All panels will be held in the Belfer Case Study Room, S-020, on the lower floor of the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), located at 1730 Cambridge Street. (Map)

Friday, February 8

9:30 am Light Breakfast

10:00-10:30 am Welcome and Introduction

Sven Beckert, Harvard University
Dominic Sachsenmaier, Duke University

10:30 am-12:30 pm National and Global History: Connections, Departures, Tensions

Chair: Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University

Jie-Hyun Lim
Hanyang University, South Korea
Tensions Between National and Transnational Paradigms in Contemporary East Asian Historiography

Jürgen Osterhammel
Universität Konstanz, Germany
The Burden of Tradition: German-Language Contributions to World History and Global History

Selçuk Esenbel
Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Global History, Transnational History, and the State of Historiography in Turkey

Comment: Sugata Bose, Harvard University

12:30-1:30 pm Break for Lunch

1:30-3:30 pm Re-Conceptualizing Regional Histories in New Global Contexts

Chair: Vincent Brown, Harvard University

Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Macquarie University, Australia
'Writing the Globe from the Edges': Approaches to the Making of Global History in Australia

Q. Edward Wang
Rowan University, USA and Peking University, China
The Rise of Great Powers = The Rise of China? The Transition from World History to Global History in the PRC and its Political Implications

Jerome Teelucksingh
University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
From Periphery to Prominence: Caribbean History on the Global Stage

Commentator: Hsiung Ping-Chen, National Central University, Taiwan

3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break

4:00-6:00 pm Great Themes of Global History and the Emergence of Transnational Academic Communities

Chair: Sven Beckert, Harvard University

Marcel van der Linden
International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands
The Globalization of Labor and Working-Class History: An Exploratory Historiography

Ibrahima Thioub
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal
Local and Global Perspectives on the African Historiography of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Kenneth Pomeranz
University of California, Irvine, USA
Scale, Scope, and Scholarship: Regional Practices and Global Economic Histories

Comment: Charles Maier, Harvard University

Saturday, February 9

8:30 am Light Breakfast

9:00-11:00 am Local Settings, Global Views

Chair: Bruce Mazlish, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gareth Austin
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Global History as a Project: Methodological, Historiographical, and Institutional Perspectives

Shigeru Akita
Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University, Japan
World History and the Creation of a New Global History: Japanese Perspectives

Bénédicte Zimmermann
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
Histoire Croisée and the Fabric of Global History

Comment: Andreas Eckert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

11:00-11:30 am Coffee break

11:30 am-1:00 pm Global Networks, Global Perspectives

Chair: Matthias Middell, Universität Leipzig and Duke University (visiting)

Diego Olstein
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Varieties of Globalization: Regional Perspectives, Analytical Approaches, and Pending Debates

Adapa Satyanarayana
Osmania University, India
Situating Indian Migrations in Global History: A Regional Perspective

Comment: Erez Manela, Harvard University

1:00-2:00 pm Break for Lunch

2:00-4:00 pm The Struggle for Local Perspectives on Global History

Chair: Dominic Sachsenmaier, Duke University

John D. French
Duke University, USA
Another World History Is Possible: Latin Americanist Reflections on Translocal, Transnational, and Global History

Ricardo Salvatore
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
Hemispheric versus National Histories: Historians from the U.S. and Latin America Revisit the Spanish Colonial Empire

David Simo
University of Yaounde, Cameroon
African Self-Writing, or African Discourses on Africa and Global History

Comment: David Armitage, Harvard University

4:00-4:30 pm Coffee Break

4:30-5:30 pm Closing Remarks and Discussion

Sven Beckert, Harvard University
Dominic Sachsenmaier, Duke University