Chair: Marielle Masolo

Hatem Hamdi (Independent Researcher), Circulating knowledge in Colonial Contexts: Swiss Hoteliers and the Making of Hotel Governance in Tunisia (late nineteenth-mid-twentieth century)

Yasser Alvi (University of Cambridge), Infrastructure Finance and British Economic Statecraft in Egypt, 1875–1882

Kanika Godara (Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University), Land, Water, and Commons in the Aravalli Range: Meo–Mewati Agro-Pastoral Practices and the Contestation of Environmental Knowledge in North India

Chair: Halcyon Matthews

Christina Apostolidou (Ionian University), Making Medical Knowledge Public: Health, Print, and Authority in Interwar Urban Contexts

Muhimin Wanchoo (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati), Knowledge in Motion: Women's writing and The Making of Muslim Modernity

Chair: Akshaj Awasthi

S. Shiraz Ali (University of California, Berkeley), The Verifiers’ Code: Intimacy and Exchange in the Intellectual Networks of Mughal North India

Koen van der Lijn (Leiden University), Brokering Empire: Leiden-trained Sinologists as Recruiters and Inspectors of Chinese Labour Migration 

Chair: Asmita Sarkar

Ömer Çetin (Istanbul University), Plowing the Sahel: Technology, Ecology, and Colonial Development in French West Africa

Kunjunni Sajeev (French Institute Pondicherry/Ghent University), Iberian scientific world encountering Traditional Ecological Knowledge of South West India: Analysing Garcia D’Orta’s Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India (1563)

Aleksandra Kaye (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology) and Patcharaviral C. Schuessler (Chulalongkorn University), Scientific Forestry in Circulation: Transnational Tropical Forestry and Teak Management in the case of Siam

Chair: Asma Shakeel

Natalia Hildebrand (University of Oxford), Learning Revolution: Cuba, Algeria, Vietnam, and the Making of ANC–PLO Solidarity, 1964–1982

Shuang Wen (New York University Shanghai), The Comparable “Other”: The First Sino-Japanese War 1894-95 in the Eyes of Arab Intellectuals at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Chair: Qianyi Zhang

Xitong Ma (University of Oxford), Circulating Knowledge between Oxford and the Levant: Edward Pococke and the Making of Seventeenth-Century Oriental Studies

Jilian Ma (Koç University),Writing China into World History: The Production of Scholarly Knowledge in the Late Ottoman Empire

Apeike Umolu (University of Cambridge),Anglo-Africanism and the Politics of Linguistic Knowledge in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

Chair: Sana Shah

Morris Chou (University of Edinburgh), ‘To the Villages: Negotiating State-building through Rural Encounters in 1930s Nationalist China

Rodrigo de la Flor (University of Oxford), The Chilean Postal Service and Empirical Administrative Knowledge, 1850-1860