March 21, 2014
12.30 pm Jakob Vogel (Paris/Cologne): Welcome
Kapil Raj (Paris): Introduction
1 PM-2.30 pm Section I, Chair: Petra Overath (Cologne)
Catherine Desbarats (Montreal):
“The Politics of State Financial Knowledge: the Case of France’s ‘Canada Debt’, 1750-1768”
Ulrike Lindner (Cologne):
"Imperial Knowledge Exchange in the 19th Century: From Scientific Experts toward the Development of Institutions"
Comments: Lothar Schilling (Augsburg)
2.30 pm-4 pm Section II, Chair: Jakob Vogel (Cologne/Paris)
Alexander van Wickeren (Cologne):
“Savoir d'État of Tobacco Cultivation in the Napoleonic Empire: Comparing Circulations from the Perspectives of Administrations in Alsace and Baden”
Dörte Lerp (Cologne):
“Passports, Deportations and Labour Recruitment. Migration Control within the German Empire" ”
Comments: Roberto Zaugg (Paris)
Coffee break
4.15 pm-5.45 pm Section III, Chair: Moritz Isenmann (Cologne)
Jakob Vogel (Cologne/Paris):
“On the Edge of Empire and Beyond. Circulating Mining Knowledge in the Napoleonic Era”
Helge Wendt (Berlin):
"Coal in Cuba. Trans-colonial Transfer of Knowledge in the Late Spanish Empire"
Comments: Ester Arens (Cologne)
5.45 pm
Bernd Klesmann (Cologne) & Jakob Vogel: Final comments