International conference, organised by the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH, Website), the Institute for Economic and Social History of the University of Vienna (Website) and the Society for Social History, in co-operation with the Renner-Institute (Website).
Sponsored by Federal Ministry of Research, Municipal Culture Office of Vienna and Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft.
November 16-18, 2007
Venue: Gartenhotel Altmannsdorf, Hotel 2 (new building), Europasaal, Oswaldgasse 69/corner Hoffingergasse, A-1120 Vienna, Austria
Programm:
Friday, November 16, 2007
12.00 am – 7.00 pm:
Registration of the participants at Gartenhotel Altmannsdorf, Hotel 2, Europasaal
2.00 pm:
Conference Opening
Karl Duffek (Karl Renner Institute)
Josef Ehmer (Institute for Economic and Social History, Vienna University)
Berthold Unfried (International Conference of Labour and Social History)
2.30 – 4.30 pm:
SESSION I (Notions and concepts)
Johannes Paulmann (Historisches Institut, Universität Mannheim): National, international, transnational: Umrisse einer Kritik der transnationalen Ökumene
Comment: Jürgen Mittag
Christoph Boyer (Lehrstuhl für Europäische Zeitgeschichte, Universität Salzburg): Über Nutzen und Nachteil von Netzwerktheorien für die Geschichtswissenschaft
Comment: Wolfgang Neurath
4.30 – 5.00 pm: Break
5.00 – 7.00 pm:
SESSION II (Migrations of ideas, standards and practices)
Kees van der Pijl (University of Sussex): Transnational Classes and the Structure of the Global Political Economy
Comment: Karin Fischer
Ariel Colonomos (CNRS/Centre d’études et de recherches internationales, Paris): „Normativists in Boots“: Lawyers and Ethicists in the Military
7.30 pm: Dinner
Saturday, November 17, 2007
9.00 am:
SESSION III (Migrations of ideas, standards and practices)
Sebastian Schüler (Seminar für Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster): Die Transnationalisierung globaler Heilsgüter am Beispiel der Pfingstbewegung
Giuliana Gemelli (Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche, Università di Bologna): Academic networks as drivers of European scientific integration: the role of the Ford Foundation in shaping the agenda of political sciences
Maria Mesner (Stiftung Bruno Kreisky Archiv, Wien): Global Population Policy: Emergence, Function and Development of a Network
12.30 am: Break for Lunch
2.00 – 6.30 pm:
SESSION IV (Transnational knowledge networks)
Markus Kaiser (Zentrum für Deutschland- und Europastudien, St. Petersburg): Networks of Global and Local Experts in Development: Epistemic Machineries in a Global Context
Comment: Berthold Unfried
Dieter Plehwe (Social Science Research Centre Berlin, Department Internationalization and Organization): The transnational neoliberal Mont Pèlerin Society network of intellectuals and think tanks and transnational discourse structuration: Revisiting the „Washington Consensus“
Therese Garstenauer (Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien): Transnational networks: Im/Possibilities of Exchange between Soviet and ‚Western‘ scholars
7.00 pm: Dinner
Sunday, November 18, 2007
9.00 am:
SESSION V (Migrations of people)
Josef Ehmer & Annemarie Steidl (Institute for Economic and Social History, Vienna University): Networks in the history of migrations
Michael Twaddle (London): Indian migration networks in East Africa
Jean-Baptiste Meyer (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier): Diaspora Knowledge Networks: New Social Entities, New Policies
1.00 pm:
Final Discussion: Benefits and problems of a network-approach to the history of ‚Globalisation‘
2.00 pm: End of the conference