Wednesday, 7.9.2016
Main building, room 215, Hochschulstrasse 4
16:30–16:45 Welcome Address
16:45–17:45 Panel 1
Chair: Sabine Freitag (Bamberg)
Pieter Spierenburg (Amsterdam): Four Centuries of Prisons and Camps: A Global Perspectice
Mary Gibson (New York): Transnational Prison Histories: Including the Exluded
Stephan Scheuzger (Bern): The Global and the Local in the History of the Prison
17:45–18:45 Plenary Discussion
Thursday, 8.9.2016
Main building, room 215, Hochschulstrasse 4
8:30–10:00 Panel 2: Early Modern Developments
Chair: Britta Hentschel (Zurich)
Falk Bretschneider (Paris): Is there a Global History of the Prison in Early Modernity?
Ralf Futselaar (Amsterdam): Always up-to-date? The Evolution of the Hamburg Prison System, 1615–1879
10:20–12:45 Panel 3: Imprisonment and the Law
Chair: Lucy Williams (Liverpool)
Martin J. Wiener (Houston): 'Penal Servitude' in England 1853–1914: A Success?
Barry Godfrey (Liverpool): Policy Transfer in Penology and Surveillance in the British Empire and its Australian Colonies
Kent F. Schull (Binghamton): Linking Prison Reform and Constitutional Revolutions in the Global Progressive Era of the Early 20th Century
14:15–17:35 Panel 4: Knowledge, Representations and Practices
Chair: Ueli Hostettler (Bern)
Bruce P. Smith (Denver): The Tread-Mill Debate in the British Atlantic World, 1818–1840
Steven Soper (Athens, Georgia): Testing the Limits of Global Knowledge: A Microhistory of British Prison Discourse and Policy in 1851
Jonathan M. Square (New York): Revolts against the Gaze: A Collective Portrait of Imprisonment in the Casa de Correção in Rio de Janeiro, 1859–1876
Satadru Sen (New York): Islands and Prisons: Literal and Metaphorical Insularity in Punishment
17:45–18:30 Broadening the Discussion: Imprisonment in Penal Context
Chair: Thomas Hirt (Bern)
Stacy Hynd: Civilizing Violence? Imprisonment and Penality in British Colonial Africa, c. 1910s–1950s
Friday, 9.9.2016
Main building, room 215, Hochschulstrasse 4
8:30–11:50 Panel 5: Actors and Transfers I
Chair: Brigitte Studer (Bern)
Margaret Charleroy (Warwick): 'Inhuman and Unnatural': The Atlantic Correspondence Network of Theory and Practice of Prison Discipline
Ingo Löppenberg (Cologne): Nikolaus Heinrich Julius (1783–1862) – Inventor of 'Prison Science' and Humboldtian Traveller in Great Britain and the USA
David Arnold (Warwick): The Prison and its Publics: Circulation and Cofinement in British India, 1830–1940
Thomas Hirt (Bern): Clerks, Governors, and Inspectors: The Role of the Colonial Office in Transferring Knowledge and Negotiating Punishment in the British Empire, 1830s to 1890s
12:00–12:45 Broadening the Discussion: Contested Traditions
Chair: Michael Offermann (Bern)
Erin Braatz (New York): A More Civilized Punishment: Prisons and Jurisdictional Disputes on the Nineteenth Century Gold Coast
14:15–15:45 Panel 5: Actors and Transfers II
Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (Cologne): Prison Experts and the International Union of Penal Law (1889–1914)
Derek Elliott (Ifrane): Charles Henderson and the Experience of Imperial Forced Migration, c. 1825–1854
16:05–18:30 Panel 6: Entangled Histories of Penal Systems I
Chair: Barry Godfrey (Liverpool)
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart (Cambridge): Colonial ‘Cinderella’: The Dialectics of Penality in Early Colonial Uganda, 1894–1939
Michael Offermann (Bern): ‘There seems to be no reason why our Indian Jails should not rival those at home and in America.’ Aims, Methods and Meanings of Imprisonment in British India between Local, Regional, Imperial, and Global Contexts, 1825–1892
Martine Jean (Columbia, South Carolina): The Transfer of Penal Science to Brazil and the South Atlantic
Saturday, 10.9.2016
Building UniS, Room A201, Schanzeneckstrasse 1
9:00–10:30 Panel 6: Entangled Histories of Penal Systems II
Ufuk Adak (Istanbul): Ottoman Prison Reform in Istanbul and Izmir in the Late Ottoman Empire
Leonidas Cheliotis (London): Punishment after Empire: State-Building, Democratisation and Imprisonment in Post-Ottoman Greece
10:50–12:15 Final Discussion
Chair: Stephan Scheuzger (Bern)
Inputs by Pieter Spierenburg, Mary Gibson, and Stephan Scheuzger
Plenary Discussion