“Age of Revolutions” or “World Crisis”? Global Causation,
Connection, and Comparison, c. 1760-1840

Friday, May 16th

9:30 A.M.

10:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Opening Remarks – David Armitage, Harvard University

Session 1 Chair: Marie-Christine Skuncke, Uppsala University and SCAS-Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala

Gary B. Nash, UCLA
Sparks from the Altar of ’76: International Repercussions and Reconsiderations of the American Revolution

Lynn Hunt, UCLA
The French Revolution in Global Context

Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University
Revolutionary Exiles: The American Loyalist and French Émigré Diasporas

1:00 P.M.

2:30 P.M.

Session 2 Chair: : Leos Müller, Uppsala University

Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
The Age of Imperial Revolutions

David Geggus, University of Florida
The Caribbean in the Age of Revolution

4:30 P.M.

Saturday, May 17

9:30 A.M

10:00 A.M.

Session 3 Chair: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia
The Historical Dynamics of the ‘Age of Revolutions’ in Africa

Juan Cole, University of Michigan
Hybridity and Difference in the French Republic of Egypt

Robert Travers, Cornell University
Imperial Repercussions: South Asia and the World, c. 1760-1840

1:00 P.M.

2:00 P.M.

Session 4 Chair: Max Edling, Uppsala University

Peter Carey, Trinity College, Oxford University
“Times that try men's souls”: Revolutionary Europe and the Destruction of Java's Old Order, 1808-1830

Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine
Their Own Path to Crisis? State-Building, Social Change, and the Limits of Qing Expansion, ca. 1785-1825