Conferences

The Nature of Commodity Frontiers conference aims to contribute analyses at the intersections of ecology, race, gender, Indigeneity, and more-than-human life in the historical analysis of commodity frontiers. Our focus is the transformation of the global...

Keynote Speech History and Reality : The Oriental Battlefield of Anti-Fascist（LIANG Zhanjun) Shanghai in the World War II（ZHOU Wu） From Cooperation to Confrontation : USA and Soviet Union after the World War II（YU Weimin） The early development of...

International Conference on The Fishing Community of Guet Ndar in Saint Louis du Sénégal: Between Singularity and Universality March 15-17, 2021 at the CRDS in Saint-Louis du Sénégal (Senegal) The conference will seek to place the crisis in the economic...

Réseau d’Histoire Globale du Travail 2022 Conférence à Saint-Louis, Sénégal Thème : le travail, des mutations à l’épreuve des frontières- : recompositions spatiales et transformations sociales Institution d'accueil : Institut d'études avancées (IEA)...

The conference urges scholars to rethink capitalism’s history from the vantage point of this new historical moment and to consider what are the most promising theoretical formulations, methodological approaches, and historical framings to define...

Conference, June 14–15, 2023 Harvard University Natural Resources, Sovereignty and Markets: Revisiting Socio-Economic Histories of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Organizer: Moritz von Brescius (Harvard/Bern) This international conference invites...

DUE TO THE UNCERTAIN GLOBAL SITUTATION WITH COVID-19, THIS CONFERENCE HAS BEE POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SHARING DETAILS ONCE THEY ARE CONFIRMED. Call for Papers Toward a Global History of Economic Transfer:Commodities, Commodity Chains...

The Global History Network, the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, and the Institute of Advanced Study in Saint-Louis, will hold the conference Colonial Cities in Global Perspective, to be held in...

The third conference in the series on Soccer and Globalization will pick up on themes first explored in our first two conferences, “Soccer as a Global Phenomenon” (2016) and “Reinforcing, Crossing, and Transcending Borders: Soccer in a Globalized World”...

In a world that continues to be mostly ocean, countryside, forest, and desert and with nearly half the world’s population still living and laboring in such locations, we seek to decenter the city and metropole and problematize progress narratives that...