Program

Day One—Friday, March 2, 2018

8:00 AM

Breakfast and registration

9:00 AM

Welcome and opening remarks
Niall Ferguson

9:15 – 10:00 AM

Session 1: Undead Rome: the Decline, Fall and Afterlives of the Roman Empire?

Presenter:	Tom Holland
Commentator:	Peter Frankopan
Chair:	Niall Ferguson

10:00 – 10:45 AM

Session 2:Is Trumpism Merely Populism revisited?

Presenter:	Eric Rauchway
Commentator:	Daniel Sargent
Chair:	Niall Ferguson

10:45 AM

Break

11:15 – 12:00 PM

Session 3: The China Story

Presenter:	Frank Dikötter
Commentator:	Arne Westad
Chair:	Robert Zoellick

12:00 – 1:30 PM

Lunch
Discussion with Aaron O’Connell and Fredrik Logevall: Déjà Vu All Over Again? Vietnam, Afghanistan and the Search for Lessons in History

Chair:

Graham Allison

1:30 – 2:15 PM

Session 4: The Ecological Origins of Economic and Political Systems

Presenter:	Stephen Haber
Commentator:	Ian Morris
Chair:	Peter Frankopan

2:15 – 3:00 PM

Session 5: Kicking Away the Ladder? Cryptocurrencies in Historical Perspective

Presenter:	Tyler Goodspeed
Commentator:	Barry Eichengreen
Chair:	Michael Bordo

3:00 PM

Adjourn

4:45 - 5:45 PM

Tour of Hoover Archives
Eric Wakin

5:45 – 6:30 PM

Session 6: Is Putin's Russia a Potemkin Power? Leadership, Succession and Russian Foreign Policy

Presenter:	Christopher Miller
Commentator:	Stephen Kotkin
Chair:	Amir Weiner

6:30 – 7:30 PM

Reception

7:30 – 9:30 PM

Dinner

Day Two—Saturday, March 3, 2018

8:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 – 9:45 AM

Session 7: The History of the Future

Presenter:	Matthew Connelly
Commentator:	Christopher Clark
Chair:	Mary Sarotte

9:45 – 10:30 AM

Session 8: Thinking Historically: A Cold War Historian's Reflection on Policy

Presenter:	Francis Gavin
Commentator:	Marc Trachtenberg
Chair:	Arne Westad

10:30 AM

Break

11:00 – 11:45 AM

Session 9: How Might 21st-Century Deglobalization Unfold?

Presenter:	Stefan Link
Commentator:	Norman Naimark
Chair:	Marc Trachtenberg

11:45 – 12:30 PM

Session 10: Same As It Ever Was: The History of Inequality and Mobility

Presenter:	Gregory Clark
Commentator:	Glen O’Hara
Chair:	Harold James

12:30 PM

Lunch
Discussion with Philip Zelikow and Robert Zoellick: Applied History in Washington since c. 2000

1:30 – 2:15 PM

Session 11: Wine and Winning: From Muhammad to the Islamic State, a Tangled Relationship

Presenter:	David Cook
Commentator:	Emile Simpson
Chair:	Sean McMeekin

2:15 – 3:00 PM

Session 12: Defeating an Idea: What the Cold War Can Teach Us About How States Fight Ideologies

Presenter:	Jeremy Friedman
Commentator:	John Bew
Chair:	Philip Zelikow

3:00 PM

Adjourn