4. Themes of World History, Part III

Panel 32: Early Modern and World Wars in Translocal Perspective: Representations and Experiences from the South

Saturday, 24 September
09 H 00 - 12 H 00 AM

This panel brings together contributions that focus on non-European representations and experiences of wars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It aims at showing the way in which translocal move- ments generated by wars translate into experience in terms of effects or discursivity. As wars accelerated and obliterated ongoing social transformations, they caused forced and often violent encounters between actors from diverse backgrounds. The panel touches upon issues such as tensions within the respective armies arising from mutual interaction, but also civilian war experiences. It encourages readings of the discursive rationalization of violence, societal mobilization and control.

Chair:
Katrin Bromber (Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin)

Panelists:
Dyala Hamzah (Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin), Katharina Lange (Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin), Michelle Moyd (Cornell University/ Program for Advanced European Studies Berlin), Dirk Sasse (Münster), Thomas Speckmann (Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bonn)

Panel 33: International Organizations

Saturday, 24 September
09 H 00 - 12 H 00 AM

This panel will address various endeavors of cross-border cooperation and, at the same time, consider the success and failure. Key issues of the debate will be the tensions of nationally conditioned interests and international ambitions as well as the bargaining between liberalization and admittance on the one hand and between protectionism and demarcation on the other. Cooperation is exemplifi ed by cases from the economy, from social work, church and politics.

Chair:
Helke Rausch (Universität Leipzig)

Panelists:
Horst Jesse (München), Aysen Dilek Lekon (Istanbul), Henner Stieghorst (Universität Marburg), Welf Werner (International University Bremen)

Panel 34: Global Football - Cultural Exchange and Political
Project

Saturday, 24 September
09 H 00 - 12 H 00 AM

Every country on earth today has a football association affiliated to the Fédération Internationale de Football Association and everywhere football is played according to the same rules which are laid down and administered by FIFA. The same holds true for all levels of the game from the World Cup held every four years, to the humblest local league. The world-wide spread of the game which was originally “invented” in England is partly connected with processes of internationalization. These include the growth of commercial relationships and the concomitant mobility of the elite classes at the end of the 19th century, the waves of emigration and the creation of immigrant areas in the metropolitan centers of Europe and overseas and, fi nally, the growing broadcasting capacity of television. On the other hand, the triumphal march of football after 1945 has taken place against the background of long-term political changes on a global level, particularly the general acceptance of the principle of the nation state and of decolonization. It is thus possible to identify interested political parties which have played a part in the deliberate development policies of football. These include individual politicians and football offi cials from the so-called third world, but above all FIFA which, in the course of the 20th century, has grown into a form of non-governmental organization with respect to football.

Chair:
Franz-Josef Brüggemeier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

Panelists:
Fabio Chisari (Catania/De Montfort University Leicester), Paul Dietschy (Université de Franche- Comté Besançon), Christiane Eisenberg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Pierre Lanfranchi (De Montfort University Leicester), Matthew Taylor (University of Portsmouth)

Panel 35: Global Labor History: The Research Program
of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Saturday, 24 September
09 H 00 - 12 H 00 AM

In this panel the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam will present its research program on Global Labor History (GLH), which it has been developing since the late 1990s (see www.iisg.nl/research). The program’s activities include the preparation of world-wide data bases (e.g. on wages and prices over the last seven centuries), comparative studies of occupational groups (dockers, textile workers, etc.), research into so-called commodity chains as temporal sequences of modes of labor control, and studies comparing labor processes in several parts of the world (e.g. brick making). The panel will portray several of these projects and will discuss the theoretical and methodological challenges that accompany them.

Chair:
Marcel van der Linden (International Institute of Social History Amsterdam)

Panelists:
Els Hiemstra (IISG Amsterdam), Jan Lucassen (IISG Amsterdam), Ratna Saptari (IISG Amsterdam), Marcel van der Linden (IISG Amsterdam), Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (IISG Amsterdam), Jan Luiten van Zanden (IISG Amsterdam)

Panel 36: Entracing Intellectual Property. The Institutionalization of Author Rights between Nationalization, Internationalization and Globalization (18th to 20th centuries)

Saturday, 23 September
09 H 00 - 12 H 00 AM

“Intellectual property” structures the culture of the 20th century in terms of space and time. It determines processes of innovation and traditionalization in knowledge and culture as do processes of differentiation, particularization and universalization of values, symbolic orders and artefacts. In the panel, social and cultural historians, musicologists and political scientists will investigate the entracing of intellectual property addressing problems of comparison, transfer and entanglement. The time span reaches from early national laws and bilateral agreements to author rights and copyright, through the foundation of the multilateral Bern Agreement of 1887 to the establishment and expansion of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in the late 20th century. The focus will be on the long 20th century.

Chair:
Hannes Siegrist (Universität Leipzig)

Panelists:
Jeanette Hofmann (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung), Friedemann Kawohl (Villingen/ Freiburg), Isabella Löhr (Universität Leipzig), Hannes Siegrist (Universität Leipzig), Matthias Wießner (Universität Leipzig)

Panel 37: Mission and Missionary Work. Approaches to a Global Phenomenon

Saturday, 24 September
09 H 00 - 12 H 00 AM

Since the end of the 16th century, Jesuits have been active in all parts of the world. In an effort to globalize Christianity they set up missions in Latin America, China and North America. The panel will analyze those missions as well as the Steyler Mission in China with a special emphasis on the mutual infl uence of the missionaries’ global impulse and self-perception and the local societies. Topics covered include the interactions between local actors and the missionaries, the missionaries’ discourse strategies, their perceptions of the experienced cultural contacts, and the impact of those experiences on global and local missionary strategies. The panel aims at a methodological and theoretical conceptualization of the local and
global dimensions of missionary history conceived as global history.

Chair:
Mechthild Leutner (Freie Universität Berlin)

Panelists:
Bernd Hausberger (Freie Universität Berlin), Ursula Lehmkuhl (Freie Universität Berlin), Mechthild Leutner (Freie Universität Berlin), Klaus Mühlhahn (University of Turku)

Panel 38: Gender and World History

Saturday, 24 September
09 H 00 - 12 H 00 AM

This panel will explore how gender relations evolve when different cultures come into contact with one another. Whether European or non-European, contemporary or ancient, societies rely on the functioning of established and widely accepted power relations of gender and the generated ideas about economic or political issues. Migration and war, the exchange of goods and the transfer of technical, scientifi c and economic knowledge have always challenged the existing gender relations, transformed and revolutionized them. Starting from different geographic spaces and from different epochs, this panel will examine the impacts of the transfer of gender relations both for the importing as well as for the exporting society.

Chairs:
Ida Blom (Universitetet i Bergen - tba), Ruth-Stephanie Merz (Universität Leipzig)

Panelists:
Ida Blom (Universitetet i Bergen - tba), Ruth-Stephanie Merz (Universität Leipzig), Tine de Moor (Universiteit Utrecht), Peter Stearns (George Mason University, Washington D.C. - tba), Jan Luiten van Zanden (IISG Amsterdam)

Panel 39: Economic History

Saturday, 24 September
09 H 00 - 12 H 00 AM

This panel will bring together contributions to the relationship of economy and culture in global exchange. The Great Depression of 1929 and thereafter was a worldwide phenomenon, but how those involved reacted to the unprecedented challenge of the capitalist system in the countries concerned in order to become capable of acting and to get control of the situation, is a question that is being debated today and will be discussed by the panel. Furthermore, the historic dimension of intercultural competence and its practical signifi cance will be demonstrated by theoretical premises of Interculturality Research and reinforced with examples from the Siemens and BMW enterprises throughout the 20th century. Finally, the discussions held by European trade unions in the 20th century on coordinating their politics with the American automobile companies of Ford and General Motors will be compared.

Chair:
Markus A. Denzel (Universtität Leipzig)

Panelists:
Werner Berg (Albert-Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg), René Del Fabbro (Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau), Thomas Fetzer (European University Institute Florence)