International Summer School: Global History in the 2020s (Leiden University, 27-29 June 2023)

International Summer School: Global History in the 2020s (Leiden University, 27-29 June 2023)

Organizer
Anne-Isabelle Richard (Leiden University), Katja Castryck-Naumann (GWZO Leipzig), Katrin Köster (Leipzig University) (European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), The Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, the Graduate School Global and Area Studies Leipzig, and the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH))
Host
European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), The Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, the Graduate School Global and Area Studies Leipzig, and the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH)
ZIP
2311 GW
Location
Leiden
Country
Netherlands
Takes place
In Attendance
From - Until
27.06.2023 - 29.06.2023
By
Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig

In this summer school we bring together PhD candidates from around the globe to discuss the state of the art in global history and bring together a next generation of global historians. As well as focusing on the content of the work of the PhD Candidates, the aim of the summer school is also explicitly to root this next generation of global historians in the field, in terms of literature and in creating a network of scholars.

International Summer School: Global History in the 2020s (Leiden University, 27-29 June 2023)

Global History has become a much-debated field. Is it about globalisation, is it a method, a subject matter, all of the above? Over the last two decades global historians have outlined topics and approaches that set the foundations for a transforming field. Transcending national frameworks, challenging Eurocentric narratives and tracing border-crossing connections and interactions between societies, communities and individuals, as well as decentred comparisons are some of its common denominators that have gained substance through particular case studies. As the field moves towards the end of its second decade, we want to bring together a next generation of global historians and interrogate what are the purposes, possibilities, limits of global history? Doctoral researchers who explore global, transregional and transnational perspectives in their dissertations are key for forming these avenues and for reflecting on the related conceptual debates and socio-political conditions of writing world and global histories.

With that in mind, the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) is happy to announce its summer school in partnership with The Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, and the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) on 27-29 June. 22 international PhD students will present on-going research exploring relations, transfers and entanglements between actors or groups of actors located in, or spanning, different regions of the world allowing for comparative and longue durée conversations. The summer school provides the perfect platform to kick-start a week of intense discussions that will culminate in the 7th European Congress on World and Global History (29 June – 1 July 2023).

In this summer school we bring together PhD candidates from around the globe to discuss the state of the art in global history and bring together a next generation of global historians. How do you position yourself in the field? How can you frame your research in relation to ongoing discussions in the field of global history? How do you get published? As well as focusing on the content of the work of the PhD Candidates, the aim of the summer school is also explicitly to root this next generation of global historians in the field, in terms of literature and in creating a network of scholars.

Programm

TUESDAY 27 June

12.30 Opening

12.45-14.45 Panel “Transnational and Anti-Colonial Solidarities I”
Commentator: Paul Kramer (Vanderbilt University)

Thomas van Gaalen (Radboud University, Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis): “Universal Emancipation”? Transatlantic Solidarities in the Curaçaoan Radical Movement, 1900-1940

Seung Hwan Ryu (Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Free University Berlin): _Self-reliance as a Transnational Project: Political, Economic, and Intellectual Exchanges between North Korea and Tanzania (1975-1985)

Julia Lange (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich): Solidarity and Knowledge: Linking Early Twentieth-century Anarchism in China and Spain

14.45-15.00 Coffee Break

15.00-17.30 Panel “Transnational and Anti-Colonial Solidarities II”
Commentator: Katrin Köster (Leipzig University)

Sander van der Horst (Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Huizinga Institute for Cultural History): Beyond the Moral Violence of Nations - A Critical Historiography of Peace Activism in the Decolonizing World

Poorvi Bellur (Princeton University): One Umma under God: Islamic Theories of Solidarity in Anticolonial Thought across South Asia and Egypt

Ryoya Mizuno (London School of Economics): Toynbee in Japan: A Reassessment of His World History in Global Contexts in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Deniz Ali Gür (Leipzig University): Ahmed Rıfkı (1884-1935): A Late Ottoman Bektashi Sufi Agent of Cultural Transfer

17.30-17.45 Coffee Break

17.45-18.45 Information and Preparation of the Presentation for the Opening of the ENIUGH Conference

19.00 Dinner

WEDNESDAY 28 June

8.30-10.30 Panel “Gender”
Commentator: Maria Framke (Erfuhrt University)

Izabel Barros (Centre of International History and Political Studies of Globalization University of Lausanne): Incentivizing Births and Female Slave Agency on a Swiss-owned Plantation in Brazil from 1836 to 1851

Laura Cox (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): Anti-Apartheid’s Orators: The Discursive and Material Impacts of International Fora on South African Women in the African National Congress, 1980-1990

Seungho Lee (Sogang University): Deconstructing the Nationalistic Image of the “Comfort Women”: Vernacular Memory Covered by Nationalism

10.30-10.45 Coffee Break

10:45–12:45 Panel “Trade”
Commentator: Pepijn Brandon (Free University Amsterdam)

Ansgar Engels (Leipzig University): The Ambivalences of Spanish Mercantilism. Contesting Ideas of Colonial Trade between Venezuela and Spain in the 18th Century

Geng Hui (Hanyang University) Online: A Study on the Collection and Payment of Tonnage Dues and Special Surtax at the Chinese Maritime Customs of Tianjin: 1861-1948

Shih-Yu Juan (Brown University/ International Institute for Asian Studies (llAS) Leiden: Orders from a Chinese Arsenal: Transnational and Domestic Trade Networks of Scientific Products in Late Nineteenth-Century China

12.45–13.45 Lunch Break

13.45–15.45 Panel “Development, Science and Technology in Society”
Commentator: Joshua Mentanko (Leiden University)

Karina Khasnulina (Leipzig University): Plowing China with an Iron Ox: From Japanese Colonial Politics to the Early Cold War Development

Gabriella Rago (University of Turin): Fusion Valley. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and the Territories (2006-2012)

Wessel de Cock (Humboldt University Berlin): The Global in the Local: Understanding the 1990s Global Neuro-Turn Through Transfer, Competition and Collaboration

15.45–16.00 Coffee Break

16.00–16.45Roundtable with Editors on Publishing in Global History Journals
(Incoming) Editors: Katja Castryck-Naumann (Comparativ, Leipzig University Press, ENIUGH), Elizabeth Leake (Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press), Anne-Isabelle Richard (Itinerario, Cambridge University Press)

16.45–17.45 Preparation of the Presentation for the Opening of the ENIUGH Conference

18.00 Pizza and Discussion on “From PhD to Postdoc”

THURSDAY 29 June

08.30-10.30 Panel “Health and Disability”
Commentator: Steven Jensen (Danish Institute for Human Rights)

Floris Plak (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Disability and Self-Governance: a Global Microhistory of Het Dorp Community and its Cultural Heritage since the 1960s

Boglárka Körösi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): State Socialist Hungary’s Experimental Barrier-free Housing Project at the UN International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP) 1981. A Local Misinterpretation of the Global Concept of “Full Participation and Equality

Perseverence Madhuku (Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies): Selective Silencing? Global Smallpox Eradication and Vaccine Supply in Southern Africa

10.30-10.45 Coffee Break

10.45-12.45 Panel: “The built environment and the (inter)national political imagination”
Commentator: Andreas Weiss

Felicitas Remer (Free University Berlin, Graduate School for Global Intellectual History): Nationalism, Nation-State Formation, and Territorialization in Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities: The Case of Jaffa-Tel Aviv, ca. 1890-1929

Ian Lewis (Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH), University of Amsterdam): The Transnational Circulation of Political and Architectural Models across Continents: The Case of Japan’s Appropriation of the Architecture of Political

Daniel Quiroga (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva): ‘Through the International Labyrinth’: Building International Geneva (1926-1938)

12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.15 Closing Session
16.30-17.30 Presentation at the Opening of the ENIUGH Conference in The Hague.

Contact (announcement)

headquarters@eniugh.org

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09.06.2023
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