CALL FOR PAPERS (pdf)

   European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)

Recent decades have seen the re-emergence and, on an unprecedented scale, the further development of various interacting strands of world, global and trans-national history, all sharing the aim of transcending national historiographies. Connections and comparisons have been central to these intellectual enterprises. The third European Congress on World and Global History, to be held in London at the LSE in April 2011, provides an opportunity for sustained reflection on these themes. 

Following an excellent response to our earlier Call for Panels, we now cordially invite paper proposals for examining comparisons, connections and entanglements between polities, societies, communities and individuals situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world.  The programme of the congress now consists of over 90 panels. However, we look forward to paper proposals that fill slots in existing panels and perhaps gaps in the intellectual range of the programme as it stands.  We particularly welcome proposals for papers addressing the following topics:
 

• Pre-1500 Trans-Regional Connections and Comparisons (including, but not limited to, trade, ‘world’ religions, empires, migration, cultural transfers and ‘world systems’)

• Colonial Taxation in Global Perspective
• Comparing Property Rights in Peasant Societies
• The Spread of Bourgeois Ideology and its Relations to Economic Change - NEW
• Hidden Winners of Colonialism: Involvement of European Hinterland in Overseas Colonialism
• Popularization of Knowledge through History, Literature and Philosophy
• Second World War Labour Policies and Wartime Labour History
• The European Semi-periphery in Recent Writings on Early Modern Global History
• Discourses of ‘Zero Hours’ and New Beginnings
• Maritime Law of Warfare and its Impact on Creation of International Law & Early Globalization
• Transformation of Aristocracy in the 19th Century: Global Perspectives
• Representation of Post-Colonial States in International Organisations
• The Invention of the Electronic Telegraph and Technological Globalization
• The History of Area Studies in the Soviet Union and beyond in Comparative Perspective
• Pension Provision & Governance: Global Perspectives
• Speculative Philosophy of History and Research on World History
• Concepts and Methodologies of World and Global History

Other topics may be suggested as well but acceptance will depend upon available space in the programme. Proposals: We invite proposals for papers not only from scholars in various disciplines, based both in Europe and around the world. In addition to the name, affiliation, email and snailmail address proposals should include the title of the paper and an abstract (100 words). All LSE meeting rooms have Powerpoint facilities. When the time comes, it is hoped that all papers will be posted in advance on the congress webpage. Conference languages will be English, French and German.   Submission: all proposals must be received by 31 July 2010.
They should be submitted as email attachments to Katja Naumann at:
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Dates and deadlines

• 31 July 2010: Call for Papers closes
• 31 August 2010: Notification of Proposers 
• October 2010: Congress registration and reservation of accommodation opens (through the congress website). It will be possible to reserve accommodation to suit different needs and pockets, in a range of hotels and in a LSE hall of residence.

Inquiries: at this stage inquiries about the conference may be sent to Katja Naumann, who manages the ENIUGH headquarters and the Congress committee in Leipzig (as above) or to Gareth Austin, Department of Economic History, LSE ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ), who chairs the ENIUGH Steering Committee and the LSE local arrangements committee.

For more information on ENIUGH, including on the earlier congresses, please visit http://www.eniugh.org/ 
Members of the ENIUGH Steering Committee: Gareth Austin (president), London School of Economics & Political Science; Attila Melegh (vice-president), Corvinus University, Budapest; Matthias Middell (vice-president), University of Leipzig; Carlo Marko Belfanti, University of Brescia; Giovanni Gozzini, University of Siena; Regina Grafe, Northwestern University; Margarete Grandner, University of Vienna; Frank Hadler, University of Leipzig; Michael Harbsmeier, Roskilde University;

Markéta Křížová, Center for Ibero-American Studies, Charles University Prague, Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Barbara Lüthi, University of Basel; Alexey Miller, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow/ Central European University, Budapest; Patrick O’Brien, London School of Economics and Political Science; Diego Olstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Juan Carmona Pidal, Departamento de Historia Económica e Institutiones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Hagen Schulz-Forberg, University of Aarhus; Alessandro Stanziani, EHESS/ CNRS (Paris); Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent; Peer Vries, University of Vienna.

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SECOND EUROPEAN CONGRESS IN WORLD AND GLOBAL HISTORY

“WORLD ORDERS IN GLOBAL HISTORY“

DRESDEN, 3-5 JULY 2008

For details of the programme see the congress' website www.eniugh.org/congress.

Recent years have seen increasing scholarly interest in world orders, i.e. in general patterns and coordinates emerging from the conditions of an entangled and globalised world. The fruitful differences in the ways in which scholars approach and understand world orders are underpinned by the shared observation that the multifold linkages and networks, the connections and mutual influences across the world, both create and are shaped by specific sets of power relations, institutions and ideas. These structures – economic, social, political or cultural – result from conflicts between various claims for and challenges to domination and regulation in contrast to efforts to preserve autonomy and self-control against hegemonic encroachments.­

Although they are subject to constant change they represent global constellations, which for different periods of time constitute spheres of stability, structures of governance and frameworks of orientation, thus providing order in a complex, incalculable world. So far this research emphasis has been particularly strong in the Anglo-American context, whereas European scholars have rather reluctantly approached this area. Empirical research in many European countries, however, has addressed a whole range of historical situations and developments, which can be bound together to provide insights into world orders. Therefore the second European Congress in World and Global History seeks to bring these potentials together and to discuss their empirical results, focussing on issues of enforcements and contestations of world orders in economic, social, political and cultural spheres. Interpretations of global history are shaped by many disciplines, and so does the understanding of world orders depend on contributions from a wide range of areas in the social sciences and humanities.
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The organizing committee was under the leadership of Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig), Gareth Austin (London School of Economics) and Attila Melegh (Corvinus University Budapest).

University of Leipzig

Centre for Advanced Study
Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1
04105 Leipzig
GERMANY

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About the First European Congress

The first European Congress in World and Global History, which took place in Leipzig in 2005, has been a huge success with over 300 participants from more than 10 European countries, the United States, and Africa. Reports on most of the panel discussions are published in an issue of “Historical Social Research” (May 2006) as well as in the online-forum ‘history.transnational’.

During this First European Congress the members’ meeting of ENIUGH agreed to held every three years a European congress under the responsibility of by a steering committee that will be elected at each congress to prepared and organize the next congress. For the period 2005-2008 Matthias Middell serves as the president of this steering committee, Garreth Austin (London School of Economics) and Attila Melegh (Corvinus University Budapest) were elected as vice-presidents.

For more information please write to: ENIUGH headquarters.