1. Imperial Ways of Knowing Blackness: Colonial Legacies of Demographic Visibility from Eighteenth-Century New Spain and New Granada • Juan D. Delgado, University of Michigan.

2. From Revolution to Development: Chronotype, Metapragmatics, and Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour • Eugene Yu Ji, The University of Chicago.

3. Inner Asian Nomadic Peoples, International Relations Theory, and the Geopolitical Imagination • Joseph MacKay, Australian National University.

4. Patronage and Empire: Evidence from the British Army • Gilad Wenig, University of California, Los Angeles.