Friday 13 March
9:30 - 10 AM Light Breakfast for Participants
10:00AM-12:00PM – Panel 2: Succession
Moderator: Nicholas Purcell (Oxford)
Panayiotis Christoforou (Oxford)
“The Permanence of an Emperor in Transition?”
Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Harvard)
Succession through Ceremony: Reconstructing Byzantine Empire in Early Modern Europe”
Matt Reader (Cornell)
“The Autonomous Invention of the Ethnic Kingdom in 18th-Century Buddhist Southeast Asia”
Tehila Sasson (UC Berkeley)
“From Empire to Humanity: Decolonization and the Emergence of the
‘Humanitarian-International’”
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch for Participants
1:00-3:00PM – Panel 3: Territoriality
Moderator: Steven Press (Harvard)
Charles Bartlett (Harvard)
“Legal Pluralism and Territoriality in Roman Asia Minor”
Thomas Meaney (Columbia)
“A World of States: US Postwar Planners and the Reinvention of Trusteeship”
Timothy Sorg (Cornell)
“Empire at a Distance: Connectivity and Land-Allotment on the Athenian Frontier”
Rebecca Wall (Stanford)
“River Management Organizations between Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa”
3:00 - 3:30 PM - Coffee Break
3:30-5:00PM – Plenary Session
Mary Lewis (Harvard), Charles Maier (Harvard), Nicholas Purcell (Oxford)
