Friday, 18 February 2011
14:00-14:30 Welcome & Refreshments
14:30-15:00 Introductory Remarks: M. Michaela Hampf (Freie Universität Berlin)
15:00-16:30 PANEL I: THE TELEGRAPH AND THE HISTORY OF GLOBALIZATION
Chair: Roland Wenzlhuemer (University of Heidelberg)
Dwayne Winseck (Carleton University, Ottawa): “Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860 – 1930”
Volker Barth (University of Cologne): “World Communication Order: Structure and Condition of Global Communication, 1859-1934”
Leonard Laborie (Université Paris-Sorbonne IV): “France, Europe, and a World Communication Order, 1865-1959”
16:30-17:30 Guided Tour, Museum of Communication Berlin
18:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Friedrich Tietjen (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig)
Saturday 19 February 2011
09:00-11:00 PANEL II: TELEGRAPHIC “GLOCALIZATION“
Chair: Graeme Gooday (Leeds University)
Richard Noakes (University of Exeter): “Connecting Cornwall: Telecommunications, Work and Locality in West Britain, 1870-1914”
Florian Sprenger (University of Vienna): “Thoughts on Immediacy and Instanteneity or the relation of global and local”
John Moyle (Leeds University): “Cable Technicians in the British Empire: Maintaining the Global System”
Niklaas Hoffmann (Freie Universität Berlin): "From Wireless to Radio: Global Players and Local Amateurs in Argentina"
11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30-13:30 PANEL III: STRATEGIC (INTER)NATIONLISMS AND THE MEDIUM OF MODERNITY
Chair: Gordon Winder (LMU Munich)
Wendy Gagen (University of Exeter): “Not another hero: The Eastern Telegraph Company’s creation of the soldier hero and company man”
Daqing Yang (George Washington University): “Communication in East Asia in the Age of Imperialism”.
Torsten Kathke (LMU Munich): “Wires that Bind: Democracy and Nationhood in the American Southwest, 1870-1930”
Simone Müller-Pohl (Freie Universität Berlin): “Between ‘National Necessity’ and ‘Cable Socialism’ – Henniker Heaton and Modes of Modernity”
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 PANEL IV: THE TELEGRAPH UND PUBLIC HISTORY
Chair: Andreas Etges (Freie Universität Berlin)
Alan Renton (Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Cornwall): “The Submarine Telegraphs and the Cornish Region: Porthcurno’s Telegraph Museum and the Cable & Wireless Archive”
Lioba Nägele (Museum of Communication, Frankfurt): “The Museum of Communication and the Frankfurt Telegraph Collection”
15:45-16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00-18:00 PANEL V: TELEGRAPHY AS MEDIUM OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
Chair: Jürgen Wilke (University of Mainz)
Amelia Bonea (University of Heidelberg): “‘All the news that's fit to print? Reuter's telegraphic news service in colonial India”
Michael Mann (Humboldt University): “Communication and the Emergence of the Public Sphere in British India, 1880-1920“
Heidi Tworek (Harvard University): “The Production of News: Germany and the Global News Cartel, 1900-1933”
Martin Doll (University of Luxembourg): “Global Networks – Global Commonality. The Interdependence of Telegraphy and Social-revolutionary Movements”
18:00 Closing Remarks: M. Michaela Hampf