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