28 June 2022

09:00–17:20 CET Introduction

SESSION 1: THE POLITICS OF FLYING

Maria Lucenti: Flying to Conquer: The Representation of Flight in Italian Textbooks (1930–1945)

Jessica Lynne Pearson: Colonial Reform in Flight: the Politics of Air Travel at the End of Empire

Kaori Takada: Okinawa Tourism from the Beginning of the Jet Age

SESSION 2: CONTROLLING KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sabrina Lausen: ‘Human Factors’ in the Global South: Technology Transfer and the Concepts of Man and Machine

Jiakai Jeremy Chua: Defying the Gravity of ‘Dominant Parent’ Sino-Foreign JVs: Nationalist Leadership and Control of Eurasia Aviation Corporation, 1931–1943

Peter Svik: Soviet Bloc Aviation Assistance to the Countries of Global South and why it Failed

KEYNOTE

David Edgerton: ‘The Supremacy of Uruguay’: Thinking with the Periphery as Method

SESSION 3: AIRLINES AND NATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIES

Melina Piglia: Commercial Aviation, Modernization, Development and Nationalism in an Authoritarian Context: Aerolineas Argentinas During the Dictatorship of 1966–1973

Phil Tiemeyer: Striving to Rewrite the Cartography of Colonialism: Air Jamaica’s Founding and Premature Failure, 1961–1980

29 June 2022

11:30–20:00 CET

SESSION 4: GOVERNMENTALITY AND AVIATION IN SOUTH ASIA

Joppan George: Gujranwala, 14 April 1919: Terror from the Air and Airmindedness

Aashique Ahmed Iqbal: The Aeroplane in the Partition of India and Pakistan

Waqar H. Zaidi: US-British Rivalry and the Reconstruction of Pakistani Aviation during the Cold War, 1945–1960

SESSION 5: AIRPLANES AND MARKETS

Marie Huber: The Social Life of Planes: How the First African-owned Jets Shaped Postcolonial Air Transport

Tobias Alexander Jopp, Mark Spoerer: Civil Aircraft Procurement and Colonial Ties: Which Wide-body Jets were Chosen by Airlines in the Global South, and Why?

Guillaume de Syon: A Colonial Concorde: Relying on past Empires to Build a Supersonic Network

SESSION 6: MOBILITY AND TERRITORY

Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş: Flight Routes to Asylum?: Refugees from the Global South, Social Class, and the Changing Costs of Air Travel

John D. Wong: Formulating Southeast Asia in the Sky: Reconfiguring Nanyang through Commercial Aviation in the Age of Decolonization, 1940s–1960s

Andreas Greiner: Cleared to Land: Pan American Airways’ Airfields as Imperial ‘Contact Zones’

FINAL DISCUSSION