Introductory Remarks

Ed Miller (Harvard University)

Panel 1: Revolt and Coercion

Chair: Sugata Bose (Harvard University)

Xiuyu Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)

Qing China's Control Capabilities in Eastern Tibet in the 1900s.

Commentary: Mark Elliott (Harvard University)

Aslihan Akisik (Harvard University)

The Empire of Trebizond and the World-Trade System of the Fourteenth Century.

Commentary: Michael McCormick (Harvard University)

Daniel Barnard (University of Chicago)

Al-Thawra Al-'Iraqiyya Al-Kubra (The Great Iraqi Rebellion): Resistance to British Occupation of Iraq, 1919-1920.

Commentary: Erez Manela (Harvard University)

Panel 2: Conquest or Conversion

Chair: David Armitage (Harvard University)

Christa B. Dierksheide (University of Virginia)

A Sense of the Empire: Missionaries, Protectors of Slaves, Amelioration and Authority in Early Nineteenth Century British Guiana.

Commentary: Vincent Brown (Harvard University)

Muhamad Ali (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Colonial Transformation and Radicalized Religion: The Dutch in Indonesia and the Spanish in the Philippines in the Nineteenth Century.

Commentary: Mark P. Bradley (Northwestern University)

Benjamin G. Martin (Columbia University)

"European Culture" and Imperial Control: Nazi Germany and the Cultural Institutions of the "New Europe", 1940-1945.

Commentary: David Blackbourn (Harvard University)

Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner

Keynote Address: Niall Ferguson (New York University)

Colossus or Goliath? American 'Empire' in International Historical Perspective

Saturday, March 20

Panel 3: Empires by Information

Chair: Dominic Lieven (London School of Economics)

Monica Ricketts (Harvard University)

Transnational Factions During the Breakdown of the Spanish Empire. Peru and Spain, 1808-1824.

Commentary: Ken Andrien (Ohio State University)

David Reeves (UC Santa Barbara)

On Nationality and Empire: The All-Union Census of 1926 in Soviet Azerbaijan.

Commentary: Terry Martin (Harvard University)

Bob Morrissey (Yale University)

Quieting the "Isle of Noise": Forging Loyalty and Imperial Control in the Eighteenth Century Illinois Country.

Commentary: Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)

Panel 4: Empires by Invitation

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

Erik W. Esselstrom (UC Santa Barbara)

Japanese Colonial Police and Korean "Collaborators" in Manchuria: The Case of the Mansu Hominkai, 1920-1924.

Commentary: Daniel Botsman (Harvard University)

Adam K. Marshak (Yale University)

The Dated Coins of King Herod: Roman Client Kingship, Accommodation and the Power of Image in the Herodian Dynasty.

Commentary: Christopher Jones (Harvard University)

Thomas W. Gijswijt (University of Heidelberg)

American Hegemony in Western Europe? The Role of the Bilderberg Group, 1954-1966.

Commentary: Charles Maier (Harvard University)

Plenary Session

The Empires Strike Back?: The Contemporary Relevance of Imperial Histories

Chair: Ernest May (Harvard University)

Sugata Bose
Harvard University

Mark P. Bradley
Northwestern University

Niall Ferguson
New York University

Dominic Lieven
London School of Economics