During the past few years, historians in many different parts of the world have sought to internationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Their work increasingly transcends the history of particular nation-states and instead investigates transnational, transoceanic and other long-distance connections throughout human history. As part of this newly emerging global orientation, a growing number of scholars have contributed to an already substantial body of methodological and conceptual literature on global history. However, these debates on transnational and global history are far from being global in their own discourses—quite to the contrary, they remain largely confined to national or at most regional conversations. The conference seeks to establish an international dialogue between different regional and conceptual approaches to global history by bringing together practitioners from all continents.

The conference is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. Please, visit the congress homepage with the address given below.

Field of Interest: Global Issues

Conference Chair:
Beckert, Sven: Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Professor of American History, Department of History, Harvard University
Sachsenmaier, Dominic; Assistant Professor of History, Duke University

Confirmed Conference Participants

Shigeru Akita
Professor of British Imperial History
Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University, Japan

Gareth Austin
Reader in Economic History
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Sven Beckert (Co-Chair)
Professor of History
Harvard University, USA

Selçuk Esenbel
Professor of History
Boðaziçi University, Turkey

John D. French
Associate Professor of History
Duke University, USA

Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Associate Professor of Modern History
Macquarie University, Australia

Lim Jie-Hyun
Professor of History
Hanyang University, South Korea

Diego Olstein
Lecturer in History
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Jürgen Osterhammel
Professor of History and Sociology
Universität Konstanz, Germany

Kenneth Pomeranz
UCI's Chancellor's Professor of History
University of California, Irvine, USA

Ricardo Salvatore
Professor of History
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina

Dominic Sachsenmaier (Co-Chair)
Assistant Professor of History
Duke University, USA

Adapa Satyanarayana
Professor of History
Osmania University, India

David Simo
Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Culture
University of Yaounde, Cameroon

Jerome Teelucksingh
Lecturer in Caribbean and European Histories
University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

Ibrahima Thioub
Professor of History
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal

Marcel van der Linden
Professor of History
International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands

Q. Edward Wang
Professor of History
Rowan University, USA and Peking University, China

Bénédicte Zimmermann
Professor of Sociology
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France