Chair: Avin Houro

Dr Paulina Dominik (European University Institute), ‘Revisiting the 1905 Global Moment: Anti-Imperialist Visions and Transregional Struggles from Central-Eastern Europe to the Middle East and North Africa’

Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), ‘Imagining Republican Asia: Xinhai Revolution and the Reorientation of Pan-Asian Networks’

Anna Nasser (University of Naples Federico II), ‘The imperial networks of the Association des Femmes de l’Union Française across colonial empires (1940s-1950s)’

Chair: Asma Shakeel

Saavani Karkhanis (University of California, Berkeley), ‘Music Makes the Home: Global Domesticity and the Making of the Kulin Woman in 19th Century Maharashtra’

Jiayao Jiang (University of Cambridge), ‘The African Quarter in Postwar Rome: The Memory of Empire in Urban Space, and Transnational Networks’

Rachel Yifei Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘Literary Production, Cultural Diplomacy, and Sovereignty: USIS’s Influence on Cold War Hong Kong’

Chair: Sana Shah

Xinyu Ma (Nankai University), ‘Knowledge Centers at the Margins of Empire: The Philippine Bureau of Science and the American Colonial Project (1898–1934)’

Dr Armel Campagne (University College Dublin), ‘Living the end of colonial Vietnam: French coal capitalists and the transition to postcolonial Vietnam (1945-55)’

Sun Zhijian (National University of Singapore), ‘Building Socialism on Ashes of Empire: The Chinese Tropicality and Infrastructural Investment in Socialist Dar es Salaam and Maoist Guangzhou’

Chair: Suchintan Das

Qianyi Zhang (University of Oxford), ‘Struggling for Agency on the Western Front: Chinese Labourers and their Resistance to British Imperial Management during the First World War’

Karen Sasakura (Hitotsubashi University), ‘The Impact of the U.S. Imperialist Intervention in the Vietnam War on Hmong People’s Citizenship - A Case Study of the Hmong in Minnesota’

Simple Rajrah (University of Oxford), ‘From Geneva to Philippines: Caste, race, sexuality and transnational solidarity’

Chair: Oonmona Das

Dr Debanjali Biswas (Bodleian Libraries), ‘Fallen Through Seams: Traveling Women Performers and Dangerous Reptile Acts in Britain (1895-1945)’

Anna Vangelatou (University of Cambridge and the British Museum), ‘End of Empire? The British Museum and the Struggles for the Woodhouse Antiquities Collection of Corfu, 1866-1868’

Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford), ‘Drawing Modernity in the Shadows of Empire: Visual Negotiations in Shanghai Manhua (1928–1930)’

Chair: Asmita Sarkar

Rukmini Chakraborty (European University Institute), ‘Enclosing the seas: Production of the “Bay of Bengal” as a cartographic entity (1765-1844)’

Marten Dondorp (Harvard University), ‘Between Colquhoun and Shaum: Riverine circulation struggles at the imperial meridian’

Chair: Adrita Mitra

Maria Murad (University of Oxford), ‘The Rise and Fall of the Colonial Administrative Services’

Julià Gómez Reig (European University Institute), ‘Fascist diplomacy and imperial imaginations: Italy, Spain, and the ‘hitch-hiking’ of Spain’s spiritual empire, 1923-1924’

Dr Giovanni Costenaro (Historical Archives of the European Union), ‘Eurafrica of Businessmen: The French Colonies, Transimperial Corporate Cooperation, and the Forgotten Late Imperial History of the EU, 1950–1962’

Chair: Dr Jonathan Krause (University of Oxford)

Prof Alan Lester (University of Sussex), ‘Everywhere and all at Once: The Global Restructuring of the British Empire’

John Pfumojena (University of Surrey), ‘Mbira Music: Beyond the Imperial Meridian’