#  "WHAT WAS THE 20TH CENTURY? A ROUNDTABLE EVENT IN HONOR OF CHARLES S. MAIER" 

 



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 **April 12, 2014** 

 11:00AM - 06:00PM EDT 

 



 

"What was the 20th Century? A roundtable event in honor of Charles S. Maier"  
This event brings together distinguished historians from across the USA for a dual purpose. First, we want to honor Charles S. Maier for his 75thbirthday in 2014. At the same time, we aim to priovide a venue for reflections about the state of the field of those historiographies to which Charles Maier has substantially contributed: European history, global and international history, and the history of political economy. The event is open to the entire Harvard community.

Location:Lower Level Conference Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way

PROGRAM:  
  
11:00am Welcome and Introduction (Heidi Tworek and Stefan Link)

11:15am ROUNDTABLE I: TRANSFORMATIONS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY  
Chair: David Armitage (Harvard)  
Catherine Epstein (Amherst): “Mastering German Pasts”   
Laura Beers (American University): “Recasting Modern Britain”  
John Connelly (Berkeley): “Recasting Habsburg Europe”  
Andrew Port (Wayne State): “In Search of a Masterable Past”   
Peter Baldwin (UCLA): “Leaving Boundaries Behind”

 1:15pm LUNCH

 2:15pm ROUNDTABLE II: HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY  
Chair: Sven Beckert (Harvard)  
Vanessa Ogle (UPenn): “Consigning Capitalism to History”  
Stefan Link (Dartmouth): “The Age of Distribution”  
Daniel Sargent (Berkeley): “American Century?”

 3:15pm COFFEE

 3:45pm ROUNDTABLE III: EMPIRE AND TERRITORIALITY  
Chair: Niall Ferguson (Harvard)   
Ian Klaus (State Department): “Maierian Geometry”  
Jeffrey Richter (GWU): “Justice Among Empires”  
Susan Pedersen (Columbia): “When Empire Stopped Working”  
Alison Frank Johnson (Harvard): “Culture and Commerce in European Empires”  
Heidi Tworek (Harvard): “Alternative Narratives for a Territorial Era”

 5:45pm Charles S. Maier: Response

 6:00pm RECEPTION

Sponsors:   
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs  
Weatherhead Initiative on Global History  
Harvard History Department

Contact: Heidi Tworek, <hevans@fas.harvard.edu>



 

 



 

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