Friday, 13 November
12.30 – 13.30pm Arrival and Registration
13.30 – 14.15 Opening roundtable
Matthias Middell (Leipzig)
Katja Naumann (Leipzig)
Others to be confirmed.
Panel 1
14.30 – 16.00 Re-envisioning the ‘World System’
Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley), Neoliberal Geographic: The World Economy Against the Nation from Bernhard Harms to Herbert Giersch
James Mark (Exeter), Architects of the Semi-Periphery: Hungarian Reform Economists and the Re-Imagining of the World System, 1970-1995
Adam Kola (Toruń), Marian Małowist: World History on the Socialist Semi-Peripheries
16.00 Refreshments
Panel 2
16.30 – 18.00: Challenging Eurocentrism/ Western-centrism
Madeleine Elfenbein (Chicago), Islamism as Counter-Hegemony and as Imperial Ideology: The Writings of Namık Kemal and Ali Suavi
Jonathan Crossen (Waterloo), Indigenous Internationalism: The Fourth World as an alternative to Westphalian sovereignty
Dimitry Shlapentokh (Indiana), The Creation of Mongolian Commonwealth: The Case of Post-Soviet Russia and Eurasianism
Saturday, 14 November
Panel 3
09.00 – 10.15: Disputed Cartographies
Christian Lotz (Marburg), Mapping a socialist world. Conflict and cooperation during the Cold War and the production of the Karta Mira (World Map) 1:2.500.000
Pascale Siegrist (Konstanz), Is There an Anarchist Geography in the Nineteenth Century?
Panel 4
10.30 – 12.00: World History, World Culture - Re-Imagining Global Narratives, Recentering the World
Paul Betts (Oxford), The Dream of Socialist Antiquity: African Anthropology and Art from an East German Perspective
Corinne Geering (Giessen), World Culture in the Making: UNESCO and the Politics of International Cultural Cooperation during late Socialism
David Bryan (Birkbeck), Re-imagining the world in Franco’s Spain: Empire, Hispanidad and global Catholicism.
Panel 5
13.00 – 14.30: Latin America: Transregional Circulations and Revolutionary Thought
Thomas Lindner (Berlin), Imagining the anti-imperialist world. Globalized visions from Latin America during the 1920s
David Mayer (Amsterdam), Re-mapping 20th century Marxism – the example of historiographic debates in the radical 1960s in Latin America
Paolo Capuzzo (Bologna), Geo-cultural maps of revolution: Gramsci, Marategui, Sultan-Galiev
Panel 6
14.45 – 15.45: Imagining an anti-imperialist world
Nemanja Radonjic (Belgrade), „From Kragujevac to Kilimanjaro“ - imagining and reimagining Africa in Socialist Yugoslavia’s travelogues
Elizabeth Banks (New York), The Struggle is Shared: Revolution, Socialism and Transnational Vision in Mozambican Media Space 1965-80
Panel 7
16.15 – 17.45: Carriers of Geographical Imaginaries: Activists, Students, Movements
Caroline Moine (Paris), Imagining a world of solidarity. Situating the Chilean cause in the debates on North-South and East-West-relations in the 1970s
Tatiana Smirnova (Paris), Reconceptualization of the “socialist world” in Niger
Zsófia Lóránd (Florence), Looking at “Global Sisterhood” Through the Lens of Feminists in Yugoslavia
17.45 – 18.15
Summing up, future plans
19.30 Informal Dinner