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Global History Colloquium in Summer Term 2026

Global History Colloquium in Summer Term 2026

Global History Colloquium in Summer Term 2026

News vom 08.04.2026

Convened by Sebastian Conrad and Marcia Schenck, the Global History Colloquium in summer term 2026 invites students, scholars, and the wider public to engage with cutting-edge research in global history. Bringing together international speakers at various stages of their careers, the colloquium offers a dynamic platform for presenting ongoing projects and fostering critical discussion. Covering diverse themes and perspectives, it highlights the interconnectedness of historical processes across regions and time, while encouraging lively academic exchange in an open and collaborative setting.

Location: Koserstraße 20, A336

28 April, 4-6pm, c.t.

Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Stanford University)
Mother Africa, Father France: Multiracial Identities, Childhood, and Citizenship between French-Speaking West Africa and France

30 April, 4-6pm, c.t.

(Thursday)

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe (Freie Universität Berlin)
Kommentar von Agnieszka Wierzcholska (SciencesPo, Paris)
Polnische Bürgermeister und der Holocaust

5 May, 4-6pm, c.t.

Sue Peabody (Washington State University)
A Rhetoric of Microhistory: Truth and Stories

12 May, 4-6pm, c.t.

Nana Osei-Opare (Rice University)
Socialist De-Colony: Black & Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War

19 May, 4-6pm, c.t.

Derek Penslar (Harvard University)
Palestine, 1948: A Local and Global War

26 May, 4-6pm, c.t.

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (The University of Colorado, Boulder)
The Holocaust: A Global History

16 June, 4-6pm, c.t.

Riley Linebaugh (University of Potsdam)
Curating the Colonial Past: Global Perspectives on Colonial Archives

17 June, 6-8pm, c.t.

(Wednesday, Lecture hall A)

Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
The Object of History: How Things Can Help Us Write Early Modern History

23 June, 4-6pm, c.t.

Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh)
Age of Identity: Democracy and Difference in Contemporary Europe

8 July, 5pm

(Wednesday; venue: University of Potsdam)

Sheldon Garon (Princeton University)
Toward a Global History of the Second World War

14 July, 4-6pm, c.t.

Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
Time and History in a Planetary Age
*Discussion of pre-circulated texts

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