Second European Congress of World and Global History "World Orders in Global History"

Second European Congress of World and Global History "World Orders in Global History"

Organizer
European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
Venue
World Trade Center
Location
Dresden, Germany
Country
Germany
From - Until
03.07.2008 - 05.07.2008
By
Naumann, Katja

Recent years have seen increasing scholarly interest in world orders, i.e. in general patterns and coordinates emerging from the conditions of an entangled and globalised world. The fruitful differences in the ways in which scholars approach and understand world orders are underpinned by the shared observation that the multifold linkages and networks, the connections and mutual influences across the world, both create and are shaped by specific sets of power relations, institutions and ideas. These structures – economic, social, political or cultural  – result from conflicts between various claims for and challenges to domination and regulation in contrast to efforts to preserve autonomy and self-control against hegemonic encroachments. Although they are subject to constant change they represent global constellations, which for different periods of time constitute spheres of stability, structures of governance and frameworks of orientation, thus providing order in a complex, incalculable world. So far this research emphasis has been particularly strong in the Anglo-American context, whereas European scholars have rather reluctantly approached this area. Empirical research in many European countries, however, has addressed a whole range of historical situations and developments, which can be bound together to provide insights into world orders. Therefore the second European Congress in World and Global History seeks to bring these potentials together and to discuss their empirical results, focussing on issues of enforcements and contestations of world orders in economic, social, political and cultural spheres.

The congress presentations will address on the one hand the history of conceptualisations and ideologies of world orders, master narratives for its enforcements, as well as forms of reaction and resistance against established orders. Other presentations will analyse structures of global governance and the structures of politics and economics as well as the effects of labour migration as a challenge to, or reinforcement of, prevailing international divisions of labour. Others again will search for forms of international cooperation as part of a new world order that’s emergence is probable. It will also be asked for imagined world orders in fields like literature and art, and their role in education.

Programm

Thursday, 3 July
07:00 pm Conference Opening
Matthias Middell, Universität Leipzig, DE: Opening Remarks
Anthony G. Hopkins, University of Texas at Austin, US: "From Postmodernism to Globalisation”
Bénédict Savoy, Technische Universität Berlin, DE

Friday, 4 July
09:00 - 06:00 pm Parallel Panel Discussions
06:00 - 07:00 pm Reception
07:00 - 08:00 pm Business Meeting ENIUGH

Saturday, 5 July
09:00 - 03:30 pm Parallel Panel Discussions
04:00 - 06:00 pm Plenary Session
06:00 Dinner Talk:
Gareth Austin, London School of Economics, UK
Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, NL

Panels at a Glance listed by Sessions:

PREMODERN HISTORY
Sacred Rulership as a Paradigm for a Pre - Modern World Order? A Diachronic and Transcultural Perspective on Political Legitimation (chair: Wolfram Drews, Bonn, DE)

World Orders in Early Modern Times (chair: Peer Vries, Wien, AT)

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Empires (chair: Eike Karin Ohlendorf, Leipzig, DE)

Global Governance in an Age of Empires I: Hegemony and Autonomy in International Relations (chair: Regina Grafe, Chicago, US)

Global Governance in an Age of Empires II: International Relations, Markets and Fantasy, 1800 – 1960 (chair: John Darwin, Oxford, UK)

Global Governance in an Age of Empires III: Economic Effects of European Overseas Empires on Other Continents, c.1450 – c.1960 (chair: Ian Phimister, Sheffield, UK)

CULTURAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
International Organizations in Global History: Driving Forces, Venue or rather the Consequence of Competing World Orders? (chairs: Klaas Dykmann, Leipzig, DE / Isabella Löhr, Leipzig, DE)

Politik der Translation: Völkerbund und Zivilgesellschaft (chair: Madeleine Herren, Heidelberg, DE)

Theoretical Problems of a History of Globalization (chair: Steffi Franke, Leipzig, DE)

Civilizing Nature: Towards a Global History of National Parks (chair: Patrick Kupper, Zürich, CH / Christof Mauch, München, DE)

The Propertization of Culture. The International Governance of the Copyright Regime (chair: Hannes Siegrist, Leipzig, DE / Isabella Löhr, Leipzig, DE)

REGIONS COMPARED
Nationalism and sub-imperialism. World regions compared (chair: Alttila Melegh, Budapest, HU)

Piracy in the Indian Ocean (chair: Sebastian Prange, London, UK)

Asianisms: Global Power Structures, Transnational Cooperation and the Politics of Identity in 20th Century Asia (chair: Harald Fischer - Tiné, Bremen, DE)

State and Nation-Formation in the Early Modern Era – China and Britain Compared" (chair: Peer Vries, Wien, AT)

MOBILITY, DIASPORAS AND TERRITORIAL ORDERS
Securitized Worlds and the Dilemma of Mobility in the 20th century (chair: Barbara Lüthi, Basel, CH)

Transport and Cities: Toward a European Order of Mobility (1850 – 2000) (chair: Frank Schipper, Eindhoven, NL)

Zwischen Globalisierung und Europäisierung? Topographie kultureller Ordnungen am ,Rand Europas’ (chair: Daniel Weidner, Berlin, DE)

Diasporic Orders: Archetypical Transnational Phenomenon or Nationalizing Agency? (chair: Mathias Mesenhöller, Leipzig, DE)

HISTORIOGRAPHY I
"World Regions“ and the Writing of World History (chair: Andreas Eckert, Berlin, DE)

Thinking the World – Approaches to World History and Global History (chairs: Jens Naumann, Münster, DE / Christoph Kühberger, Salzburg, AT)

Jenseits nationaler Meistererzählungen? Zur Multiperspektivität und Transnationalisierung von Schulgeschichtsbüchern (chair: Eckhardt Fuchs, Braunschweig, DE)

Geschichtsgesetze als Beitrag zu einer neuen, transnationalen Weltordnung (chair: Luigi Cajani, Rome, IT)

HISTORIOGRAPHY II
Globalization of Historiography and Academic Structures (chair: Katja Naumann, Leipzig, DE/ Dominic Sachsenmaier, Durham, US)

Historiography around the Globe, ca. 1900 (chair: Michael Mann, Hagen, DE)

Giovanni Arrighi‘s ‚The Long 20th Century‘ Revisited (chair: Eric Vanhaute, Ghent, BE)

GLOBAL MOMENTS AND WORLD ORDERS
Ordering the Colonial World – Comparative and Global Perspectives (chair: Sebastian Conrad, Florence, IT)

World/Global History and Slavery (chairs: Michael Zeuske, Köln, DE / Ulrike Schmieder, Hannover, DE)

The French Revolution in Transnational Perspective: Breakthrough to a New World Order, Meeting of the International Commission for the History of the French Revolution (chairs: Alan Forrest, York, UK / Anna Maria Rao, Naples, IT)

Die USA nach 1990: Hegemonie im Weltsystem oder Imperium? (chair: Hans - Heinrich Nolte, Barsinghausen, DE)

1989 as a Global Moment in Africa (chair: Ulf Engel, Leipzig, DE)

ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WORLD ORDERS
International Orders of Labour in the 19th and 20th Centuries (chair: Gareth Austin, London, UK)

Global Economic Orders (chair: Patrick O’Brien, London, UK)

Politische Parteien in der Weltgeschichte – Aussichten für eine globale Weltordnung (chair: Helmut Stubbe da Luz, Hamburg, DE)

,National Internationalists’: Social Movements and Political Parties in the Post-War Period (chair: Thomas Fetzer, London, UK)

The Political Economy of the Rise and Demise of the Capitalist World System
(chair: Hartmut Elsenhans, Leipzig, DE)

CRITICAL JUNCTURES OF GLOBALIZATION
Is the Post-War Period Over? (chair: Stefan Troebst, Leipzig, DE)

Nordic Global Histories (chair: Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Åarhus, DK)

Beyond National History and Memory Politics: Transnational Genocide Studies (chairs: Dominik J. Schaller, Bern, CH / Juergen Zimmerer, Sheffield, UK)

Critical Junctures of Globalization in Comparative Perspective (chair: Ulf Engel, Leipzig, DE)

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