8.45-9.10

Registration

9.10-10.30

Welcome and Introduction

Keynote Lecture
Daniel Rodgers (Princeton University)
Bearing Tales: Networks and Narratives in Social Policy Transfer 

10.30-11.00

Tea/coffee break 

11.00-13.00

Transfers of Ideas about Society and Social Issues
Commentator:  Susan Pedersen (Columbia University)

Timothy Smith (Queen's University, Canada)
Best Practices and Worst Stereotypes: How Nationals Learn from Other Nations

James Thompson (University of Bristol)
Framing the Labour Question: Political Economy, Idea Transfer and Social Policy in Britain, 1870-1945 

Lawrence Goldman (University of Oxford)
The International Statistical Congress and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Statistics

13.00- 14.00 

Lunch 

14.00- 16.00

International Organisations and Universal Social Issues
Commentator: Pierre-Yves Saunier (CNRS, Lyon)

Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Wellcome Centre, UCL)
Troubled Transmissions, Unexpected Outcomes: World Health Organization networks, Disease Control and Eradication Policies, and their Impact on South Asia

Madeleine Herren (Heidelberg University)
Transcultural Bargaining with Trojan Horses: alternatives to the institutional history of international labour organisations?

Inderjeet Parmar (University of Manchester)
American Philanthropic Foundations and the Politics of International Knowledge Network-Construction in the Cold War

16.00 - 16.30 

Tea/coffee break

16.30 - 18.30

Exchanges on the Economics of Social Welfare
Commentator: Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck College, University of London) 

Martin Daunton (University of Cambridge)
Distributive Justice, Trade and Employment: Recreating the Global Economy after the Second World War 

David Todd (University of Cambridge)
Exchanges of Ideas about British Free Trade between France, Germany, and the United States, 1830-1870

Tamotsu Nishizawa (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
Economics of Social Reform across the Borders: Germany, UK and Japan around 1900

19.00 for 19.30

Conference Dinner at Trinity Hall

9.00-10.30

Exchanges within Federal States and across Empires
Commentator: Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge)

Eddy Rogers (University of Cambridge)
A ‘Most Imperial Contribution’: New Zealand and old-age pensions in Britain, 1898-1908 

Erik Grimmer-Solem (Wesleyan University)
Reform Redux: the Second Life of the German Social Question in the Colonies, 1900-1918

10.30-11.00

Tea/coffee break

11.00-13.00

Transfers of Social Policy Ideas
Commentator: Paul-André Rosental (Le'cole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

Maria-Sophia Quine (University of East Anglia)
Social Modernity Italian-Style: Welfare Policy from Liberalism to Fascism in Trans-national Perspective 

Julia Moses (University of Cambridge)
Workplace Accidents, Transfer of Ideas and Convergence in European  Welfare Policy, 1870-1930 

Stein Kuhnle (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin)
The early formative years of Scandinavian welfare states and the impact of ideas from outside            

13.00-14.00

Lunch 

14.00-14.30