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This conference, and the volume that will result from it, will argue, in contrast to much of the existing literature, that much of what is allegedly distinctly &#34;European&#34; is the result of interactions between particular European regions and other parts of the world. It will show that the efforts to write a history of Europe confined to its own ill-defined boundaries might serve particular political needs of the contemporary moment, but is, in fact, historically inaccurate.ProgrammeFriday, May 28, 201010-10:15&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Welcome        Sven Beckert            Dominic Sachsenmaier            Julia Seibert    10:15-12:15 &#160;&#160; Economic Development; Science Chair: Ibrahima Thioub, Universit&#233; Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal        Aditya Mukherjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India: &#34;Colonial &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; India in the World Economy and the Shaping of the Modern British             Marcel Ngandu Mutombo, University of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo: &#8220;La D&#233;pendance de la Belgique du Congo&#8221;            Ken Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine, USA: &#34;A New World of Growth: European Industrialization in Global ContextEconomy&#34;             Pratik Chakrabarti, University of Kent, UK: &#8220;Globalization, Science and the History of Conquest: The Non-West and the making of Western Sciene.&#8221;    Comment: Marcel van der Linden, Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands2 &#8211; 4 PM&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; State FormationChair: Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany         Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University, USA: &#8220;The Extra-European Origins of European Revolutions&#8221;            Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota, USA, &#8220;Imperial Governance and the Shaping of the Modern European State System&#8221;             Lim Jie-Hyun, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea: &#8220;The Impact of Colonialism on European Forms of Mass Dictatorship&#8221;&#160;    Comment: Mridula Mukherjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India&#160;6 PM&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Keynote Address&#160;        Enrique Dussel, Universidad Aut&#243;noma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico, &#8220;Modern Europe in World History: A Non-Eurocentric Interpretation&#8221;&#160;    Saturday, May 29, 2010&#160;&#160;9.00 - 11:00 AM Ideas and Political CulturesChair: Mridula Mukherjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India        Selcuk Esenbel, Bogazici University, Turkey: &#8220;The Global Dimensions of European Nationhood&#8221;            Lamin Sanneh, Yale University, USA: &#8220;The Papacy and Lessons from Africa: Gray&#8217;s Anatomy of Christianity&#8221;             Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, USA: &#8220;Making Subjects: The Role of Colonialism in European Mass-Education Programs&#8221;     Comment: David Simo, Universit&#233; de Yaound&#233;, Cameroon11:15 &#8211; 1:15&#160; &#160; Society and Culture Chair: David Simo, Universit&#233; de Yaound&#233;, Cameroon        Marcel van der Linden, Institute for Social History, Netherlands, &#8220;Outside In: How Colonial Managers and Workers Shaped European Labor Relations&#8221;            J&#252;rgen Osterhammel, University of Constance, Germany, &#8220;Global Horizons of European Music-Making, 17th to Early 20th Century&#8221;            Naomi Davidson, University of Ottawa, Canada, &#8220;Colonial Islams, Metropolitan Islams: Secularism and the Nation in France and Britain?&#8221;            Jorge Liernur, Centro de Estudios de Arquitectura Contempor&#225;nea de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, &#8220;The Extra-European Origins of European Modernism.&#8220;    Comment: Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, USA2:30 PM &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Concluding Discussion3:30 PM&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; End of conference