"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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