Introductory Remarks

Ernest May (Harvard University)

Panel 1: Law and Order

Chair: KC Johnson (Brooklyn College)

Megan Williams (Columbia University)

‘A Pilgrimage for the Sake of Religion’?: Violations of Diplomatic Immunity and the Pilgrim’s Staff in a Divided Europe, 1526-41.

Commentary: Paul Schroeder (University of Illinois)

Lisa Ford (Columbia University)

Subjects of Empire: Empire and the Contest of Rights on the Colonial Frontiers of Georgia and New South Wales.

Commentary: Niall Ferguson (Harvard University)

Pär Cassel (Harvard University)

Executing Extraterritoriality: Sino-Japanese Relations under the Treaty of Tianjin, 1871-95.

Commentary: John Schrecker (Brandeis University)

Panel 2: The Machinery of Order

Chair: Marwa Elshakry (Harvard University)

Vanessa Ogle (Free University of Berlin)

Empires of Time: Global Histories of Clock Times and Calendars around 1900.

Commentary: David Landes (Harvard University)

Jennifer Spohrer (Columbia University)

International Order in the Radio Spectrum.

Commentary: David Nickles (Office of the Historian)

Andrew Russell (Johns Hopkins University)

Technology and Hierarchy in Europe and the United States: Standardization in Digital Networks.

Commentary: Thomas Eisenmann (Harvard University)

Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner

Keynote Address: Akira Iriye (Harvard University)

International Order and Transnational Order

Saturday, March 19

Panel 3: Dealing with Discontent

Chair: Sugata Bose (Harvard University)

Mark Lewis (UCLA)

International Terrorism in the 1920s and ’30s: The Response of European States through the League of Nations and the Attempt to Create an International Criminal Court.

Commentary: KC Johnson (Brooklyn College)

Carrie Endries (Harvard University)

Disrupting Order?: Anti-Nazi Organizations in Latin America in the 1940s.

Commentary: Fernando Coronil (University of Michigan)

Daniel Sargent (Harvard University)

The United States and the Reconfiguration of International Economic Order, 1965-1971.

Commentary: Charles Bright (University of Michigan)

Panel 4: Ideas and Ideologies of Order

Chair: Brad Zakarin (Harvard University)

Knox Peden (UC Berkeley)

Realism and Materialism: Or, What Does Spinoza Tell Us about International Politics?

Commentary: David Armitage (Harvard University)

Catherine Dunlop (Yale University)

Constructing an Esprit Européen: The Role of Cultural Policy in European Integration, 1946-1950.

Commentary: Charles Maier (Harvard University)

Valentine Cadieux (University of Toronto)

The Dissolution of Sprawl, the Abstraction of Nature, & Post-Colonial Negotiation of the ‘Urban Fence’ Ideology.

Commentary: Margaret Crawford (Harvard University)

Plenary Session

The Question of Order

Chair: Charles Maier (Harvard University)

David Armitage
Harvard University

Paul Schroeder
University of Illinois

Charles Bright
University of Michigan