4. Themes of World History, Part IV
Panel 28: Intervention and Occupation
Saturday, 24 September
14 H 00 - 17 H 00 PM
This panel starts with a model of rule by occupation. The model has been developed using the case of the Napoleonic occupation of Northern Germany. Among other aspects, it includes a list of types of occupation, a developmental scheme of rule by occupation and a list of the phenomena related to the social changes caused by an occupation. The second contribution presents a diachronic comparison of the three Anglo-American occupations of Iraq in the context of the discussion about “globalization”. The question of in what respect the contemporary occupation of that country differs from the previous colonial rule will also be addressed. In the third contribution, an overview will be presented of the different expansion processes of the modern Afghan state as well as those interventions and occupations, that the Afghan state had to suffer in modern times. The result is an intervention or occupation balance sheet. In the fourth contribution, a model of intervention will be sketched that makes use of system theory terminology. The interventionist’s aim to increase the resources of the system dominated by them in a way that is not necessarily tolerated by the other side. In doing so, they have to take the autopoietic forces of the target system into account.
Chair:
Helmut Stubbe da Luz (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg)
Panelists:
Latifa Kühn (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg), Markus Kurth (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg), Christian Lekonb (Universität Hannover/ Istanbul), Helmut Stubbe da Luz (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg)
Panel 40: Americanization of the European Economy
Saturday, 24 September
14 H 00 - 17 H 00 PM
Americanization is a concept established in circles of anthropologists, social and cultural historians. For decades, economic history cared little about cultural aspects, but more about “hard”, i.e. accountable and measurable effects. However, since about a decade economic and business historians have asked what impact culture has had on their specifi c subjects of study. This is done mainly by using the concept of Americanization, on which several books have appeared
in recent years. The purpose of this session is threefold: (1) to show how a cultural concept can be made fruitful in the two fields of research (economic and business history), which often are regarded from outside as dry, boring, and diffi cult; and (2) to show the state-of-the-art concerning historical research on the Americanization of the European economy. All four contributors are old hands in what colloquially is called our “Americanization circus” (since we have had
quite activities all over the World); (3) last but not least, we are curious to what extent our offer is acceptable and interesting for non-economic historians. – Thus, this last issue is the task of the audience! There will be four contributions, and hopefully a lot of discussions. A general introduction will provide an overview of research carried out. A second presentation will show how American management know-how and thinking in terms of competition have entered the board-rooms of German industry. A third one will provide an overview of how American methods and proceedings were taken over by the French electrical industry, while the fourth one will concentrate on the British armament industry and its experience of Americanization. All contributors will also point to the limits of Americanization.
Chair:
Harm Schröter (Universitetet i Bergen)
Panelists:
Till Geiger (University of Manchester), Susanne Hilger (Universität Düsseldorf), Pierre Lanthier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), Harm Schröter (Universitetet i Bergen)
Panel P 41: Genocide: Global Violence – Global Memory
Saturday, 24 September
14 H 00 - 17 H 00 PM
Genocide is a global phenomenon and so is its commemoration. Genocide is inter alia about the destruction of the cultural foundations of the victim group. It attempts not only the destruction of the group as such, but also of any memory, which would point to their very existence. The panel addresses the various ways in which different genocides are remembered in different societies, and tries to point to similarities and differences. Case studies will include the Holocaust, Armenia, Cambodia and Ruanda.
Chair:
Jürgen Zimmerer (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Panelists:
Donald Bloxham (University of Edinburgh), Christoph Cornelißen (Christian-Albrechts-Universtität Kiel), Eric Markusen (Dansk Institut for Internationale Studiern), Paul B. Miller (Univerzitet u Sarajevu), Gordon R. Mork (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana), Dominik J. Schaller (Universität Zürich), Jacques Semelin (Centre d’Études de Recherches Internationales Paris), Jürgen Zimmerer (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Panel P 42: Transnational “Networks”: German Emigrants
in the British Empire 1660–1914
Saturday, 24 September
14 H 00 - 17 H 00 PM
Great Britain offered attractive prospects to many European immigrants politically, culturally, and economically and yet, as a country of immigrants, Britain has always been in the shadow of America. The island country opened up an Empire reaching out to the remote areas of the globe, free from small-state customs barriers and legal restrictions, with extraordinary opportunities for trade and research. Not incidentally the Germans represented the largest group of immigrants over more than two centuries. German scholars and scientists, explorers and merchants were able to pursue their overseas international interests within the worldwide infrastructure of the British Empire. At the same time, Great Britain needed those experts from other places for expanding and consolidating its scattered possessions.
Chairs:
Stefan Manz (University of Greenwich London), Margrit Schulte-Beerbühl (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Panelists:
John Davis (Kingston University London), Mark Häberlein (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg), Frank Hatje (Universität Hamburg), Ulrike Kirchberger (Universität Bayreuth), Stefan Manz (University of Greenwich London), Horst Rössler (Bremen/Bremerhaven), Margrit Schulte-Beerbühl (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Panel P 43: Slavery and Forced Labor in America and Africa in the “Long Historical Permanence”
Saturday, 24 September
14 H 00 - 17 H 00 PM
From the 16th to the 19th century, the plantation systems in Brazil, in the Caribbean and later in the southern parts of North America - all based on slave labor - constituted a central part of the Atlantic economy. During this period more than twelve million people were transported by force from Africa to the Americas in order to work on the ‘New World’ plantations – the largest forced migration in world history. At the beginning of the 21st century the heritage of this ‘peculiar institution’ of slavery is still visible – in the form of racism, poverty and limited prospects of promotion. This panel attempts to discuss and to assess in a long-term perspective the importance of slavery and other forms of unfree labor for the societies and economies in the Atlantic world.
Chairs:
Andreas Eckert (Universität Hamburg),
Michael Zeuske (Universität zu Köln)
Panelists:
Tba
Panel 45: Food and Globalization. Markets, Migration and Politics in a Transnational Perspective (19th and 20th centuries centuries)
Saturday, 24 September
14 H 00 - 17 H 00 PM
Until very recently, the transnational implications of food and nutrition had found scant attention among historians. However, food has played an important role in historical globalization. Food markets were the fi rst to become globally integrated, linking distant areas and cultures of the world. In no other area have the interactions between global exchange and local cultural practices been as discernible as in changing food cultures. Food consumption plays a crucial role for the construction of local and national identities and the changing self-understanding of social groups, migrants and ethnic communities. This panel addresses central facets of a global history of food in the 19th and 20th centuries: The international trade and consumption of foods, migration and ethnic food, global governance as well as the transnational dimension of nutrition science will be considered.
Chairs:
Maren Möhring (Universität zu Köln), Alexander Nützenadel (Universität zu Köln)
Panelists:
Boris Loheide (Universität zu Köln, ), Alexander Nützenadel (Universität zu Köln), Laura Rischbieter (Universität zu Köln), Maren Möhring (Universität zu Köln)
Panel P 46: Concepts of Historical “Meso-Regions” in Social Sciences
Saturday, 24 September
14 H 00 - 17 H 00 PM
Since Fernand Braudel’s La Méditerranée, concepts of historical meso-regions have made their way into historical research as well as into social anthropology, political science, sociology, migration studies and, of course, geography. Looking at “seascapes”, “regions in history”, Geschichtsregionen and other spatializations in a comparative way helps to identify specifi c clusters of transnational structures constituting units of analysis which are real and invented at the same time. The proposed interdisciplinary panel looks at African, Asian and European cases in order to contribute to the formulation of a middle-range theory of historical “meso-regions”.
Chairs:
Ulf Engel (Universität Leipzig), Hans-Dietrich Schultz (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Stefan Troebst
(Universität Leipzig)
Panelists:
Mark Bassin (University College London), Katrin Bromber (Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin), Laurence Marfaing (Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin), Stefan Troebst (Universität Leipzig)
Panel 47: Journals and other Media in the Field of World and Global History
Saturday, 24 September
14 H 00 - 17 H 00 PM
An increasing number of journals and new electronic specialists forums devote their programs wholly or in part to transnational or global history. This panel provides an overview of such efforts in Europe and, at the same time, initiates the discussion about challenges to the editorial process in light of questions of global history.
Chair: tba
Panelists:
William G. Clarence-Smith (University of London), Rüdiger Hohls (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Matthias Middell (Universität Leipzig), Karl-Heinz Roth (Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Bremen), Hannes Siegrist (Universität Leipzig)