Day One: 2 December 2021
13.30-14.00 Welcome & Introductory Remarks
Alexander van Wickeren (University of Cologne, Germany), Jean Stubbs (University of London, UK), William Clarence-Smith (SOAS University of London, UK)
14.00-14.15 Break
14.15-16.15 Panel 1: Colonies in local and global trade
Chair/Discussant: Christof Dejung (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Guido Cioni (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II & Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, both Italy): Venice between global goods and imperial concerns: The case of tobacco's production in the Ionian islands and the Dalmazia veneta, 1760s-1790s
Basma Fahoum (Stanford University, USA): Tobacco in Palestine/Israel, 1880s-1980s
C. J. Kuncheria (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India): An Empire of Smoke: Colonial Tobacco in Interwar Britain
Sibanengi Ncube (University of the Free State, South Africa): Southern Rhodesia and the Empire: The Dollar Crisis and Postwar Tobacco Trade Politics, 1947-1960
16.15-16.30 Break
16.30-18.30 Panel 2: Hispanic particularities?
Chair/Discussant: Vicent Sanz Rozalén (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
Johan Sebastián Torres Güiza (Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico): The Participation of the New Granada in the Spanish Imperial State Monopoly (1774-1812)
Montserrat Gárate Ojanguren (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain): Tabaco venezolano y hacienda imperial, 1779-1830
Santiago de Luxan Mendez & María de los Reyes Hernández Socorro (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain): El modelo cubano del Tabaco y del azúcar. Canarias en la Segunda Globalización. La intervención de los hermanos León y Castillo
María Dolores Elizalde (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Spain): The abolition of the tobacco monopoly in the Philippines: Emergencies and resistances, 1870‐1885
Day Two: 3 December 2021
13.40-13.45 Welcome Back & Day One Recap
Alexander van Wickeren (University of Cologne, Germany)
13.45-15.45 Panel 3: Empires of knowledge
Chair/Discussant: Pierre Singaravélou (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Martin Kalb (Bridgewater College, USA): Tobacco Fantasies? German Tobacco Cultivation in Southwest Africa
Christos Karampatsos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) & Nikolaos Alexis (University of Crete, Greece): Workers, machines, an emerging nation state and a crumbling Empire: The mechanization of the "Greek" Cigarette Making Industry, (1890-1925)
Xavier Huetz de Lemps (Côte d’Azur University, France):
Poor man's cigars: Tobacco micro-companies in the Philippines at the end of Spanish colonial period and the beginning of American domination
Gnieneferetien N. Silué (Université Alassane Ouattara, Ivory Coast): Le tabac dans la politique coloniale agricole de la France de 1910 jusqu'à la veille de la seconde guerre mondiale
15.45-16.00 Break
16.00-18.00 Panel 4: Changing labour regimes
Chair/Discussant: Ulrike Lindner (University of Cologne, Germany)
William A. Morgan (Lone Star College-Montgomery, USA): Tobacco in the Age of Cuba’s Second Slavery
Jesse Olsavsky (Duke Kunshan University, China): Runaway slaves, America's tobacco empire, and abolitionist political economy, 1830-1860
Ratna Saptari (Leiden University, Netherlands): Negotiating Tobacco Production: Tobacco Planters, Peasants and the State in Besoeki, East Java (from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century)
Kostas Tziaras (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece):
Tobacco smuggling as a survival network for the poor. The example of Thessaloniki, after the end of the Ottoman period
Day Three: 4 December 2021
13.10-13.15 Welcome Back & Day Two Recap
Alexander van Wickeren (University of Cologne, Germany)
13.15-15.15 Panel 5: Globalizing consumption
Chair/Discussant: Angelika Epple (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Laird Jones (Lock Haven University, USA): East African Tobacco Wars: Marketing machine vs. hand-rolled cigarettes, 1880-1914
Emma Thomas (University of New South Wales, Australia):
Tobacco, Power, and Agency in German Colonial New Guinea
Relli Shechter (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel): Prosumption as Glocal History: Inconspicuous Consumption and Cigarette Production in Egypt, 1890–1939
Felicity Jensz (University of Munster, Germany): Collecting colonies with cigarette cards
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-15.50 Concluding Remarks
Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff (International Institute of Social History, Netherlands)
15.50-16.30 Round Table Wrap Up
William Clarence-Smith (SOAS University of London, UK), Jean Stubbs (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK), Alexander van Wickeren (University of Cologne, Germany)