1. Laura Doyle, "Inter-Imperial Dialectics: The Past in the Present " • Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

2. Ho-Fung Hung, “A Tale of Two Imperial Rivalries: From the Early Twentieth-Century UK-Germany Antagonism to the Early Twenty-First-Century US-China Tension” • Ho-Fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University.

3. George Steinmetz, “Theorizing Colonial Crisis: European Sociology in the Overseas Colonies, 1930s-1960s” • George Steinmetz, University of Michigan.

4. Zophia Edwards, “’Our Oil Is Empire Oil’: War and Worker Mobilization in 1930s Trinidad and Tobago" • Zophia Edwards, Johns Hopkins University.