Preliminary Programme

Showing: World History (all days)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
V-1 WOR12 Transregional Encounters
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Felix Brahm : Moralizing and Controlling the African Arms Trade. On the (dis)Entanglement of Civil and Governmental Action, 1870s to 1900s
Megan Maruschke : Do Special Economic Zones have their Origins in Past Free Ports? A View from Mumbai, 1858 - today
Edgar Pereira, Kaarle Wirta : The Forgotten Emporia: Visions of Overseas Commerce and Transnational Connections in 17th-century Glückstadt (1617-1700)



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
V-4 WOR09 Maritime Areas: Spaces of Changing Expectations
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Rolf Petri
Organizers: Deborah Paci, Rolf Petri Discussant: Marta Grzechnik
Jussi Kurunmäki : Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Region in Quasi-Parliamentary Assemblies
Deborah Paci : From Isolation to Connectivity: the Views of European Union on Mediterranean and Baltic Islands in the 20th and 21th Century
Vasileios Petrogiannis : Layers of Spatial Identification: European Mobility from the Baltic and Mediterranean Regions to Sweden
José Damião Rodrigues : Widening the Ocean: Eastern Atlantic Islands in the Making of Early-Modern Atlantic


W-4 LAB07b Perfect Cosmopolitans. South-European Experiences and Approaches
Aula Ramon y Cajal, Nivel 1
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Bert Altena
Organizers: Bert Altena, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Steven Hirsch
Martin Baxmeyer : Una conquista libertaria? The Reinterpretation of the Spanish Colonization of Latin America in Anarchist Literature during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Daniel Evans : ‘España para los españoles’. 'National Anarchism’ and its Discontents during the Spanish Civil War
Davide Turcato : Anti-colonial Struggles in the Italian Anarchist Pres: Egypt, Cuba, India



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
A-5 ASI02 Networking for Survival: the East India Companies, Local Merchants, and State Actors in 17th-century Asia
Seminario A, Nivel 0
Networks: Asia , World History Chairs: -
Organizers: Aske Brock, Erik Odegard, Byapti Sur, Guido van Meersbergen Discussants: -
Aske Brock : Directorate Interlocks in the Formation of Networks in the EIC
Erik Odegard : The Company’s Marriage Market: Marriage, Patrimonialism, and Smuggling in the Dutch East India Company, c. 1630-1680
Byapti Sur : The Dutch East India Company through the Eyes of a Broker: Seventeenth Century Mercantile Relations in Bengal
Guido van Meersbergen : Imperial Patronage and Commercial Exchange: Company Agents and the 17th-century Mughal State


H-5 RUR13 Agriculture in Modern World History
Aula 5, Nivel 0
Networks: Rural , World History Chair: Juan Pan-Montojo
Organizer: Ray Hurt Discussant: Juan Pan-Montojo
Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto, Miguel Cabo, Bruno Esperante & Beatriz Corbacho : The New Genetics of ODH Maize from America to Europe (1918-1940)
Catherine Higgs : Historicizing South Africa's Green Revolution: Land Alienation and Land Reform, 1913-2013
Ray Hurt : The Green Revolution in Latin America: Success and Failure
Siming Wang : Growing in Declining and Declining in Growing. Chinese Agricultural Development since 16th Century


T-5 THE05 Theories of Revolution, Reform and Democracy – and the Writing of History
Salon de Grados, Nivel 1
Networks: Theory , World History Chair: Stefan Berger
Organizer: Norbert Fabian Discussant: Stefan Berger
Michael Onyebuchi Eze : The Crises of Democracy and the Politics of History in Contemporary Africa
Norbert Fabian : J.C. Davies’ Theory of Revolutions in History and Theory Discussions and in Didactics - a New J-curve to the English Revolution of 1381
Matthias Middell : The French Revolution - New Perspectives Emerging Since 1989
Dominic Sachsenmaier : Revolutions and Reforms in China


W-5 LAB07c Perfect Cosmopolitans. North-West Atlantic Anarchists and Colonialism
Aula Ramon y Cajal, Nivel 1
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Lucien van der Walt
Organizers: Bert Altena, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Lucien van der Walt
Bert Altena : English and Dutch Anarchists during the Boer War
Ole Birk Laursen : Guy Aldred and the Indian Nationalists in London
Kenyon Zimmer : Anti-Imperialism at War: the Anticolonial Roots of American Anarchist Debates Over World War I



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
D-8 WOR13 Situating transnational actors
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Network: World History Chair: Friederike Kind-Kovács
Organizers: Antje Dietze, Katja Naumann Discussants: -
Antje Dietze, Katja Naumann : 'Introduction: Transnational Actors - Research Perspectives'
Maciej Górny : A Racial Triangle: Physical Anthropology and Race Theories between Germans, Jews, and Poles
Katja Naumann, Antje Dietze : 'Introduction: Transnational Actors - Research Perspectives'
Clemens Six : In search of the transnational mind: Intellectuals and artists between Bengal and Tokyo around 1900
Phillip Wagner : National Socialist Internationalisms? Karl Strölin between international engagement and domestic lobbying, 1938-1945



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
W-9 WOR02 Distant Suffering: American Relief in Europe During and After the Great War
Aula Ramon y Cajal, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Holger Weiss
Organizers: Friederike Kind-Kovács, Elisabeth Piller Discussant: Kasper Braskén
Anca Cretu : “Negotiating” Humanitarianism: American Emergency Relief and Nation-Building in Romania (1918-1923)
Friederike Kind-Kovács : “From Food to Business: Children’s Hunger and American Relief in Hungary after the Great War”
Francesca Piana : American Medical Assistance during and in the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide: The case of Dr. Ruth A. Parmelee in Harpoot
Elisabeth Piller : For Love of the Fatherland – German-Americans, American Relief Work and Cultural Mobilization in the Era of the Great War, 1914 – 24



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
V-10 WOR10 Translators as Cultural Brokers: Cultural Mediation in the Peripheries
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Diana Roig Sanz
Organizer: Diana Roig Sanz Discussant: Ventsislav Ikoff
Yehua Chen : Shen Yanbing’s (1896-1981) Cultural Mediation Activities In The Construction Of New Chinese Literary Identity
Amotz Giladi : Hebrew Nationalism and the Import of Foreign Literatures: the Case of Yonatan Ratosh
Hanna Pieta : Translation of Polish literature into European Portuguese: Translators as Cultural Mediators
Serena Talento : Nyerere Translates Shakespeare in Post-colonial Tanzania: Translation as Legitimation of Swahili and Negotiation between Localism and Globalism



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
V-11 SPE01 Big Data in Economic and Social History: Global and Regional Perspectives
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Networks: Economic History , Labour , World History Chair: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Organizer: Gijs Kessler Discussant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Pim de Zwart, Jan Luiten van Zanden : "How was Life? Global Well Being since 1820"
Karin Hofmeester, Jan Lucassen : The Collab on Global Labour History, 1500-2000": Stock Taking Spring 2016
Gijs Kessler, Timur Valetov : Occupational Change in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1800-2000
Andrei Markevich : Economic Development of the Late Russian Empire in a Regional Perspective
Auke Rijpma : The Clariah-project and the Quantity-quality Tradeoff: Understanding Household Size and Investment in Human Capital through Big Data



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
W-12 WOR04 Building a Global Youth? Youth Groups in International Movements and Moments, 1919–1939
Aula Ramon y Cajal, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Georgina Brewis
Organizers: Joelle Droux, Daniel Laqua Discussant: Georgina Brewis
Joelle Droux : Youth Movements at the ILO: Collaboration and Influence during the Interwar Years
Timo Holste : Not of Concern to the League? Katharine Furse and the Humanitarian Work of the League of Nations, 1924–1938
Daniel Laqua : Consolidation or Transformation of the Global Order? International Student Organizations and Empire in Interwar Europe
Ondrej Matejka : Construction of an ‘Internationally-minded’ Youth in a Multi-ethnic State: YMCA Activities in Czechoslovakia, 1918 –1938



Saturday 2 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
W-13 WOR05 Roundtable: Global Microhistory
Aula Ramon y Cajal, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Dagmar Freist
Organizer: Dagmar Freist Discussants: -
Jessica Cronshagen : A Small, Hidden, Global Place: Living in Neu-Bambey. The Interaction of Two Multi-ethnic Groups in 18th-Century Suriname: Moravian Missionaries and Saramaccan Maroons (c.1770-1813)
Margaret Hunt : Deserters, Turncoats and Transnational Actors in the Military Labor Market of Early Modern South Asia
Lars Müller : Knowledges about Africa. Textbook Production: Authors and Practices



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
V-14 WOR11 Transnational Actors and Networks of the Trade Union Movement
Seminario E, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Stefan Mueller
Organizer: Johanna Wolf Discussant: Susan Zimmermann
Silke Neunsinger : The Long Walk to Wage Justice: Transnational Influences on Measuring, Defining, Standardizing Wages during Apartheid in South Africa
Steven Parfitt : The Knights of Labor as a Global Movement
Johanna Wolf : Introduction: the State of the Art on Transnational Actors in the Trade Union Movement
Adrian Zimmermann : Leading Trade Unions Nationally and Internationally: the Case of the Swiss General Secretaries of the International Metalworkers’ Union (IMF) Konrad Ilg and Adolphe Graedel


W-14 WOR06 Antifascism in a Global Perspective: Exile Communities and Transnational Movements against Fascism, 1930–1945
Aula Ramon y Cajal, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Holger Weiss
Organizer: Kasper Braskén Discussant: Hugo García
Kasper Braskén : The Anti-Fascist Networks of the German Political Exile: Paris and London as Global Hubs of Resistance, 1933–1940
Maria Framke : ‘India cannot stand aloof!': Exploring the Entangled Web of Indian Anti-fascism, Anti-colonialism and Humanitarian Solidarity in the Interwar Period
Chris Vials : The Influence of International Faschismustheorien in the United States of the 1930s



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
W-15 WOR08 Civilizing Missions during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Aula Ramon y Cajal, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Kerstin S. Jobst
Organizers: Ulrich Hofmeister, Stefan Hübner Discussant: Kerstin S. Jobst
Harald Fischer-Tiné : Civilizing the peasant: The American YMCA and “Rural Reconstruction” Schemes in South Asia and beyond (c.1920-1960)
Julia Hauser : Civilizing Appetites. Nineteenth-Century Vegetarian Discourse and the Civilizing Mission
Ulrich Hofmeister : The Allure of Backwardness: The Civilizing Mission in Tsarist Turkestan under Criticism
Stefan Hübner : Financing Fitness: American Philanthropy and the Scientification of the YMCA’s Physical Education Programs in East Asia (1910s-1920s)
Teresa Segura-Garcia : Princely Education and Colonial Improvement in Nineteenth Century India



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
W-16 WOR07 Educating for Citizenship and the Future of Colonialism: International, Imperial and Colonial Debates about Educational Reform during the First Decades of the Twentieth Century
Aula Ramon y Cajal, Nivel 1
Network: World History Chair: Noah Sobe
Organizers: Fiona Paisley, Noah Sobe Discussants: -
Joyce Goodman : Cultural Internationalism, Educational Cinematography and the Cosmopolitan Child who “understand[s] International Brotherhood” 1
Julie McLeod : Cosmopolitanism and Educability: Instructing Young People in the Aims of the League of Nations
Fiona Paisley : Education in the Mandates: the Permanent Mandates Commission in the 1920s and the Education of ‘Natives’
Rebecca Rogers : French Women Teachers and Indigenous Girl Students: Representing Colonial Education in World Fairs (1900s-1930s)


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