Histories of Globalization

Veranstalter
Center for Historical Studies University of Maryland
Veranstaltungsort
Taliaferro Hall
Ort
Maryland
Land
United States
Vom - Bis
26.09.2005 -
Von
Günther, Falk-Thoralf

The theme of the 2005-2006 Seminar Series in the Center for Historical Studies is "Histories of Globalization." Many scholars treat globalization as a process of recent vintage, a product of modern communcation and transportation networks that have rendered the movement of people, goods, and information so efficient that national boundaries and cultural differences are becoming less and less meaningful. This view of globalization as novelty, however, should provoke some close questioning by historians. First, treating globalization as a stricly contemporary affair shears this process from its historical roots. Can we understand the persistent hierarchies, inequalities, and frictions of this 'new world order' without reference to the historical processes and patterns that have preceded and influenced globalization in our time? Second, should we regard contemporary globalization as a singular and novel process, particular to the rise of the modern West, or merely as the latest wave in a series of 'globalizations' that have profoundly altered the way humans view their world?

The seminar series will provide a forum for historians, and historically-minded scholars in other disciplines, to address these questions, whether by examining the parallels and differences with earlier shifts in 'global' integration, by historicizing the current globalizing wave, or by considering the connections between past and present processes of globalization.

Seminar discussions are based on pre-circulated papers, which participants are asked to read in advance. Copies of the papers will be available in the History Department office ten days before each seminar or may be requested by email from historycenter@umd.edu.

Programm

Monday, September 26
SEMINAR
“The Shameful Times of Torture and Terrorism”
Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Temma Kaplan, Rutgers , State University of New Jersey

Monday, October 17
SEMINAR
"Vermeer's Hat, Vermeer's Dish: An Intercultural History of the 17 th Century"
Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia

Monday, November 14
SEMINAR
"Wal-Mart: How Ozark Parochialism Succeeds in the Global Marketplace”
Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California , Santa Barbara

Monday, November 21
FACULTY WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
"The Portrait of the Intrepid Mariner Simão, or, Social and Visual Histories
of the Luso-Atlantic at the End of the Slave Trade "
Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Daryle Williams, University of Maryland

Monday, December 5
SEMINAR
"The Origins of European Economic Integration, 1000-500 BC"
Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
George Grantham, McGill University

Kontakt

Barbara Weinstein,
Professor of History,
University of Maryland

historycenter@umd.edu
phone (301) 405-8739

http://www.history.umd.edu/HistoryCenter/news/index.html