Friday, September 15
10:00 – 10:30 am Introduction
Simone Lässig (GHI Washington)
Jürgen Dinkel (University of Leipzig)
10:30 am – 12.15 pm
Panel 1: Inheritance strategies within (transnational) Families
David Green (King’s College London)
The Right of the Dead Man’s Hand? Inheritance, the State and Family
‘Wealthfare’ in England and Wales, 1850–1930
Alastair Owens (Queen Mary University of London)
Inheritance strategies within families
Jürgen Dinkel
Inheritance Transfers within Transnational Families, 1940s to 1970s
Moderator: Elisabeth Engel (GHI Washington)
Comment: Hendrik Hartog (Princeton University)
12:15 – 13:30 pm Lunch at the GHI
13:30 – 15:30 pm
Panel 2: Inheritance strategies, family conflicts and the state
Shennette M. Garrett-Scott (University of Mississippi)
Maggie Lena Walker’s “Will” and the Fraught Legacy of a Self-Made African American Woman in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
Simone Derix (LMU München/ Universität Frankfurt)
Contested Property. Inheritance Conflicts within Wealthy Families
Ute Schneider (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Hereditary relations: Germany East and West
Moderator: Elke E. Stockreiter (American University)
Comment: Vanessa Ogle (UC Berkeley)
15:30 – 15:45 pm Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:45 pm Final Discussion
Moderator: Vanessa Ogle