Summer School Presentation “Global History in the 2020s”

Global History has become a much-debated field. Is it about globalisation(s), is it a method, a subject matter, all of the above? Over the last two decades global historians have outlined topics and approaches that set the foundations for a transforming field. Transcending national frameworks, challenging Eurocentric narratives and tracing border-crossing connections and interactions be- tween societies, communities and individuals, as well as decentred comparisons are some of its common denominators that have gained substance through particular case studies. As the field moves towards the end of its second decade of its thorough revision in light of a long tradition, a next generation of global historians, will reflect on these questions.
Following two intense days of discussion the PhD students involved in the ENIUGH Summer School will present their work and explain how they see writing world and global histories in the 2020s.

The summer school is organized in partnership with The Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) and the Graduate School Global and Area Studies at Leipzig University.

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