Plenary Forum on 'Empires and Colonies'

This Plenary Forum was a special event accompanying the "Third
European Congress in World and Global History" at the London School
of Economics, 14-17 April 2011. Hosted by the German Historical
Institute London and kindly supported by Campus Verlag, Princeton
University Press and Cambridge University Press the Plenary Forum
on 'Empires and Colonies' took place Friday, 15 April, 6.30-8.30
pm. Three outstanding scholars in the field - Frederick Cooper (New
York University), John Darwin (University of Oxford), and Regina
Grafe (Northwestern University) - discuss various, possibly
contradicting approaches to imperial and colonial history, chaired
by Peer Vries (University of Vienna).