The King’s College-Georgetown University Global History Forum
September 16-17, 2010
Copley Formal Lounge
Georgetown University
Empires and Globalizations in the Making of the Modern World
Thursday, September 16, 2010
12:30 pm Inauguration, President John DeGioia, GU
Aviel Roshwald, Chair, History Department, GU
12:45 pm Keynote Address Richard Drayton, King’s College London “Trans-Imperial History: The Interaction of European Empires during the British Ascendancy, 1750-1830”
Part I
Empires and Early Globalizations
2:00 pm Session I: Atlantic Empires—and Beyond
“Diseases of Empire, Empires of Disease: The Americas, 1492-1900,” John McNeill, GU
“The Spanish Empire: Silver, Monarchy, and the Origins of Global Capitalism,” John Tutino, GU
Chair and Discussion Leader: Bryan McCann, GU
4:00 pm Session II: Eurasian Empires—and Comparisons
“England's Global Forays: Massacres and Transitions in the 1620s,” Alison Games, GU
“Military Competition and the Fate of Empires: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective,” Gabor Agoston, GU
Chair and Discussion Leader: James Millward, GU
6:00 pm Reception
Friday, September 17, 2010
Part II
Modern Empires and Accelerating Globalizations
10:00 am Session III: Recasting European Empires
“Civilizing Europe: Napoleon’s Grand Empire, c. 1800-1815”Michael Rowe, KCL
“An Empire of Indecision: Global Governance in British South Asia” Jon Wilson, KCL
Chair and Discussion Leader: Osama Abi-Mershed, GU
1:30 pm Session IV: The End of Empires?
“Coal, Oil, and the Sinews of Imperial Power in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” David Painter, GU
“Between Empires and Nation States: Conflicted Loyalties and Shifting Identities in Interwar Eurasia,” Aviel Roshwald, GU
“Globalization and British Decolonizations,”
Sarah Stockwell, KCL
Chair and Discussion Leader: Shobana Shankar, GU
4:00 pm Closing Reception, ICC Galleria
