Observing the First World War from its ‚Periphery’: Knowledge Transfer and the Transformation of Societies

Villa Boltzmannstr. 1, 14195 Berlin

Friday, 7 November 2014

13:00 – 13:30 Prof. Dr. Katja Schmidtpott (Freie Universität Berlin) & Dr. des. Jan Schmidt (Ruhr- Universität Bochum): Opening Remarks, introduction

13:30 – 14:00 Prof. Dr. Sheldon Garon (Princeton University): "Preparing the Home Front for Total War: What the Japanese Learned from World War I"

14:00 – 14:30 Discussion

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 15:30 Prof. Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn (Freie Universität Berlin): „China and the First World War: A Global Moment"

15:30 – 16:00 Discussion

16:00 – 16:30 Dr. des. Jan Schmidt (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): "Observing the War: Japanese Central and Local   Institutions and their Preparations for the Postwar World, 1914-1919"

16:30 – 17:00 Discussion

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 – 18:00 Prof. Dr. Katja Schmidtpott (Freie Universität Berlin): "Learning from Future Enemies: Efficiency Campaigns and the Transformation of Japanese Society after the First World War"

18:00 – 18:30 Discussion

19:00             Dinner (Restaurant Alter Krug, Dahlem)

Saturday, 8 November 2014

10:00 – 10:30 Morohashi Eiichi M.A. (Keiō University): "The Japanese Military and the General Mobilization Policy: New Tendencies in the Army Brought by the Experience of the First World War"

10:30 – 11:00 Discussion

11:00 – 11:30 Prof. Dr. Vincent Houben (Humboldt-Universität Berlin): "The First World War and Southeast Asia: Regional Dynamics of a Global Conflict"

11:30 – 12:00 Discussion

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch (Restaurant Délices Normands, Dahlem)

13:30 – 14:00 Dr. Ana Paula Pires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): "When Center meets Periphery: Portugal between Europe and Africa"

14:00 – 14:30 Discussion

14:30 – 15:00 Dr. Carolina García Sanz (Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma): "Belligerent Communities in Neutral Spain. A Case-study of Mobilization from Below"

15:00 – 15:30 Discussion

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30 Dr. María Inés Tato (Universidad de Buenos Aires): "The End of the Known World? The Great War Seen from Argentina"

16:30 – 17:00 Discussion

17:00 – 18:00 General Discussion: „The First World War and the Global Transfer of Knowledge"