10h keynote

Cyrus Schayegh - Graduate institute of international and development studies (Geneva)

11h-12h30 panel I:

• “Insect pests beyond borders: economic entomology as a trans-imperial science”
  Tomas Bartoletti, University of Zurich
• “A taste for mocha. Competing for the coffee trade in the eighteenth century”
  Guillemette Crouzet, European university institute in Florence
• “A shared knowledge? Science, education and inter-imperial cooperation in late colonial Africa”
  Damiano Matasci, university of Genève

14h-15h30 panel II:

• “Sea-border and air-space formation in the interwar middle east: a trans-imperial perspective”
  (project presentation), Jordi Tejel, UniNE
• “Beirut during the mandate: a nexus for trans-imperial pilgrimage”
  Carl Abi Hanna, UniNE
• “The trans-imperial biography of Pinchas Rutenberg”
  David Motzafi-Haller, UniNE