Friday 12 September
9.00-9.25 Registration
9.25-9.30 Welcome and Introduction
9.30-10.30 Keynote Lecture (TBC)
10.30-11.00 Tea/coffee break
11.00-13.00 Transfers of Ideas about Society and Social Issues
Commentator: TBC
Timothy Smith (Queen's University, Canada)
Best Practices and Worst Stereotypes: How Nationals Learn from Other Nations
James Thompson (University of Bristol)
Lawrence Goldman (University of Oxford)
Daniel Rodgers (Princeton University)
Thick and Thin: Social Policy Clustering and Models of Society in Two Phases of US Transnational Politics, 1890 to 1914 and 1974 to the Present
13.00- 14.00 Lunch
14.00- 16.00 International Organisations and Universal Social Issues
Commentator: Pierre-Yves Saunier (CNRS, Lyon)
Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Wellcome Centre, UCL)
Troubled Transmissions, Unexpected Outcomes: World Health Organization networks, disease cotrol and eradication policies, and their impact on South Asia
Madeleine Herren (Heidelberg University)
Transcultural Bargaining with Trojan Horses: alternatives to the institutional history of international labour organisations?
Inderjeet Parmar (University of Manchester)
American philanthropic foundations and the Politics of International Knowledge Network-Construction in the Cold War
15.30 - 16.00 Tea/coffee break
16.00 - 18.00 Exchanges on the Economics of Social Welfare
Commentator: Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Martin Daunton (University of Cambridge)
Distributive Justice, Trade and Employment: Recreating the Global Economy after the Second World War
David Todd (University of Cambridge)
A Tool for Promoting Social Welfare or National Power: the Ambivalent Reception of British Free Trade in France and Germany , 1840-1870
Tamotsu Nishizawa (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
Economics of Social Reform across the Borders: Germany, UK and Japan around 1900
19.00 for 19.30 Conference Dinner at Trinity Hall
Saturday 13 September
9.00-10.30 Exchanges within Federal States and across Empires
Commentator: Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge)
Eddy Rogers (University of Cambridge)
A ‘Most Imperial Contribution’: New Zealand and old-age pensions in Britain, 1898-1908
Erik Grimmer-Solem (Wesleyan University)
Reform Redux: the Second Life of the German Social Question in the Colonies, 1900-1918
10.30-11.00 Tea/coffee break
11.00-13.00 Transfers of Social Policy Ideas
Commentator: TBC
Maria-Sophia Quine (University of East Anglia)
Social Modernity Italian-Style: Welfare Policy from Liberalism to Fascism in Trans-national Perspective
Julia Moses (University of Cambridge)
Workplace Accidents, Transfers of Ideas and Convergence in European Welfare Policy, 1870-1930
Stein Kuhnle (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin)
The early formative years of Scandinavian welfare states and the impact of ideas from outside
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 Concluding Panel Discussion