Day 1: 25 May 2023
9.30 (CET)
Registration

10.00–10.15
Welcome & Greetings
Anna Hofmann (ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius),
Norman Aselmeyer (University of Bremen),
Hubertus Büschel (University of Kassel),
Jonathan Fine (Weltmuseum Wien)

10.15–11.00
OPENING LECTURE
Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University)
Global History Now – Again

11.00–11.30
Tea & Coffee Break

11.30–13.00
ROUNDTABLE
Global History at the Crossroads: Where Do we Stand?
Moderation: Lucy Riall (European University Institute, Florence)

Richard Drayton (King’s College London)
Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Florida)
Martina Kaller (University of Vienna)
Rila Mukherjee (University of Hyderabad)
Carmen Nava (California State University San Marcos)
Akita Shigeru (Osaka University)

13.00–14.00
Lunch Break

14.00–16.00
PANEL 1: Politics of Global History
Chair: Eric Burton (University of Innsbruck)

Adrián Lerner Patrón (University of Cambridge/Freie Universität Berlin)
The Politics of Global History: The Question of Primacy

Kaveh Yazdani (University of Connecticut)
Periodizing Global History, Deprovincializing the West and Universalizing the “Rest”

Ye Liu (New School for Social Research)
Historicizing Decolonization: Between the Actual and Fictive Others

Alessandro Stanziani (EHESS)
The Problem with (Euro)centrism

16.00–18.00
Tea & Coffee Break
Guided Tour Weltmuseum Wien (for conference speakers only)

18.00–19.30
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge)
The Global and the Earthy

Day 2: 26 May 2023

9.30–11.30 (CET)
PANEL 2: Methods and Sources of Global History
Chair: Julia Hauser (University of Kassel)

Pol Dalmau & Jorge Luengo (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
National Histories Go Global: A Futile Endeavour?

Chao Tayiana Maina (African Digital Heritage, Nairobi)
Plurality and Purpose: Digital Methodologies for Community Based Histories

Agata Błoch (Polish Academy of Sciences) & Demival Vasques Filho (IEG Mainz)
Big Data, Natural Language Processing Methods and Sources in Global History

Fabio Santos (Freie Universität Berlin)
Global History Against the Archival Grain: Critical Fabulation as Decolonial Method

11.30–11.45
Tea & Coffee Break

11.45–13.15
PANEL 3: Systems of Knowledge
Chair: Valeska Huber (University of Vienna)

Delia González de Reufels (University of Bremen)
Reinventing Global History? Historians of Latin America and a Controversial Field of Historic Research

Joshua Meeks (U.S. Naval War College, Newport)
Blood and Stone: Ontology, History, and the State

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of Bayreuth)
(Re)provincializing Europe and (De)provincializing Africa: A Contribution Towards Decolonizing Global History

13.15–14.15
Lunch Break

14.15–16.15
PANEL 4: Narratives and Languages of Global History
Chair: Karolin Wetjen (University of Göttingen)

Anwesha Ghosh (National Law School of India University, Bangalore)
Living in Italics: Southern Vocabulary and the Politics of Untranslatability

Nora Lafi (ZMO, Berlin)
Challenging the Global Narratives of Global History: An Exploration of Alternative Paths from the Arab World

Sisay Megersa Dirirsa (Bielefeld University)
The Ambivalence of Global History and the Deficit of the “Post-Colonial:” Is a Pluriversal History Possible?

Ann McGrath (The Australian National University, Canberra)
Temporalities and Historicities: What “Primitive Earth” Carried Across
Hemispheres

16.15–16.30
Tea & Coffee Break

16.30–18.30
PANEL 5: Topics and Concepts of Global History
Chair: Sasson Sofer (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Chelsea Schields (University of California, Irvine)
The Body Corporate: Sexuality and the Business of Empire in Global History

Cassandra Thiesen-Mark (University of Bayreuth)
From Illusions of Universality Towards an Innovative, “Incomplete” Global History

Luise White (University of Florida)
Optical Illusions: African Wars and Global Guns

Joël Glasman (University of Bayreuth)
Beyond Global Citizenship: Four Forms of Impacts of Global History

18.30–20.00
ROUNDTABLE & FINAL DISCUSSION
Whither Global History: Does the Field Have a Future?
Moderation: David Motadel (LSE)

Christian de Vito (University of Bonn)
Toyin Falola (University of Austin)
Valeska Huber (University of Vienna)
Dilip Menon (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Hermann Mückler (University of Vienna)