08.30 Introduction
Thomas Schmutz (University of Zurich and University of Newcastle, Australia)
08.40 Panel I: Approaches to global phenomena in pre-modern times. Impacts of violence on elite networks in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Chair: Johannes Luther (University of Zurich)
Key Questions: What does "globality" or "globalisation" denote in pre-modern times? In what manner is the social elite of an era affected by forms of violence?
- Nikolas Hächler (University of Zurich): The senatorial order during the crisis-ridden 3rd century. Impacts of violence and political change on the composition, function and importance of social elites in the Roman Empire.
- Miriam Bastian (University of Zurich): A global network of actors of Roman memory sanctions? The Damnatio Memoriae of C. Fluvius Plautianus (205 A.D.).
- Simon van Rekum (University of Zurich): Entangled Spaces, Entangled Times. A Model of Transculturality in the Middle Ages.
10.00 Coffee Break
10.20 Expert Talk I
Matthias Bixler (University of Zurich):
Analyzing Historical Networks. Chances and Limitations of an Emerging Field of Research.
11.20 Panel II: Transnational entanglements, global networks and science
Chair: Dr. Jacopo Lorenzini (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici (IISS), Naples)
- Mikael Pierre (University of Newcastle and Bordeaux): Arthur J. Perkins and the wine industry: a transnational trajectory in the late 19th-early 20th century.
- Joanna Simonow (ETH Zurich): Staging Victims of Hunger in India: The Expansion of Global Networks of Famine Relief and Its Prevention, c. 1900-1955.
- Martin Meiske (Deutsches Museum, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) : Exploring and Exploiting in the Shadow of Technological Infrastructures. Geology and Sea Canals in the Age of High Imperialism.
12.30 Lunch at the ETH cafeteria
13.30 Presentation of the Archives by Dr. Daniel Nerlich, Deputy
Director of the Archives of Contemporary History, ETH Zurich.
13.45 Panel III: Networks, Mobilization and Internationalism
Chair: Dr. Martin Deuerlein (University of Tübingen)
- Steve Marti (Ontario, Canada): Networks of Mobilization: Tracing the Bonds and Boundaries of Nation and Empire through Voluntary Action in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
- Lucas Federer (University of Zurich): Internationalism and transnational networks of the Swiss Trotskyist movement 1945-1968.
- Remzi Cagatay Cakirlar (Leiden University) - Revisiting the Early 20th Century French - Turkish Political History from Transnational and Global Perspective.
- Elisabeth Marie Piller (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Global Networks and Humanitarian Mobilization: Belgian Relief during the Great War.
14.30 Expert Talk II
Dr. Martin Deuerlein (University of Tübingen):
International – transnational – global: a history of key concepts.
15.15 Coffee Break
15.30 Panel IV: Networks of Violence
Chair: Dr. Adrian Hänni (Distance Learning University Switzerland)
- Carl-Leo Graf von Hohenthal (University of Freiburg): Global Middle East and the fight for the future of Palestine: Transnational networks of politics and violence of Jews, Arabs and Britons during the last years of the British Mandate on Palestine (1939-1948).
- Dr. Jacopo Lorenzini (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici (IISS), Naples): Late XIX Century army staff officers: domestic and transnational social networks.
- Dr. Konstantinos Karatzas (Research Fellow, Institute of International Economic Relations, Greece; London Center for Interdisciplinary Research): Greek dictatorship 1967-1974: A network of violence - Lessons and Interpretations.
- Mateusz Mazzini (Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences): Violence helps memory remember itself. The case study of 1944 Warsaw Uprising in present-day Polish politics.
Expert Talk III
Dr. Adrian Hänni (Distance Learning University Switzerland):
Historiography of Transnational Violence: Approaches, Actors, Methods.
17.00 Coffee Break
17.15 Panel V: Global Conflicts and Transnational Violence
Chair: Dr. Francesca Piana (Swiss National Science Foundation)
- Dominique Biehl (Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel): Military Occupations in Boxer War China – The Cases of Beijing and Baoding.
- Sebastian Willert (TU Berlin): Coalition, Competition and Culture. Transnational entanglements in a global war.
- Martin Dorn (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): Kishinev 1903 – Dynamics of a Pogrom.
- Caroline Schneider (University of Newcastle, Australia): State Conducted Forcible Child Transfer - A Global Phenomenon illustrated with the Yazidi Genocide.
Final Discussion