Thursday, 23 June 2016

1.00 Buffet Lunch

1.45 Welcome and Introduction (Axel Körner, UCL)

2.00–3.30 Panel 1: Concepts

The opening panel seeks to establish a set of conceptual frameworks to help us reshape the relationship between centers and peripheries in historical perspective.

Chair: Jesper Verhoef (Utrecht)

Jaap Verheul (Utrecht): Exploring reference cultures in a transnational perspective
Jan Ifversen (Aarhus): Peripheries, margins and borderlands - a reflection on spatial concepts of asymmetry
Marta Petrusewicz (Calabria): Ex-centric Europe: land-based modernization as an alternative model from the peripheries (Poland, Norway, Ireland and Two Sicilies, 1815-1865)

3.30 Coffee

4.00–5.30 Panel 2: Globalising peripheries

What is big and what is small? What are the origins of global asymmetries? The panel tries to explain multi-faceted and changing hierarchies over time and space.

Chair: Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck)

Michael North (Greifswald): From the Baltic to the Pacific: Trade, Shipping and Exploration on the Shores of the Russian Empire
Harry Stopes (UCL): From Manchester and Lille to the World: Nineteenth century provincial cities conceptualise their place in the global order
Pim Huijnen (Utrecht): How the big world enters a small country’s public media: a data-driven approach to the image of the USA and Germany in Dutch digitized newspapers

6.00 Keynote and Centre for Transnational History Annual Lecture

Nicola Miller (UCL): Republics of Knowledge: Reinterpreting the World from Latin America?

This lecture will be held in the Pearson Lecture Theatre, G22, Pearson Building.

Introduction: Axel Körner (UCL)

Vote of Thanks: Peter Burke (Cambridge)

7.15 Reception (North Cloisters)

7.45 Dinner (Venue to be confirmed)
Friday, 24 June 2016

9.00 Coffee

9.30–11.00 Panel 3: Translating Religions

The panel seeks to understand how religious beliefs are translated into different cultures and used to establish political and societal hierarchies on a global scale.

Chair: Miri Ruben (QMUL)

Silvia Evangelisti (UEA): Missions and Imagination in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America
Avi Lifschitz (UCL): Reversing the hierarchy of world religions: Voltaire and Enlightenment universal histories
Maarten van den Bos (Utrecht): The Dutch started to talk back: Discussions on Centre and Periphery in Catholic communities in the long 1960s

11.00Coffee

11.20–12.50 Panel 4: Knowledge and Commodities in Motion

The panel aims to explain the changing semantics of knowledge and commodities in motion. How does spatial context affect the meaning of goods and ideas?

Chair: Margot Finn (UCL)

Hermione Giffard (Utrecht): Consumption and Transnationality
Moritz von Brescius (Konstanz): Global experts on the move: colonial botany and the formation of a tropical ‘rubber science’, 1870-1918
Lily Chang (UCL): 'The Making of a Legal Statute in the Second World War: Conceptualising Age as a Category of Analysis in Modern China

12.50Buffet Lunch

2.00 Round Table

Moderator: Ulrich Tiedau (UCL)

Tessa Hauswedell (UCL)
Joris van Eijnatten (Utrecht)
Matthew D’Auria (UEA)
Jochen Hung (Utrecht)

3.00 Coffee and farewell