Thursday, September 26

6:15 p.m.–7:45 p.m.
Keynote: Agency, Cooperation and Oligarchy
Wolfgang Reinhard (University of Freiburg)

Friday, September 27
9:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Introductory Comments: Comparing Colonialism
Axel T. Paul (University of Basel)

10:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
Conquest and Founding of Cities: Forms of Colonization in the Greek-Roman World
Hans-Joachim Gehrke (University of Freiburg)

11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Were the Muslim Arabs who Conquered the Middle East Colonialists?
Robert Hoyland (New York University)

11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Ottomans in Syria: "Turkish Colonialism" or Something Else?
James Reilly (University of Toronto)

2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
An Entangled History of the British and French "Imperial Nation-States" in the Age of Revolutions, c.1770–1850
Tanja Bührer (University of Bern)

2:45 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Colonialism at the Fringes of Empire: Reassessing Afghanistan's Place in the British Colonial History, 1857–1900
Francesca Fuoli (University of Bern)

3:45 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Contradictions of British Colonialism in the Uganda Protectorate
Klaus Schlichte (University of Bremen)

Saturday, September 28

9:30 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
Colonial Trajectories: The Constant Remaking of German Rule in South West Africa
Matthias Leanza (University of Basel)

10:15 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Bureaucratic Tools of Emergency and Citizenship in the Colonial Past and Present: Israel/Palestine and India
Yael Berda (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

11:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Indigenous Settler Colonialism? Rethinking Comanche, Lakota and Apache Expansions in North America
Janne Lahti (University of Helsinki)

2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
Where Russia Was "Ahead" of Europe: Russia's State Colonialism in Comparative Perspective
Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University Chicago)

2:45 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Japanese Colonialism and the Geopolitics of Population, Race and Nation in the Korean Imagination
Jin-kyung Park (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul)

3:45 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Imperialism and Colonialism: A Meaningful Distinction?
Krishan Kumar (University of Virginia)

4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Final discussion