Thursday 1 August
2:15 – 2:45 Conference Registration and Coffee
2:45 – 3:00 Welcome and opening words: Simone Müller-Pohl (John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) & Heather Ellis (Liverpool Hope University).
3:00 – 5:00 Merchant Empires and Early Global Modernities
Chair: N.N.
Clemens Kaps (Universität Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla): A land-locked Empire in long-distance trade: Central European Merchants in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the second half of the 18th century and their political-transnational networks.
Magnus Ressel (University of Frankfurt): Networks and international trade of the German merchant community in18th century Venice.
Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf): Entangling the World: Early modern global networks of London-based German merchants.
Chris Ebert (Brooklyn College): Trans-Imperial and Trading Nodes in the South Atlantic, 1650-1750.
5:00 – 5:15 Coffee Break
5:15 – 6:00 Keynote: Emily Rosenberg (UC Irvine)
Friday 2 August
9:00 – 11:00 Immigrant Communities and Transnational Labor Politics
Chair: M. Michaela Hampf (Freie Universität Berlin)
Steffen Rimner (Harvard University): Counteracting Global Discrimination: The Role of the Chinese Diaspora, 1870-1945.
Kerstin Stubenvoll (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): What Communism is this, then, in the case of the Cameroonian workers? Colonialist policies and trade unionist efforts regarding independence and social and economic rights in French Cameroons.
Stephen Fender (University of Hamburg): Urban Labor and the Process of Globalization in Mexico City.
Jeff Fear (University of Redlands): German Immigrant Entrepreneurs
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 1:15 Scholars and Students in Global Perspective
Chair: Heather Ellis (Liverpool Hope University)
Tomás Irish (Dublin): Academic Networks and the Pursuit of Peace: The Paris Peace Conference, 1919.
Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus (FU Berlin): Entangled Asia: Korean Students and Regional Consciousness in Japan, 1880-1920.
Michael Tworek (Harvard): The Ultimate Networker: Jan Zamoyski, Study Abroad, and Humanist Learned Circles in Early Modern Europe.
1:15 – 2:15 Lunch Break
2:15 – 4:15 The National and the Transnational in Identity Formation
Chair: Heidi Tworek (Harvard University)
Christof Jeggle (University of Bamberg): Actor-Networks, Nations, and Markets: The Construction of Identities of Merchants in 17th Century Transalpine Commerce.
Klaus Dittrich (Korea University): Educating the Children of the European and American Community in Korea, 1880s-1940s
Christoph Kamissek (University of Rostock): From Military Internationalism to Imperial Militarism: Three Generations of German Officers and their Visions of Nation and Empire (1800-1890).
Marta Cieslak (SUNY at Buffalo): Crossing the Boundaries of Modernity: Nationalism, Imperialism and the Transatlantic Journey of Polish Peasants
4:15 – 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 – 6:30 Global Corporate Identities
Chair: Laura Rischbieter (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Hagen Schulz-Forberg (Aarhus University): Rejuvenating Liberalism: Economic Thought, Social Imagination and the Invention of Neoliberalism in the 1930s.
Robert King Drury (Sierra Nevada College): World System Dynamics of Actor Networks in the Global Political Economy and the New Assemblages of Capital.
Susanne Hilger (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf): “From Zlin to the World” – Globalization Strategies in the European Shoe Industry before World War II – The Case of the Czech Bat’a Company
Saturday, August 3
9:00 – 11:00 Material Culture and the Construction of Identities
Chair: Emily Rosenberg (UC Irvine)
Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf (University of St. Francis): “Born in America, in Europe bred, in Africa travell’d and in Asia wed”: Elihu Yale, Material Culture and Globalization and the 17th and 18th Century.
Ann Fallon (Portland State): Modernism and the American West: Duchamp’s Nude and Networks of Meaning.
Ethan Miller (FU Berlin): “Manifold Cultures and Multiple Modernities: Franz Boas’ Alternative Vision of Globalization.”
11:00 – 11: 30 Coffee break
11:30 – 1:30 Religious Communities in International Context
Chair: Simone Müller-Pohl (FU Berlin)
Klaus Weber (Viadrina Frankfurt Oder): Religion and material culture: How Huguenots made a merchant empire out of sugar and cotton - and how they lost it (17th-19th C.)
Elisabeth Engel (FU Berlin): „Bourgeoisie Radicals? Considerations on the Role of African American Missionary Photography in the Christian Black Atlantic”
Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University): American Jewry and International Zionism
Albert Wu (American University Paris): Should We Think of a Missionary Society as a Multi-National Corporation?
1:30 – 2:00 Closing Words and Final Discussion (Heather Ellis, Liverpool Hope University & Simone Müller-Pohl, Freie Universität Berlin)