Opening: Munich Centre for Global History
International Workshop "Consolidating Global History: Perspectives and Challenges" and opening of the Munich Centre for Global History
08.05.2019 – 09.05.2019
Programme
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Workshop
Historisches Kolleg, Kaulbachstraße 15, 80539 München
- 13.00-13.30: Welcome by Roland Wenzlhuemer (Munich)
- 13.30-15.00: Panel 1 – Chair: Benedikt Stuchtey (Marburg)
- Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Basle): On missing links in Global History
- Sebastian Conrad (FU Berlin): Global History and the Specter of Centrisms
- Stefanie Gänger (Cologne): Flowing in Circles. Notes on the Language of Global History
- Comment: Cyrus Schayegh (Graduate Institute Geneva)
- 15.30-17.00: Panel 2 – Chair: Julia Angster (Mannheim)
- Tonio Andrade (Emory): New Directions in Old Fields: Global History and Military and Diplomatic History
- Angelika Epple (Bielefeld): Family constellations: global microhistory and its big siblings
- Juliane Schiel (Vienna): Global Labour History: Achievements and New Challenges
- Comment: David Motadel (LSE)
- 18.00: Informance
- Jazz – The Classical Music of Globalization by Reinhold Wagnleitner and Günter Wagnleitner (Salzburg)
- Followed by dinner in a nearby restaurant
Thursday, 9 May 2019
Workshop
Historisches Kolleg, Kaulbachstraße 15, 80539 München
- 9.00-10.30: Panel 3 – Chair: James Livesey (Dundee)
- Anne Gerritsen (Warwick): Materiality and Global History
- Michael Goebel (Graduate Institute Geneva): Crossroads and Loggerheads: On Cities and Global History
- Giorgio Riello (Warwick): The Root of the Problem: Global History and the European “Rust Belt”
- Comment: Richard Drayton (King’s College London)
- 11.00-12.30: Panel 4 – Chair: Matthias Middell (Leipzig)
- Ulrike Lindner (Cologne): Global History and Empire
- Harald Fischer-Tiné (ETH Zurich): Marrying South Asian History and Global History: Potential and limits of a Global Microhistory
- Kiran K. Patel (Maastricht): Positioning Europe in Global History
- Comment: Valeska Huber (FU Berlin)
- 12.30-13.00: Closing comments by Johannes Paulmann (Mainz) and Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
Afternoon Programme
Seidlvilla, Kulturzentrum, Nikolaiplatz 1B, 80802 München
Introduction of the Munich Centre for Global History’s transfer projects: "Children’s exhibition: A History of Globalization in the 19th Century" and "App-based City Tour GLOBAL MUNICH"
Opening of the Munich Centre for Global History
Historisches Kolleg, Kaulbachstraße 15, 80539 München
- 18.30-19.00: Welcome
- 19.00-20.00: Keynote speech
- Sunil Amrith (Harvard): Rethinking the Port City in Global History
- Followed by a reception at the Historisches Kolleg
Please register via email (globalhistory@lmu.de) or phone (+49 89 2180 2960) as space is limited at the Historisches Kolleg.