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)

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: Malavika Pillai

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

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: Suchintan Das

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

Professor Erica Charters (University of Oxford)

Knowledge Between War and Peace: Eighteenth-Century Maps and Censuses of Empire