Schedule

Claiming the World:
Universalisms as Doctrine and in Action
A Graduate Student Conference

Schedule

The conference will take place during the day of 27 March 2009.
Location: The Maison Française at Columbia is located on the main campus, just to the east of Low Library.

9:30-10:00 Breakfast

10:00-12:00: PANEL 1: SOVEREIGNTY AND DOMINION ACROSS EURASIA

“Indian Ocean ‘Piracy’ in the Second British Empire”
Abstract Paper
Simon Layton (University of Cambridge)
Commentary: Professor Adam McKeown

“Searching for the ‘Sahib-Qiran’”
Abstract Paper
Naindeep Chann (University of California, Los Angeles)
Commentary: Professor Gulnar T Kendirbai

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:00: PANEL 2: THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION AND NON-INTERVENTION

“The Limits of Global Intellectual Exchange: The International Prison Congress, 1872-1900”
Abstract Paper
Nir Shafir (University of California, Los Angeles)
Commentary: Professor Victoria de Grazia

“The Universalism of Horror? Discourses of Non-Intervention and International Law in Imperial Germany”
Abstract Paper
Steven Chase Gummer (Georgetown University)
Commentary: Professor Mark Mazower

“‘Africa can chiefly be helped by her own children’: Sierra Leonean Participation in Imperial Anti-Slavery, 1830-1885”
Abstract Paper
Bronwen Everill (King’s College London)
Commentary: Professor Christopher Brown

3:00-3:15 Coffee

3:15-5:15: PANEL 3: HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY

“From a Global War on Poverty to a Global War on the Poor: The Politics of Development in Robert McNamara’s World Bank”
Abstract Paper
Patrick Sharma (University of California, Los Angeles)
Commentary: Professor John Coatsworth

“From Accommodation to Conflict: Amnesty International and Iran, 1965-79”
Victor McFarland (Yale University)
Abstract Paper
Commentary: Professor Anders Stephanson

“Universalizing the Holocaust: Discourses of Genocide and Human Rights in the Biafran War (1967-1970)”
Abstract Paper
Lasse Heerten (University of Oxford/ Freie Universität Berlin)
Commentary: Professor Mahmood Mamdani

5:15-6:00 Reception

Please contact Stephen Wertheim at saw2156 at columbia dot edu or Aimee Genell at amg2159 at columbia dot edu for access to the papers.

Sponsored by The Department of History Board of Visitors, The Center for International History, Maison Française of Columbia University, The Lehman Center for American History and The European Institute.