Friday, 27 April 2007
1:30 - 2:00 pm
Welcome and Introduction
2:00 - 5:15 pm
Panel I: The Communicative Construction of Transnational Political Spaces
Chair: Jan Helmig (Bielefeld)
Discussant: Stephan Stetter (Bielefeld)
Brigitte Beauzamy (Paris)
The Globalisation of Community Conflicts and the Construction of Transnational Solidarities
Melissa Aronczyk (New York)
Branding Spaces. Nation Branding and the Communicative Reconstruction of National Identities
3:30 - 3:45 pm Coffee break
Mark Choate (Salt Lake City)
Uniting Italians Abroad. Transnational Promotion of "italianità" among Emigrants, 1870-1920
Andreas Langenohl (Gießen)
The Imagination of Europe in Twin Town Activities. Rethinking Political Culture in the European Union
5:15 - 5:30 pm Coffee break
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Panel II: Civil Society and Governments. Who Are the Agents of Political Transnationalism?
Chair: Jochen Walter (Bielefeld)
Discussant: Mathias Albert (Bielefeld)
Dominique Kirchner Reill (New York)
Transnationalism Reconsidered. The Case for a Multi-National Adriatic in the Nineteenth Century
Steffen Mau, Jan Mewes (Bremen)
Cosmopolitanism through Transnationalism?
7:00 pm Dinner
Saturday, 28. April 2007
9:00 - 10:30 am
Panel II (continued)
Sean N. Kalic (Fort Leavenworth)
Negotiating Outer Space. U.S. Presidents and the Quest to Preserve Space as a Peaceful Transnational Frontier, 1946-1967
Holger Stritzel (London)
The Social Construction of Transnational Threat Spaces
10:30 - 10:45 am Coffee break
10:45 am - 2:45 pm
Panel III: Methodological Approaches to the Analysis of Transnational Political Spaces
Chair: Gesa Bluhm (Bielefeld)
Discussant: Willibald Steinmetz (Bielefeld)
Hayo Siemsen (Iasi)
Adaptive Innovations. Bridging Spatial and Temporal Relations by Cognitive Wormholes
Jani Marjanen (Helsinki)
The History of Concepts beyond the Nation State? Discourses on Methodological Nationalism and Histoire Croisée as New Challenges
12:15 - 1:15 pm Lunch
Hans-Jörg Trenz (Oslo)
Measuring Europeanisation of Public Communication. The Question of Standards
Mathias Middell (Leipzig)
Transnational History and Critical Junctures of Globalisation
2:45 - 3:00 pm Coffee break
3:00 - 7:00 pm
Panel IV: Transnational Spaces and/or/in World Society? World Society Theory and Global History of the Political
Chair: Mathias Albert (Bielefeld)
Discussant: Thomas Faist (Bielefeld)
Christian Haase (Nottingham)
Debating Foreign Affairs. Transnational Liberal Conferences and International Law in the 20th Century
Wolfram Kaiser, Klaus Dittrich (Portsmouth)
Political Communication at the World Exhibitions. Discourses about the 'Social Question' and Education, 1889-1904
4:30 - 4:45 pm Coffee break
William Guéraiche (Dubai/Paris)
A New Way of Thinking National and Transnational. French Geopolitics
Richard Niemeyer (Riverside)
The World-Systems Perspective and Global State Formation
7:00 pm Dinner
Sunday, 29. April 2007
9:00 am - 12.15 pm
Panel V: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Political Transnationalism
Chair: Andreas Leutzsch (Bielefeld)
Discussant: Werner Abelshauser (Bielefeld)
Knut Martin Stünkel (Bünde)
Nations as Times. The National Construction of Political Space in the Planetary History of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy with Reference to Georg Müller's "Last und Trost der deutschen Geschichte"
Otto Kroesen (Delft)
Between Spengler and Rosenstock-Huessy. Twofold or Threefold Thinking within a Fourfold Reference Framework
10:30 - 10:45 am Coffee break
Oliver Kessler (Bielefeld)
History as Collective Forgetting. The Gold Standard and the Politics of Memory
Isabella Löhr (Leipzig)
Intellectual Cooperation in Transnational Networks. The League of Nations and the Negotiation of a Global Copyright Convention
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Comments and Conclusion
1:15 - 2:00 pm Lunch