Day 1: Monday, 10 September
10:30 - 11:00 Registration and Coffee
11:00 - 11:20 Introduction by Richard Evans (Gonville & Caius, Cambridge)
11:20 - 12:00 Keynote address by Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University, Berlin)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Imperial Germany I: Identities Across Borders,
Chair: Indra Sengupta (German Historical Institute, London)
Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi (South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg): "German officers in early colonial India"
Daniel R. Steinbach (Trinity College, Dublin): "Power from the past: The construction and function of a colonial 'Heimat history'"
Jasper M. Heinzen (Darwin College, Cambridge): "'We Hanoverians are all so glad to be half-English': Hanover and the legacy of the Anglo-Hanoverian Personal Union, 1866-1918"
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 16:30 Imperial Germany II: Managing Imperialism,
Chair: Benedikt Stuchtey (German Historical Institute, London)
Niall Williams (National University of Ireland, Galway):
"German colonialism and the Volga Germans, 1890-1914"
Mehmet Yercil (Clare Hall, Cambridge): "Deutsche Bank vs. the Ottoman administration: Agricultural development pursuits in Anatolia, 1890-1914"
Jason Hansen (University of Illinois): "Transnational nation: The Alldeutscher Verband and the cultural effort to construct a global Germany"
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:30 Imperial Germany III: Trans-National Debates,
Chair: Andreas Eckert
Manuela Bauche (University of Leipzig): "Debating malaria: Race, class and scientific factions between German metropole and colonies"
Norman Domeier (European University Institute, Florence): "A global scandal? The Eulenburg affair in Germany, 1906-1909"
Chris Geissler (Jesus College, Cambridge): "Textualizing Germanness: The anti-slavery debate and the Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, 1888-1889"
18:30 - 19:00 Plenary Session: Indra Sengupta, Benedikt Stuchtey, Andreas Eckert
19:30 - 21:00 Dinner
Day 2: Tuesday, 11 September
9:00 - 10:30 Interwar Germany: Legacies of Imperialism,
Chair: Christopher Bayly (St Catharine's, Cambridge)
Mark Jones (European University Institute, Florence):
"The memory of colonial war in the Weimar Republic"
Susann Lewerenz (University of Oldenburg): "On the construction of Germany and its others in 'exotic' popular entertainment (1920-1940)"
Andreas Fleiter (University of Bochum): "Race, crime, and colonialism: The repercussions of German colonialism on German criminology and criminal justice"
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Germany and Eastern Europe, Chair: Richard Evans
Ewa Kokoszycka (European University Institute, Florence):
"Health and the nation: How the Polish Diaspora in Berlin confronted 'Germanness' at the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries"
Gerhard Wolf (University of Hamburg): "National Socialist Germanisation policy in the annexed parts of western Poland".
Sacha Davis (University of New South Wales): "Germanness from the periphery: the Transylvanian Saxons, Germany and the Germans abroad, 1919-1933".
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Situating Germany in the Postwar World, Chair: Andreas Eckert
Nick Rutter (Yale University): "The Better Germans: German Selbstdarstellungen at the World Youth Festival, 1951-1973"
Joshua Rogers (Balliol College, Oxford): "Transnational perspectives on Germanness after 1945: Cultural remigrants and the 'patriotism of scepticism'"
Reinhild Kreis (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich): "'Bring or story around the world': American public diplomacy in Germany and German perceptions of the United States, 1960-1985"
Sebastian Tripp (Ruhr University, Bochum): "Germany and the transnational anti-Apartheid movement"
16:00 - 16:30 Plenary session and closing remarks:
Christopher Bayly, Richard Evans, Andreas Eckert