Preliminary Programme

Showing: Global History (all days)
Wed 24 March
    11.00 - 12.15
    12.30 - 13.45
    14.30 - 15.45
    16.00 - 17.15

Thu 25 March
    11.00 - 12.15
    12.30 - 13.45
    14.30 - 15.45
    16.00 - 17.15

Fri 26 March
    11.00 - 12.15
    12.30 - 13.45
    14.30 - 15.45
    16.00 - 17.15

Sat 27 March
    11.00 - 12.15
    12.30 - 13.45
    14.30 - 15.45
    16.00 - 17.00

All days
Wednesday 24 March 2021 12.30 - 13.45
H-2 WOR09 Transnational Networks and Foreign Investment in 19th-century Southern Europe
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Network: Global History Chair: Juan Pan-Montojo
Organizers: Juan Pan-Montojo, Juan-Luis Simal Discussant: Korinna Schönhärl
Houssine Alloul : Wavering Representatives of the Nation: Reading Consular Lives in an Age of Capitalist Globalization
Darina Martykanova : Building Infrastructures in the Mediterranean: Global Engineers at the Service of French Companies (1860s-1920s)
Juan-Luis Simal : The Financial and Political Networks of British Bondholders and Activists: 1820-1840



Wednesday 24 March 2021 14.30 - 15.45
H-3 WOR03 Entangled Gazes, Diverse Struggles: Exiles in America and Europe
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Network: Global History Chair: Holger Weiss
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Dolores Augustine : Peaceful Networking against Franco: Attempts of Exiled Spanish Anarchists to Form Alliances
José M. Faraldo : Transnational Experiences. Spanish Communists in the Popular Democracies of Central Europe
Carolina Rodríguez-López : Academic Exile: Fernando de los Ríos y Alfredo Mendizabal and the New School for Social Research



Wednesday 24 March 2021 16.00 - 17.15
H-4 WOR02 Comparing Narratives: Terrorism Representations and the 'Historical Continuities' Hypothesis
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Network: Global History Chair: Marcello Mollica
Organizers: Andrea Francioni, Federica Guazzini Discussant: Marcello Mollica
Alessandra Cappelletti : The Official Discourse on "Terrorism" as a Way to cope with Political Struggle and Maintain the Status Quo: the Case of "Uyghur Terrorists" in China
Andrea Francioni : British Narratives of Terrorism in India: the Colonial Discourse on Political Violence in the Interwar Years
Federica Guazzini : Shiftaism in Eritrea under British Administration: Competing Narratives of Political Violence and Counter-Terrorism
Lara Semboloni : Terrorism, a Concept under Construction: the Use of the Term in Mexican Congressional Debates in the First Half of the XX Century



Thursday 25 March 2021 14.30 - 15.45
V-7 WOR11 Anarchism, Anti-colonialism, Post-socialism
V
Network: Global History Chair: Holger Weiss
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jonathan Hyslop : East Germans in the Angolan War 1975-1989: Anti-Fascist Tradition or Realpolitik?
Ole Birk Laursen : The International Working Men’s Association, Anticolonialism, and the Indian Anarchists in Berlin, 1922-1933
Miguel Morán Pallarés : Anarchism and Political Violence in Western Europe (1960-1980). Between Change and Continuity



Friday 26 March 2021 11.00 - 12.15
U-9 WOR05 Global Concepts and Local Contestations: Discussing “Democracy”, “Rights” and “Crisis” in 20th-21st Century Politics
U
Network: Global History Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizer: Monica Quirico Discussants: -
Yulia Gradskova : Women’s International Democratic Federation: Inspiring the Third World’s Women with Achievements of the Soviet Emancipation
Valur Ingimundarson : Societal Reckoning and National Rebranding: Iceland’s Financial Crisis in a Global Context
Monica Quirico : Democracy in the Shadow of Hate: Freedom of Expression and Anti-discrimination Struggle in Northern Europe



Saturday 27 March 2021 12.30 - 13.45
A-14 WOR01 The Brokers of Globalization: Business Internationalism in the Twentieth Century
A
Network: Global History Chair: Matthias Middell
Organizers: Thomas David, Glenda Sluga Discussant: Madeleine Herren-Oesch
Thomas David : The Role of the International Chamber of Commerce in East-West Economic Relations during the Cold War
Madeleine Dungy : The International Chamber of Commerce and Trade Politics in the League of Nations
Glenda Sluga : Economic Actors, the International Chamber of Commerce, and the UN Human Environment Conference, 1969-1972


H-14 WOR07 US 'Unofficial Diplomacy' in the Asia-Pacific during the Cold War
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Network: Global History Chair: Albertine Bloemendal
Organizer: Giles Scott-Smith Discussant: Alanna O'Malley
Oliver Elliott : Journalists and the Human Rights Revolution in American Diplomacy
Andrew Gawthorpe : Diplomats, Missionaries, or Con-men? American Nation-builders in South Vietnam
Giles Scott-Smith : Ivan Kats, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and the Obor Foundation: Sketching the Trajectory of a Cold War Cultural Diplomat


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