Global History: Remapping Categories and Concepts
October 3-4, 2024. ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ (Kingston, Ontario).
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Invited Speakers
Sven Beckert
Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University
research interests: 19th century United States, capitalism
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paper title: How to Write the Global History of Capitalism
Maxine Berg
Professor of History, University of Warwick
research interests: early modern Asia and Europe, history of knowledge, history, and technology, material culture, historiography
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paper title: Global History and Early Modern Capitalism: Sugar, Cotton and Industrialization
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, University of Chicago
research interests: modern South Asia, history and historiography, postcolonial studies, globalization, climate change
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paper title: The Planetary Turn in Human History: A Personal Journey
Jo Guldi
Full Professor of Quantitative Methods, Emory University
research interests: machine learning, statistics, big-data methods, history of the state and experience of the landscape
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paper title: A World of Land
Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Bradley Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Australia
research interests: philosophy of history, historiography, history education
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paper title: Globalizing Historiography in the Age of Artificial Historians
Stefan J. Link
Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College
research interests: global political economy, intellectual history of capitalism, global economic history
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paper title: States in Global History: In Search of an Agenda
David B. MacDonald
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph
research interests: comparative Indigenous politics in Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States
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paper title: Unpacking Myths of Benign Foundation in Western Settler States
Julia McClure
Senior Lecturer (History), University of Glasgow
research interests: early modern global history of the Spanish Empire, poverty, charity, inequality, resistance, ecological impacts of imperialism
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paper title: The Failure of the West: Colonial Capitalism and the Climate Crisis
John R. McNeill
Distinguished University Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and College - Department of History, Georgetown University
research interests: environmental history, the Anthropocene, global cities, global history, world history
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paper title: Global Environmental History
Allan Megill
Professor, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
research interests: modern Europe, history of ideas, history theory, philosophy of history
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paper title: On ‘Global History’: What is Truly ‘Global’?
Heather Salter
Professor of History, Northeastern University
research interests: imperialism and colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries, anticolonial movements, South, East, and Southeast Asia, world history, pedagogy
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paper title: Historiographical Convergences in the Making of a Global History of Anticolonialism
Heidi Tworek
Associate Professor of International History and Public Policy, University of British Columbia
research interests: media and communications, history of technology, legal history, global history
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paper title: The State of Global History from a Journal Editor's Perspective