Wednesday, 8 January, Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana
17.00-19.00 Kick-off Lecture
Prof. Jane Burbank and Prof. Frederick Cooper (New York University) Eurafrica and Eurasia: Perspectives on Europe and Beyond
Thursday, 9 January Sala Europa, Villa Schifanoia
9.00-9.30 Welcome by Prof. Federico Romero, Head of Department
9.30-10.45 Prof. Jane Burbank (New York University), Keynote Lecture
Nineteenth-Century Europe and Beyond: A Transimperial History
Session I Empire and expertise: the role of transnational networks
Chair and discussant: Prof. Regina Grafe (EUI)
10.45-11.15 Moritz von Brescius
Science, travel, and the colonial imagination
11.45-12.15 Florian Wagner
Making Colonial Friends: Private Colonialism and International Cooperation in Nineteenth Century Europe (1830-1914)
12.15-12.45 Alexandra Pfeiff
Chinese Red Cross Humanitarianism during the late 1910s and the early 1920s: Perspectives on Transnationalism and Nationalism
Session II Building identities: imperial encounters and their effects
Chair and Discussant Prof. Ann Thomson (EUI)
14.45-15.15 Diana Maria Natermann
Colonial In-betweens: Expectations and Experiences in the Congo Free State and German East Africa (1884-1914)
15.15-15.45 Matthijs Kuipers
The limits of permeation: The colonial cuisine from the Dutch East Indies and the metropolitan public, 1860-1930
16.15-16.45 Pernille Hansen
Danish ‘empire migrants’ in the former Danish West Indies, 1917-45
16.45-17.15 Dónal Hassett
Turning Potential Enemies of the State into Clients of the State: Indigenous Veterans and the Developmentalism in Interwar Algeria 1919-1939
Friday, 10 January Sala Europa, Villa Schifanoia
9.00 – 10.15 Prof. Frederick Cooper (New York University), Keynote Lecture Colonialism and Beyond: French Africa and the World after World War II
Session III Sovereignty and resistance: (failed) ideologies and policies
Chair and Discussant: Prof. Lucy Riall (EUI)
10.15-10.45 Moritz Deutschmann,
Liberation through Empire? Slavery and Freedom in Russia’s Imperial Expansion
10.45-11.15 Tomasz Hen
Cossacks of Ukraine: ours, theirs or alien? Challenges and exchanges in the identity-building in the nineteenth-century Ukraine
11.45-12.15 Stephanie Lämmert
‘The normal peasant wants justice and rain’ : Contestation against unjust chieftaincy in the Usambara mountains in colonial Tanganyika
12.15-12.45 Roel Frakking
Contested discourses: Dutch plantations in the decolonization of the Netherlands East Indies 1947-1950
Sessoin IV The enduring legacies of empire in postcolonial times
Chair and Discussant: Prof. Dirk Moses (EUI)
14.45-15.15 Sharon Burke
The Role of the Pan-African Historical Consciousness in Anticolonial Ideology: The Case of CLR James
15.15-15.45 Frank Gerits
‘Decolonizing’ African Minds: Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism as an Interventionist Ideology (1957-1966)
16.15-16.45 Anaïs Angelo
Jomo Kenyatta and anthropology: from science of empire to postcolonial politics?
16.45-17.15 Trond Ove Tøllefsen
‘The natives of Trizonesia’ - The Imperial mind-set and British-German relations during the post-war occupation of Germany
17.15- 18.00 Final Discussion