Wednesday, June 7
14.30-15 Welcome
15-15.30 Opening remarks
Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University, New York)
Sven Reichardt (Universität Konstanz)
15.30-18.30 Panel I: The Axis Alliance and Geopolitics
Ben Martin (Uppsala Universitet)
Interpreting the Axis through the History of International Cultural Relations: Centers and Peripheries in the Global Geo-Politics of Culture
Constantin Iordachi (Central European University, Budapest)
From Public Diplomacy to Geopolitics: The Nazi “Neuordnung Europas” and the Romanian-Bulgarian conflict
Daniel Hedinger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Why we need a Global History of the Axis
Commentator: Bianca Gaudenzi (Universität Konstanz)
19 Dinner (Hotel St. Elisabeth)
Thursday, June 8
9-12 Panel II: The Axis Alliance - Europe and Asia
Ken Ishida (Chiba University)
The Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Comparison: Ultranationalist Japan and Fascist Italy
Kai Hin Brian Tsui (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Political Conversion in Anticipation of Global War: Reforming Former Communists in Nationalist China, 1927-1937
Arnab Dutta (Universität Göttingen)
In search of an orderly Europe: Germanism and the Bengali travellers in the continental Europe, 1925-45
Commentator: Jürgen Osterhammel (Universität Konstanz)
12-13 Lunch Break (Hotel St. Elisabeth)
13-15 Panel III: Eurafrika
Gian Luca Podestà (Bocconi Università, Milano)
Eurafrica. Vital Space, Demographic Planning and the Division of Labor in the Italian Empire
Robert Corban (Columbia University, New York)
A Monroe-Doctrin for Mussolini: Geopolitics and “Eurafrica” in Fascist Italy, 1930-45.
Commentator: Martin Rempe (Universität Konstanz)
16-17 A guided walking tour in Konstanz with historical sites (in English). Start: Historische Hafenuhr
18-19.30 (at Universität Konstanz, Senatssaal) Keynote lecture
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
What and When was the Second World War?
20 Dinner (Restaurant Wessenberg, Konstanz)
Friday, June 9
9-11 Panel IV: The Axis Alliance - Spain and Latin America
Javier Rodrigo Sanchez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Where Everything Started: the International Fascists Alliance in the Spanish Civil War
João Fabio Bertonha (Universidade Estadual de Maringá)
Between the Axis and the Allies. Cultural, geopolitical and ideological constraints in the Brazilian international relations during the 1930s
Commentator: Kirsten Mahlke (Universität Konstanz)
12-13 Lunch (Hotel St. Elisabeth)
13.30-15.30 Panel V: The Axis Alliance and Economics
Janis Mimura (Stony Brook University, New York)
Axis Autarchy: The Economics and Geopolitics of Axis Trade
Jonas Scherner (NTNU, Trondheim)
The Industria Axis? Expectations and Realities of Economic Cooperation
Commentator: Alexander Nützenadel (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
15.30-16 Coffee break
16-19 Panel VI: Occupation Policy and Annihilation
Paolo Fonzi (Seconda Università di Napoli)
German and Italian Occupation Policies in Greece: Competition and Collaboration, 1941-44
Amedeo Osti Guerazzi (Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma)
Cultures of Total Annihilation: German, Italian and Japanese Counterinsurgency Strategies
Aristotle Kallis (Keele University)
The unlikely internationalists: the Axis, the fascists, and the pursuit of genocide
Commentator: Wolfgang Seibel (Universität Konstanz)
19 Dinner (Hotel St. Elisabeth)
Saturday, June 10
9-12 Panel VII: Axis Alliance and the Muslim World
David Motadel (London School of Economics)
Anticolonial Nationalists and Germany’s War for a New World Order, 1939-45
Dilek Barlas (Koç University, Istanbul)
Italian Challenge in the Mediterranean to the International World Order in the 1930s: the Case of Turkey
Kelly Anne Hammond (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
Connections and Convergences: Sino-Muslims and the Axis Powers beyond occupied China
Commentator: Peter Wien (University of Maryland, College Park)
12-13 Roundtable
Victoria De Grazia (Columbia University, New York), Sven Reichardt (Universität Konstan), Geoff Eley (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Moderator: Franz Fillafer (Universität Konstanz)
13.30 Snacks and end of conference