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
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