Camille BUAT (Sciences Po-CHSP/University of Göttingen), Aude-Cécile MONNOT (Sciences Po-CHSP), Alexander VAN WICKEREN (University of Cologne/Sciences Po-CHSP)
Thursday, November 23, 2017
09:30 - Welcoming the Participants and Registration
10:00-10:30 - Introduction
10:30-12:00 - PANEL 1
Imaginations of Spaces: Explorations and Discourses in an Imperial Setting - Discussant: Jakob VOGEL (Sciences Po-CHSP)
KATHERINE PARKER (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps London) - “Putting Space to Paper. The Production of the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century”
DELPHINE FROMENT (ENS Ulm) - “A Scramble for Kilimanjaro? Imperial Rivalries and Production of Space in East Africa at the end fo the 19th century”
MARTA GRZECHNIK (University of Gdánsk) - “Aspirations of an Imperial Space. The Colonial Discourse of the Maritime and Colonial League in Interwar Poland”
12:00-13:30 - LUNCH BREAK
13:30-15:00 - PANEL 2
From Railway to Television: Imperial Space and Infrastructure -Discussant: Vidhya RAVEENDRANATHAN (University of Göttingen/CeMIS)
MATTHEW SCOTT (Newcastle University) - “Visions of Circulation. Continental Imperial Expansion and the Construction of Transcontinental Railway Systems, c. 1850-1930”
LIMIN TEH (Leiden University) - “The Company Town as Imperial Space”
FLORA LOSCH (EHESS Paris) - “Broadcast and Rule: The Circulation of Audiovisual Knowledge and Technologies and the De/Re-composition of the Imperial Space in West Africa”
15:00-15:30 - COFFEE BREAK
15:30-17:00 - PANEL 3
Ordering Mobilities within Imperial Spaces - Discussant: Sabine DULLIN (Sciences Po-CHSP)
HUW J. DAVIES (King’s College London) - “Networks of Knowledge Exchange and Information Circulations in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Military Imperialism”
ZHANNA POPOVA (International Institute of Social History Amsterdam) - “Exile to Siberia as Imperial Practice, 1870s-1900s”
TOM MENGER (University of Cologne) - “‘Ordinary’ Colonial Officers in German East Africa as Pawns and Producers of Imperial Space and Imperial Circulations, ca. 1890-1914”
20:00 - EVENING ACTIVITIES
Friday, November 24, 2017
09:30-11:00 - PANEL 4
Flows of commodities and currencies: Imperial Economic Spaces - Discussant: Claude MARKOVITS (CNRS-CEIAS)
JÉSUS BOHORQUEZ BARRERA (University of Lisbon) - “Entangled Geographies of the Iberian Empires in South America (1750-1800)”
VARSHA PATEL (University of Kassel) - “Reconfiguring Routes of Salt along the British Indian Frontier of Maritime Saurāshtra, Western India 1910-1932”
ADITYA RAMESH (SOAS, London) - “Circulating Commodities, Shifting Sovereignties: Rice across the Bay of Bengal c. 1900-1947”
11:00-11:30 - COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 - PANEL 5
Trajectories and experiences of circulating people: Empire’s multilayered space - Discussant: David DO PAÇO (Sciences Po-CHSP)
METIN ATMACA (Social Sciences University of Ankara) - “An Imperial Social Space with Many Layers. Reconfiguration of the Ottoman-Iranian Frontier by Khaliddiya Sufi Network”
MARTIN SCHALLER (University of St. Andrews) - “Travellers Habsburg Empire – One Imperial Space or Different Spaces? Ca. 1815-1860s”
ANDREI DAN SORESCU (University College London) - “The Peddler, the Peasant and the Portrait of the Czar. Spatial Layers of Empire in fin-de-siècle Romania “
13:00-14:00 - LUNCH BREAK
14:00-15:30 - PANEL 6
Transimperial spaces: places on the move and nodes of circulation - Discussant: Ulrike LINDNER (University of Cologne)
JUSTINE COUSIN (Paris IV) - “Colonial Seafarers creating a Trans-imperial Space. British Empire and Steamship Labour Circulations (1850-1950)”
FLORIAN WAGNER (University of Erfurt) - “The International Colonial Institute and the Creation of a Transimperial Space of Colonial Science (1890s-1920s)”
15:30-16:00 - COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:00 - FINAL ROUNDTABLE