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01 September 2021

13:30 – 14:00 / Opening notes
Panel 1: Pre-Modern China’s Global History and Global Historiography
Chair & commentator: Prof. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (University of Vienna)

14:00 – 15:00 / Keynote
Elke Papelitzky, Ph.D. (KU Leuven): Thinking About the World in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century China

15:05 – 15:50 / Ilia Kolnin (Russian Academy of Sciences), Imperial China and Its Perception of Itself and the Foreign With a Focus on Mainland Southeast Asia During the Yuan-Ming Transition

15:50 – 16:35 / Maxim Korolkov (Heidelberg University / Russian Academy of Sciences), Networks, Empires, World-Systems: The Dynamics of Early Sinitic Empires, ca. 300 BCE – 300 CE

Coffee break with breakout rooms.

Panel 2: China’s Imperial Histories and Their Impact in the Modern Era
Chair & commentator: Prof. Michael Brose (Indiana University)

17:00 – 18:00 / Keynote
Prof. Timothy Brook (University of British Columbia): Mongols in a Chinese World, Chinese in a Mongol World: Legacies of the Great State

18:05 – 18:50 / Sabine Hinrichs (University of Vienna), Unquestionably „Chinese“? The Mongol World Empire in Modern Chinese Historiography

18:50 – 19:35 / Sebestyén Hompot (University of Vienna), The Zheng He Missions in Global History and Their Impact on Chinese Historiography in the Belt & Road Era

19:35 – 20:20 / Rong Wu (Cambridge University), Drawing From a Global Repertoire: Constitution-Making in Early Republican China, 1912–1914

02 September 2021

Panel 3: China and Global Economic History of the Modern Era
Chair & commentator: Anna Belogurova, Ph.D. (Free University of Berlin)

10:00 – 11:00 / Keynote
Steve Rolf, Ph.D. (University of Sussex): Back to the Future - China's New State Capitalism and Its Global Implications

11:05 – 11:50 / Tanja Kotik (University of Graz), Locating the Chinese Enterprise System in the Historical Trajectory of Global Capitalism - A World-Systems Perspective

11:50 – 12:35 / Gus Tsz-Kit Chan (University of Leipzig), Historical China in a Global Public Sphere: The Lijin Discourse in The Eastern Miscellany

12:35 – 13:20 / Alice Trinkle (Free University of Berlin), The Development of Liberal Economic Thinking in China in Exchange With the (Post) Socialist World, 1978 – 2001

Coffee break with breakout rooms.

Panel 4: Entangled Global Histories of the 20th Century
Chair & commentator: Carles B. Broggi, Ph.D. (Open University of Catalonia)

15:05 – 15:50 / Morgan Rocks (College of the Holy Cross / University of British Columbia), The Spain in Chinese Hearts: Communists, Anarchists, the Spanish Civil War, and Global Anti-Fascism

15:50 – 16:35 / Rossella Roncati (Ca’Foscari University of Venice / Heidelberg University), Chinese-Italian Women’s Cooperation During the Early Cold War Era

16:35 – 17:20 / Wang Shangshang (LMU Munich), Cosmopolitanism and Evolutionary Imaginations in Late Qing and Republican China, 1906–1937

03 September 2021

Panel 5: Global Historiography in Modern and Contemporary China
Chair & commentator: Polina Rysakova, Ph.D., Ass. Prof. (Saint Petersburg University)

10:05 – 10:50 / Sebas Ruemke (University of Hamburg / Fudan University), The Invention of Wei Yuan as the Pioneer of Modern Chinese World/Global History

10:50 – 11:35 / Wu Qiuhong (Beijing Foreign Studies University), The View of Interaction and Integration in Wang Tongling's History of Oriental Countries (language of presentation: Chinese)

11:35 – 12:20 / Stephanie Ziehaus (University of Vienna / Palacky University Olomouc), The Qing Empire Between „Old“ Imperialism and New Imperial History

Panel 6: „Gu wei jin yong?“ - Using the Past to Serve the Present?
Chair & commentator: Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider (University of Göttingen)

15:30 – 16:30 / Keynote - Dr. Sinkwan Cheng (Duke University): Use the Past to Remake the Present or Use Western Learning to Remake China? — Two Interpretations of Geming in China’s Response to Imperialism in the Early Twentieth Century

16:35 – 17:20 / Frederik Schmitz (University of Bonn), Usage of Pre-Modern Narratives for Contemporary Great Power Politics

17:40 – 18:25 / Lucas Brang (University of Cologne), When National Revanchism Meets Disciplinary Self-Doubt: China’s Rise and the Politics of Global Legal History

18:25 – 18:45 / Concluding remarks