09:00 Welcome

09:10 Jan Zielonka* (Oxford)
Europe as Empire

10:05 Glyn Morgan (Syracuse)
Europe: Deep and Wide

11:00 Coffee Break

11:10 Fred Cooper & Jane Burbank (NYU)
From Empire to Confederation?

12:05 Eric Cavallero (Southern Connecticut State)
Federative Global Democracy

1:00 Lunch Break

2:30 Detlef von Daniels (Univ. of Erfurt /Humanities Center Fellow)
How to Conceive a Commonwealth

3:25 Mattias Kumm (NYU)
European Exceptionalism

4:20 Coffee Break

4:30 Charles Maier (Harvard)
Empire or Commonwealth… What's in a Name?