Following moments crisis, discourses of reconstruction and new beginnings see a negotiation of key concepts that provide legitimacy and design new future horizons. The questions we ask are: Which future horizon is developed in which transnational, regional, national or sub-national setting following the First World War? Can transfers of concepts, actors, goods, and indeed 'futures' (i.e. roads to the good society) be shown? If this is case: Who exercises power and influence in this system of global entanglements? Which concepts were translated and/or interpreted in which way in the different regions? Where is a certain friction between differing concepts? Does the friction, or dialogue, between concepts lead to closure or to the development of new concepts or re-interpretations of old ones? Which hands-on consequences did the global legitimacy shifts have within societies? Please send your suggestions for a paper in the form of a short abstract until April 16. We are especially looking for Latin American, North American, and African cases. But all suggestions are welcome.