Axis Empires. Toward a Global History of Fascist Imperialism

Axis Empires. Toward a Global History of Fascist Imperialism

Organizer
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), LMU München; Daniel Hedinger; Reto Hofmann
Venue
Center for Advanced Studies, Seestr. 13, 80802 München
Location
München
Country
Germany
From - Until
23.11.2015 - 24.11.2015
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Hedinger, Daniel

Imperialism is a defining feature of capitalist modernity and, in the twentieth century, found a number of ideological expressions. This workshop is concerned with the question of fascist imperialism. Understanding “fascism” broadly as the ideology and politics that emerged in Japan, Italy, and Germany, it seeks to investigate the empires developed by these countries in the context of the wider, global experience of imperialism.

For registration: info@cas.lmu.de

Programm

Monday, 23 November 2015

10:00 – 10:30 Welcome Address

Panel I. Comparative Perspectives. Comment: Sven Reichardt (University of Konstanz)
11:00 – 11:30 Louise Young (University of Wisconsin-Madison):
Fascist Imperialism / Imperial Fascism / Japan and Asia
11:30 – 12:00 Reto Hofmann (Monash University)
The Corrective Imperative: Fascism Between Nation and Capital
12:00 – 12:30 Daniel Hedinger (LMU Munich)
The Imperial Nexus. The Berlin – Rome – Tokyo Axis and the Second World War in a Colonial Context

Panel II. Ideological and Cultural Connections. Comment: Martin Baumeister (DHI Rom/LMU Munich)
3:00 – 3:30 Benjamin Martin (Uppsala University)
Culture and Fascist Imperialism: Cultural Politics of Empire in and between Italy and Germany, 1935-1945
3:30 – 4:00 Gerhard Krebs (Berlin)
The Yellow Peril Revived: Nazi Germany and the Japanese Domination over Asia
4:00 – 4:30 Tatiana Linkhoeva (LMU Munich)
Debates on “Japanese-style Fascism” in the 1920s

6:15 Keynote Lecture by Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)
Imperialism versus Imperialism? The European New Order’s struggle against the Anglo-American Colonial Order in the Mediterranean and East Africa

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Panel III. Empire Building. Comment: Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (LMU Munich)
09:30 – 10:00 Patrick Bernhard (UCD Dublin)
The Missing Link: Italian Colonialism as an Inspirational Force for
the Nazis’ Dream of Empire
10:00 – 10:30 Janis Mimura (Stony Brook University, NY)
Manchuria and the Axis Alliance
10:30 – 11:00 Monica Fioravanzo (Università di Padova)
The Dream of the “Euro-Afro-Asiatic Vital Space”: Italian Fascism and the Idea of a New European Order (1932-1945)

Panel IV. Regionalizing Axis Imperialism. Comment: Richard Bosworth (Oxford University)
1:00 – 1:30 Rotem Kowner (Haifa University)
When Economy, Strategy and Racial Ideology Meet: Inter-Axis
Connections in Southeast Asia
1:30 – 2:00 Kelly Hammond (University of Arkansas)
Managing Muslims: Japan’s Quest to Legitimize Itself in the Islamic World through Connections with Italy and Germany in WWII
2:00 – 2:30 Sanela Schmid (Nürnberg)
Italian Empire-Building and German Observances in the “Independent State of Croatia”

Panel V. The World and the Axis. Comment: Andreas Renner (LMU Munich)
4:00 – 4:30 Kilian Bartikowski (Lancaster University)
British Observations on the “New” Italian Colony Abyssinia
4:30 – 5:00 Shohei Saito (Tokyo/LMU Munich)
Crossing Perspectives in Manchukuo: Russian Eurasianism and
Japanese Pan-Asianism
5:00 – 5:30 Laura Cerasi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Defining Fascist Imperialism Between the Legacy of Rome and
Visions of the British Empire

Contact (announcement)

Daniel Hedinger

LMU Munchen

hedinger.daniel@googlemail.com


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