Modern Germany, Italy and Japan:

Towards a New Perspective

FRIAS Schoolof History, Freiburg
14.06.2012-15.06.2012,

Freiburg, FRIAS,

Albertstr. 19, Seminarraum EG

THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 2012

2.00pm–3.00pm: Introduction
Modern Germany, Italy and Japan: Previous
Approaches and New Perspectives

Lucy Riall (FRIAS/Birkbeck University of London)
Jan Rüger (Australian National University/Birkbeck University of London)
Naoko Shimazu (BirkbeckUniversity ofLondon)

3.00pm–5.00pm: Session 1:
Intellectual exchanges

Chair: Naoko Shimazu (BirkbeckUniversity ofLondon)

Reto Hofman (Columbia University):
Japanese Intellectuals and the Negation of Fascism, 1937-1943

Jan Schmidt (University of Bochum):
Future Inevitabilities and the Cassandra Complex – The Next War Envisioned by Military and Bureaucratic Elites inJapan andGermany during the Interwar Period

Benjamin Martin (Uppsala University):
‘Inter-Nationalism’ and Europeanism: Reflections on the Nazis and Fascists’ Own Models of International Cultural Exchange

Comment: Martin Baumeister (University ofMunich)

5.30pm–7.00pm: Keynote lecture

Chair: Ulrich Herbert (FRIAS)

Sheldon Garon (Princeton University):
Transnational ‘Fascism’: One Perspective fromJapan

FRIDAY, 15 JUNE 2012

9.00 am–11.00 am: Session 2:
Settlement projects and colonial contexts

Chair: Christian Goeschel (AustralianNationalUniversity)

Patrick Bernhard (FRIAS/University of Freiburg):
From Libya to Poland: Italian Colonialism as a Model for German Planning in Eastern Europe

Roberta Pergher (Kansas University):
Race, Nation, and Empire – Fascist Answers to Interwar Questions

Jun Uchida (Stanford University):
Educating the Scions of Ōmi merchants for Empire: Regional Imaginations of a Japanese Colonial
Diaspora

Comment: Sebastian Conrad (Free University ofBerlin)

11.30am–1.00pm: Session 3:
Political entanglements and cultural transfers

Chair: Jan Rüger (AustralianNationalUniversity/BirkbeckUniversity ofLondon)

Christian Goeschel (Australian National University):
The relationship between Mussolini and Hitler before 1933

Daniel Hedinger (Humboldt-University of Berlin):
The Abyssinian War and the Formation of the Axis Powers

Comment: David Laven (University ofNottingham)

2.00pm–4.00pm:
Round table and final discussion

Chair: Lucy Riall (FRIAS/BirkbeckUniversity ofLondon)

Harald Fuess (University of Heidelberg)
Louise Young (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Adrian Lyttelton (John Hopkins University, Bologna)
Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan)
Sven Reichardt (FRIAS/University of Constance)

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