Thursday, 27 August
14:00 INTRODUCTION
14:30: Session 1: CLASS AND POLITICS
Chair: David Motadel (Edinburgh/Cambridge)
Houchang Chehabi (Boston University): The Rise of the Iranian Middle Class and the State
Murat Siviloglu (Istanbul): The Emergence of an Ottoman Middle Class: A State Endeavour?
Coffee break
Adam Mestyan (Harvard): Charity and patriotism: The Religious Culture of the Ottoman Arab Middling Classes in the Nineteenth Century
Christof Dejung (Cambridge/Konstanz): Global Civilizing Missions and Class Politics in Europe
18:30: KEYNOTE
Richard Drayton (London): The Emergence of a Global Bourgeoisie and the Question of Social Order in the Long Nineteenth Century
Friday, 28 August
9:30: INTRODUCTORY DISCUSSION
Jürgen Osterhammel (Konstanz): Chair and Comment to the Keynote and the Discussions of Day 1
10:30 Session 2: CLASS AND CAPITALISM
Chair: Christof Dejung (Cambridge/Konstanz)
Janet Hunter (LSE): Modern Business and the Rise of the Japanese Middle Classes
Coffee break
Rebecca E. Karl (New York University): Compradores: The Mediating Middle of Capitalism in China’s early Twentieth Century
Chambi Chachage (Harvard): Alcohol Consumption and the Cultural Rise of Capitalism in Colonial Tanzania
13:00 Lunch break
14:30: Continuation of Session 2:
Sven Beckert (Harvard): The American Bourgeoisie and the World in the Age of Empire
15:15: Session 3: CLASS AND COLONIALISM
Chair: Jürgen Osterhammel (Konstanz)
Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue): Rereading Gramsci in Colonial Calcutta: Class location, Class Formation and Ideology
Coffee break
Emma Hunter (Edinburgh): Modernity, Print Media and the ‘Middle Class’ in Colonial East Africa
Bernhard C. Schär (Zürich): Science and Supremacy: The Nature-Nurture Controversy and Imperial Protestantism, c. 1870-1880
Saturday, 29 August
9:30 Session 4: FAILURES AND FRINGES
Chair: David Motadel (Edinburgh/Cambridge)
Alison K. Smith (Toronto): The ‘Missing’ or ‘Forgotten’ Middle of Imperial Russia
David S. Parker (Queen’s): Latin American Middle Classes Confront the Paradigm of the Failed Bourgeoisie
Kris Manjapra (Tufts): Studying the Global Bourgeoisie by Fraction: Difference and Entanglement in the Making of Radical Modernism
12:30 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION