In recent years, global history has become one of the most ambitious and promising strands of historical research. The approach targets relations, flows, and actors that challenge the assumption of the nation state as a natural and inevitable category of historical analysis. It calls attention to the importance of transnational, trans-regional, or trans-local connections and their influence on the past.
Our upcoming international Global History Student Conference 2017 on May 20th-21st acts as the point of departure for this issue, showcasing how global history is conceptualized and realized in different cultural contexts around the world. To that end, we encourage the submission of research articles related to (or critical of) global history. We suggest the following themes, which represent this year's conference panels, as a starting point for your consideration:
Global Spaces
Commodities in Transfer
Building Empires
Microhistory from a Global Perspective
Cultural Encounters
Medicine and Disease
Diplomacy and International Relations
Media and Representation
Identities in Diaspora
International Social and Political Movements
We also welcome the submission of history conference reviews. Please review a history conference which you have attended in the last year, focussing on how the conference was intellectually conceptualized and how it related to wider trends within the discipline of history.
Who We Are
Global Histories is a student-run open access journal based in the MA Global History program at Humboldt-Universität and Freie Universität in Berlin. We are looking for submissions from fellow students across the world for our journal's fourth issue which is to be published in October 2017.
Submissions
Article submissions should be 5000-7000 words and conference reviews 1000-1500 words. All submissions must be in English, follow the Chicago Manual of Style for footnotes and must not have been previously submitted for publication elsewhere. For more detailed information on our submission guidelines please consult:
http://www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GHSJ/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
Authors should register on our website www.globalhistories.com to submit their work via our online system.
Questions related to topics or submissions should be directed to submissions@globalhistories.com well in advance of the 10th July 2017 final deadline.