Hollsten : Quaker Networks in Eighteenth Century Tortola
Louise Sebro : Creolization: Strategy or Fate
Gunvor Simonsen : Finding a Place in the Atlantic World: the Case of Christian Protten and Frederik Svane



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
A-11 WOR10 Tangible Internationalism' between the World Wars
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Daniel Roger Maul
Organizers: Daniel Roger Maul, Katharina Rietzler Discussants: -
Valeska Huber : Libraries or Language Charts? Inter-War Internationalism and the Tension between Elite and Mass Education
Vincent Lagendijk : “Between a Hub and Hubris: the League of Nations as a Node in Scientification and Europeanisation.”
Daniel Laqua : From the Lecture Theatre to the League: Student Internationalism Between the Wars
Katharina Rietzler : Reconstructing Central Europe's Mandarins: American Relief for University Professors in the Aftermath of the Great War


D-11 AFR05 Political Economy and Social Conflict in Global and Transnational Perspective
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Africa , Economic History , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , World History Chair: Massimo Zaccaria
Organizers: - Discussant: Hanan Sabea
Luca Ciabarri : War and the Shaping of the Extraverted Society. Globalization in Somali-lands and Local-level Transformations in the New State of Somaliland
Sophia du Plessis, Stan du Plessis : Which comes First: Good Governance or Prosperity? A Case Study from the South African Republic and the Orange Free State
Giulia Meloni, Johan Swinnen : The Rise and Fall of the World’s Largest Wine Exporter (And Its Institutional Legacy)



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
A-12 WOR11 Freemasonry as a World Historical Phenomenon
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paulo Henrique de Magalhaes Arruda : Hippolyto Joseph Da Costa (1772-1823): a Luso-Brazilian Man of Letters in English Freemasonry (1807-1823)
Bob James : Henry Melville & 19th C Masonic Dissent
David Lindenfeld : Some Prominent Indian Freemasons
Heather Morrison : Insubordination and Self-Reliance: the Effect of International Freemasonry on European Scientific Travellers



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
A-13 WOR15 Institutional Underpinnings of Cultural Globalization: Occupational Groups and their Strategies of Internationalization (1870s to 1920s)
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizers: Antje Dietze, Katja Naumann Discussant: Steffi Marung
Antje Dietze : Managers’ Organizations in the Commercial Theater Industries around 1900: Business Networks in Transnational Perspective
Katja Naumann : Institutional Footing of 19th Century Globalization: the Making of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Heidi Tworek : Reporting the World: Global News Networks, 1870-1939
Blaise Wilfert : Profession, Nation and the Market. The Inter-nationalisation of French Publishers during the Second Part of the 19th Century



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
A-14 WOR07 Meet the Author: Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa. Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, & the Globalization of the New South
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: David Lindenfeld
Organizers: - Discussants: Andreas Eckert, Erik Grimmer-Solem, Robert Norrell
Andrew Zimmerman : Alabama in Africa



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
A-15 WOR13 Elite Formation in Traditional Bureaucratic Empires
Hörsaal 07 raised ground floor
Network: World History Chair: Karen Turner
Organizers: - Discussant: Karen Turner
Peter Fibiger Bang : Elite Formation and the Virtuous Ruler in the Han Chinese and Roman Empires
Linda T. Darling : The Process of Elite Replacement in an Early Modern Bureaucratic Empire: Ottoman Military/Administrative Elite in an Era of Consolidation
Jacob Tullberg : Patrimonial and Prebendial Courtly Elites in Agrarianate Societies



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
Z-16 REL07 Transnationalism in Mission History
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Religion , World History Chair: Seija Jalagin
Organizers: Iris Busschers, Seija Jalagin Discussant: Seija Jalagin
Iris Busschers : Missionary Barend Schuurman and the (Trans)national in the Context of Dutch Calvinist Mission in East Java
Margo S. Gewurtz : Knowledge Transfer from China and London via Canada: Kala-azar in North Henan
Malin Gregersen : In the Palace of Fifth Lady Tso. Changsha YWCA and Scandinavian Missionary Networks in China during the Interwar Period
Maryse Kruithof : Interreligious Contacts and Religious Adaptation on Java, 1850-1920
Maria Småberg : On Mission in the Cosmopolitan Land. Alma Johansson and the Role of Transnational Humanitarian Networks in the Armenian Refugee Crisis, 1915-1940


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