13 May Welcome Dinner
14 May
09.00 Opening: Bo Stråth
09.30-11.00 A World Historiography
Georg Iggers and Edward Wang
Discussant: Masayuki Sato
11.00-11.30 Coffee
1130-1330 World History: Civilisational Analysis and Cultural Crystallisation
Shmuel Eisenstadt
Johann Arnason
Björn Wittrock
Discussant: Peter Wagner
Chair: Henrik Stenius
1330-1430 Lunch
1430-1630 From Studying Entanglement to Writing World History: Transcultural Politics before 1800
Garth Fowden, Towards a Transcultural History of Rationality. Aristotle in Arabic, Latin and Chinese
Almut Höfert, Transcultural Sacred Monarchy
Discussant: Willfried Spohn
Chair: Johann Arnason
1630-1700 Coffee
1700-1900 A Global History beyond the Cultural Turn
Barbara Weinstein
Peter Wagner
1900 Cocktail Sala Bandiere
15 May
0930-1300 The Possibility of a Global Coming to Terms with an Elusive Past. The Postcolonial Challenge
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Margrit Pernau
Shalini Randeria
1100-1130 Coffee
Discussant: Sandro Mezzadra
Chair: Marcel van der Linden
1300-1430 Lunch
1430-1700 The Deployment of Industrial Capitalism and the Social in a Global Perspective
Fred Block
Hartmut Kaelble
Jürgen Kocka
Asli Odman
Hans-Jürgen Puhle
Discussant: Göran Therborn
Chair: Lars Magnusson
1700-1730 Coffee
1730 An Alternative Global Master Narrative?
Hayden White
2000 Conference Dinner