Panel 1: Empires in the International Marketplace

Matthew Mosca (Harvard University)

Sino-Liuqiu Relations and Western Imperialism, 1844-1850.

Commentary: R. Bin Wong (University of California-Irvine)

Megan Thomas (Cornell University)

Is 'K' a Foreign Agent: Tagalog Orthography and the Criterion for Being 'Spanish'.

Commentary: Akira Iriye (Harvard University)

Robert Cliver (Harvard University)

Tremors in the Web of Trade: Complexity, Connectivity, and the Mid-Eighth Century Restructuration of the Eurasian World.

Commentary: Michael McCormick (Harvard University)

Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner

Keynote Address: Sugata Bose (Harvard University)
"A Poet in the International Marketplace of Ideas: Rabindranath Tagore's Oceanic Voyages"

Saturday, April 20

Panel 2: Interwar Encounters with Global America

Rachel Malcolm-Woods (University of Missouri, Kansas City)

Kirchner and the Bangwa Dancer.

Commentary: Ben Hett (Harvard University)

Roger Chapman (Bowling Green State University)

The Irate London Tourist: Dostoyevsky and the Crystal Palace.

Commentary: Susan Pedersen (Harvard University)

Anna da Silva (Rutgers University)

Translating Science: Evolutionary Theories and Public Debates in Russia, 1860-1880.

Commentary: Matt Connelly (Columbia University)

Panel 3: Promotion in the International Marketplace

Brian Etheridge (Ohio State University)

International (Public) Relations: The Roy Bernard Co. and the Marketing of the German Nation to the American People, 1950-1969.

Commentary: Frank Ninkovich (St. John's University)

Alyosha Goldstein (New York University)

'Imponderable Resources' and the Productivity of Culture in Cold War Inter-America.

Commentary: Emily Rosenberg (Macalaster College)

Panel 4: Commodities Exchange in the International Marketplace

D.G. Ierapetritis (University of the Aegean, Greece)

Western Travellers and Geographers of the Eastern Mediterranean--The Globalisation Pioneers: The Case of the Mastic Gum Trade during the 17th-19th Century.

Commentary: Sven Beckert (Harvard University)

David C. Johnson (Texas Christian University)

Caught in the Middle: Internationalization and the Guatemalan Coffee Economy, 1893-1908.

Commentary: Paul Gootenberg (State University of New York, Stony Brook)

Holger Nehring (University College, Oxford)

The Social and Cultural Bases of a Transnational Marketplace: West European Steel Manufacturers and European Economic Integration, 1900-1952.

Commentary: Ernest May (Harvard University)