THURSDAY, 3 December 2009
16.00 – 16.15 Welcome
16.15 – 17.45 Keynote Speech
Madeleine Herren (University of Heidelberg): ‘They already exist…’ – Do They? Conjuring Global Networks

FRIDAY, 4 December 2009
09.15 – 12.15 Panel One – National Perspectives on Transnational Challenges
Chair: Katja Naumann (GWZO Leipzig)

Marco Platania (University of Frankfurt): Thinking to the Nation in a Global Perspective. From the ‘Free Trade Nation’ to the ‘Imperial Nation-State’, and back: The Fortunes and Problems of a Long-Living Pattern of Analysis”

James Casteel (Carleton University, Ottawa): “Exploring the Eastern Frontier of the Global Economy: German Observers of the Colonization and Development of Siberia 1905-1914”

Klaus Dittrich (University of Portsmouth): “Appropriation, Representation and Cooperation as Transnational Actions: The Example of Ferdinand Buisson”

13.30-17.00 Panel Two – Global Institutions and Transnational Networks
Chair: Monika Dommann (University of Basel)

Guido Thiemeyer (University of Kassel): “The Struggle for an International Bimetallic Monetary Union 1878-1900 and its Failure”

Simone Müller (Free University Berlin): “Beyond the Nations State? Cable Agents and the Global Media System on the North Atlantic, 1860-1915”

Tom Ewing (Virginia Tech University): “Connecting and Contesting the ‘Bonds of Empire’: The Eurasian Telegraph as a Transnational Instrument of Colonial Control and Political Mobilization”

Thies Schulze (University of Münster): “Nationalism and the Catholic Church: Papal Politics and ‘Nationalist’ Clergy in Border Regions”

SATURDAY, 5 December 2009
09.15 – 10.45 Panel Three – Migration and the Nation State
Chair: Antje Flüchter (University of Heidelberg)

Roberto Julio Decker (University of Leeds): “Tests ‘found so valuable in Australia’: White Settler Colonies and the Discourse on Immigration Restriction in the United States”

Gijsbert Oonk (Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Making States, Creating Strangers. Why Trading Minorities Cannot Become Natives”

11.00 – 12.30 Panel Four: National Traditions and Global Scientific Communities

Heather Ellis (Centre for British Studies Berlin): “National or Transnational? University Networks Between Britain and Germany in the 19th Century”

Jahnavi Phalkey (University of Heidelberg/ Imperial College London): “British India, Imperial History and its Global Scientific Communities”

12.30 – 13.00 Concluding Remarks
Peer Vries (University of Vienna)