Imperial Models in the Early Modern World Part 1 – Imperial Models and “Translatio imperii”: Rethinking the Early Modern World

Friday, November 3rd

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Clifford Ando, University of Chicago
Law, Memory and Sovereignty in the Roman Empire

Giulia Sissa, UCLA
The First Empire of Democracy, or the Athenian Exception

12:00 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

Ali Anooshahr, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Disclaiming Tamerlane’s Inheritance and the Rise of the Mughal Empire

Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
Disciplining in the Name of God: Sexuality and Social Control in Safavi Iran

4:00 P.M.

Saturday, November 4th

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

Aldo Schiavone, Istituto Italiano de Scienze Umane
The Roman Empire as World-Empire

Anthony Pagden, UCLA
The Shadow of Caracala: Citizenship and Divided Sovereignty in Europe’s Overseas Empires

12:00 P.M.

1:00 P.M.

David Armitage, Harvard University
The Elephant and the Whale: Empires of Land and Sea

Sankar Muthu, Princeton University
Global Commerce and Empire in Enlightenment Thought

Craig Yirush, UCLA
Conquest Theory and Imperial Governance in the Early Modern Anglo-American World

4:00 P.M.

Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA