Imperial Models in the Early Modern World Part 3 – From Early-Modern to Modern Empire and from Empire to Nation-State

Friday, April 27th

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks
Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Opening Remarks – Anthony Pagden , UCLA

Sir John Elliott, University of Oxford
Starting Afresh? The Eclipse of Empire in British and Spanish America

Sunil Agnani, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Jacobinism in India, Indianism in the English Parliament: Edmund Burke on Revolution and Empire

12:00 P.M.

1:30 P.M.

Robert Travers. Cornell University
The British Empire and the Mughal Legacy in South Asia

Jennifer Pitts, Princeton University
“Au nom de la France libre”: Nationality and Empire in Nineteenth-Century French Liberalism

Karuna Mantena, Yale University
Henry Maine, Social Theory, and the Transformation of British Imperial Ideology

5:00 P.M.

Saturday, April 28th

9:00 A.M

9:30 A.M.

Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia
Empires in Reverse: China and Japan in the Twentieth Century

R. Bin Wong, UCLA
Fiscal Legacies of Empire in Post-’49 China

Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Anti-Imperialist Empires: Ottoman and Japanese Lessons on the Nature of Modern Imperialism

12:30 P.M.

1:30 P.M.

Mark Mazower, Columbia University
The Nazi New Order and the End of European Imperialism

Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, New York University
Imperial Trajectories and Imaginaries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA
Closing Remarks