Thursday 16 May 2019
09.15-09:30
REGISTRATION
09:30 -10:00
Opening remarks: Moritz von Brescius (Bern)
10:00 – 12.30
Keynote Panel. Contextual biographies in theory and practice: approaches and challenges
Welcome & Chair: Christian Büschges (Bern)
Tony La Vopa (North Carolina State University): Self, Language, and Character in Biography
Andreas Fahrmeir (Frankfurt): Structural barriers to global biographies: States, distances, languages
12.30-14.00
LUNCH BREAK
14.00-16.00
Panel I: Scientific biographies in a global age
Commentary: Simona Boscani Leoni (Bern)
Martin Krieger (Kiel): Globale Vernetzung und personale Karrierestrategie: Nathaniel Wallich im Spiegel seines Briefnachlasses
Jakob Vogel (Paris): Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855): obstacles and limits of expert circulation between Europe and Latin America at the beginning of the 19th century
16.00-16.30
COFFEE/TEA
16.30 – 18:30
Panel II: Economic agents in a connecting world
Commentary: Christof Dejung (Bern)
William O’Reilly (Cambridge): Writing biography back in: the case of human traffickers in the 18th century
Marine Fiedler (Bern): Apprehending the tension between mobility and locality in a global context: The case study of a merchant family from Hamburg in colonial Singapore (1840-1914)
Christiane Berth (Bern): Global Trade Networks in Times of Crisis
Friday 17 May 2019
09.15-11.05
Panel II: Methods of biography writing
Commentary: Francesca Fuoli (Bern)
Nadja Ackermann (Bern): Ego-Documents as a Heuristic Key to the Praxeological Exploration of Premodern Self-Conceptions
Stefanie Mahrer (Bern): Professional networks and refugee scholars. A digital approach to the study of transnational biographies
11.05-11.20
COFFEE/TEA
11:20-13.05
Panel III: Biographies and political conjunctures
Commentary: Adrian Ruprecht (Bern)
Tanja Bührer (Bern): Imperial Careers and Information: European and Asian Diplomats at the Courts of Indian “Princes”, c. 1770-1815
Stella Krepp (Bern): “Underdeveloped Economists”: The Rise of Development Economists in Latin America, 1949-1964
13.05-14.30
LUNCH BREAK
14.30-16:30
Panel IV: Writing biographies in context
Commentary: Noémie Etienne (Bern)
Joachim Eibach (Bern): Alexander von Humboldt im Kontext: Sozialanthropologe, Ökologe - und Mensch
Victor Strazzeri (Bern): Locating Max Weber between fin de siècle Berlin and Cold War West Germany: Analytical itineraries and conceptions of space in the global reception of a classic
16.30-16.50
COFFEE/TEA
16.50
Concluding Session
Final comments: Rebekka Habermas (Göttingen)