The Conference at a Glance
Thursday, 14 April 2011
2.00-4.30 pm Conference Opening with Keynotes followed by a Tea Break
4.30-6.30 pm Parallel Panels I
6.30-20.30 pm Reception
Friday, 15 April 2011
9.30-12.00 am Parallel Panels II
12.15-1.15 General Meeting ENIUGH
1.30-3.30 pm Parallel Panels III
4.00-6.00 pm Parallel Panels IV
6.30-8.30 Plenary Forum on “Empires and Colonies”
Saturday, 16 April 2011
9.30-12.00 am Parallel Panels V
1.30-3.30 pm Parallel Panels VI
4.00-6.00 pm Parallel Panels VII
7.30 pm Conference Dinner Cruise
Sunday, 17 April 2011
10.00-11.45 am Parallel Panels VIII
12.00-1.00 pm Concluding Round table
Programme
Recent decades have seen the re-emergence and, on an unprecedented scale, the further development of various interacting strands of world, global and transnational history, all sharing the common aim of transcending national historiographies. Central to these intellectual enterprises has been the study of connections and comparisons. These perspectives provide for sustained reflection on a great variety of themes and studies.
Under the framework of “Connections and Comparisons” about 100 panels will present new findings on research topics, including the following:
- Entanglements between polities, societies, communities and individuals situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world
- Interactions between humanity and the environment, including those which developed over the very long term, through the cultural and economic histories of material and social life
- Histories of empires, large-scale crises, international organisations, and the intercontinental sources and consequences of revolutions, whether political, technological, social or ideological
- Exchanges on oceans as spaces of sustained interaction between communities from different continents, the experience and consequences of migration, periods of ‘de-globalisation’ and ‘globalisation’
Not least, this includes critical reflection on the methodological and conceptual issues involved in comparative, transnational and entangled histories: both in general terms as well as in relation to specific areas of historical inquiry, from religions to real wages and from diasporas to epistemic communities.
The common emphasis is a commitment to transcend national historiographies and explore different approaches to wide-ranging comparisons.
The conference will include keynote sessions as well as a series of parallel panels. Scholars practicing or interested in global, world and trans-national history from whatever discipline, based both within Europe and from around the world will attend the London congress.
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