Thursday, 24 May:
Arrival
16.00: Welcome by Stefan Berger (University of Manchester) and Alexei Miller (Central European University)
16.15: Stefan Berger and Alexei Miller, Nation-Building and Regional Integration: The Role of Empires, c. 1800 - 1914
16.45: Joern Leonhard (University of Freiburg) and Ulrike von Hirschhausen (University of Hamburg), Opportunities and Crises of Multi-ethnic Empires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
17.15: Discussion
19.00 Dinner
Friday, 25 May:
9.30: Chris Williams (University of Wales, Swansea), Nation-Building and Regional Integration: the British Empire
10.00: Al Rieber (Central European University), Nation-Building and Regional Integration: The Russian Empire
10.30: Arnd Bauerkaemper (Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas), Nation-Building and Regional Integration: the German Empire
11.00: Coffee
11.30: Discussion
12.30: Lunch
14.00: David Laven (University of Manchester), The Italian Periphery in the Napoleonic and Habsburg Empires
14.30: Andrea Komlosy (University of Vienna), Nation Building and Regional Integration: The Habsburg Empire
15.00: Drago Roksandic (University of Zagreb), Nation Building and Regional Integration: The Triplex Confinium
15.30: Tea
16.00: Discussion
17.00: Interim discussion of the project - validity of thematic clusters in light of case-studies.
19.00: Dinner
Saturday, 26 May
10.00: Xose-Manuel Nunez-Seixas (University of Santiago de Compostela), Nation-Building and Regional Integration: the Spanish Empire
10.30: Feroze Yasamee (University of Manchester): Nation-Building and Regional Integration: the Ottoman Empire
11.00: Stefan Troebst (GWZO Leipzig), Traces of Vanished Empires: The Swedish Case
11.30: Coffee
12.00: Discussion
13.00: Lunch
14.30: Maiken Umbach (University of Manchester), Federalism in Ninteenth Century Europe
15.00: Marsha Siefert (Central European University), Communications Systems in Imperial Borderlands
15.30: Discussion
16.30: Tea
17.00: Stefan Berger (University of Manchester) and Alexei Miller (Central European University), Final Discussion
19.00: Dinner
Sunday, 27 May: Departure