GHI Workshop 2024

Global History: Remapping Categories and Concepts

October 3-4, 2024. Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario).

Conference Schedule

Register here to attend virutally!

Invited Speakers

Sven Beckert

Sven Beckert

Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University

research interests: 19th century United States, capitalism

Visit his website for more information.

paper title: How to Write the Global History of Capitalism

Maxine Berg

Maxine Berg

Professor of History, University of Warwick

research interests: early modern Asia and Europe, history of knowledge, history, and technology, material culture, historiography

Visit her departmental webpage for more information.

paper title: Global History and Early Modern Capitalism: Sugar, Cotton and Industrialization

Dipesh Chakrabarty

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

Visit his departmental webpage for more information.

paper title: The Planetary Turn in Human History: A Personal Journey

Jo Guldi

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

Visit her website for more information.

paper title: A World of Land

Marnie Hughes-Warrington

Marnie Hughes-Warrington

Bradley Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Australia

research interests: philosophy of history, historiography, history education

Visit her institutional webpage for more information.

paper title: Globalizing Historiography in the Age of Artificial Historians

Stefan Link

Stefan J. Link

Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College

research interests: global political economy, intellectual history of capitalism, global economic history

Visit his departmental webpage for more information.

paper title: States in Global History: In Search of an Agenda

David MacDonald

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

Visit his website for more information.

paper title: Unpacking Myths of Benign Foundation in Western Settler States

Julia McClure

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

Visit her departmental webpage for more information.

paper title: The Failure of the West: Colonial Capitalism and the Climate Crisis

JR McNeill

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

Visit his departmental webpage for more information.

paper title: Global Environmental History

Allan Megill

Allan Megill

Professor, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia

research interests: modern Europe, history of ideas, history theory, philosophy of history

Visit his departmental webpage for more information.

paper title: On ‘Global History’: What is Truly ‘Global’?

Heather Salter

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

Visit her departmental webpage for more information.

paper title: Historiographical Convergences in the Making of a Global History of Anticolonialism

Heidi Tworek

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

Visit her website for more information.

paper title: The State of Global History from a Journal Editor's Perspective

Organizers

Amitava Chowdhury

Associate Professor, Queen's University

Visit his departmental webpage.

a.chowdhury@queensu.ca

Daniel Woolf

Professor and Principal Emeritus, Queen's University

Visit his departmental webpage.

woolfd@queensu.ca

Heather Poussard

PhD Candidate, Queen's University

Visit her departmental webpage.

20hp2@queensu.ca

Event Poster