28 Oct 2019: Christopher Hill (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) - Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers’ Conference on the problem of Japanese war responsibility (pre-circulated paper, please request paper at globalgeschichte@geschkult.fu-berlin.de)

4 Nov 2019: Sarah Bellows-Blakely (Freie Universität Berlin) - Fighting poverty with Girl Power? Austerity in Economic Development from Nairobi to Beijing 

11 Nov 2019: Andrew Hurrell (University of Oxford) - Global History and the place of the international 

5 Dec 2019: Peer Vries (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) - The Great Divergence after 20 years (FMI Midterm Lecture)

9 Dec 2019: Cyrus Schayegh (Graduate Institute, Geneva) - On scale: Some preliminary thoughts  

20 Jan 2020: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University) - Turning the ‘Primitive’ on its head: Migrating concepts in Global (Art) History 

4 Feb 2020: Margaret Hunt (Uppsala University) - Temporalities and travel in the early modern world (with Claudia Jarzebowski and Alexander Schunka) 

10 Feb 2020: Jan Jansen (German Historical Institute Washington) - The Age of revolution and its refugees: Microhistorical perspectives