Under the title "World Orders in Global History" the European Network in Universal and Global History is inviting to its second European-wide congress, which will take place 3 to 5 July 2008 in Dresden (Germany).

The following topics are in the core of our debates:

• ideas, conceptualisations and ideologies of world orders, master narratives for its enforcements as well as forms of reaction and resistance against established orders
• structures of global governance and in politics and economics (trade, finance, production)
• labour migration as a challenge to or reinforcement of prevailing international divisions of labour
• forms of international cooperation (NGOs, international organisations, transnational networks, transnational corporations)
• world orders in areas like literature and art, and in education

This congress carries on a first meeting of all those practising or interested in the historicisation of current processes of globalisation, all who are involved in world or global history teaching from whatever disciplinary background. The First European Congress of World and Global History took place in September 2005 in Leipzig (Germany) and brought together 300 scholars from all world regions to debates and exchanges in more than 40 different panels. Information about this First European Congress of World and Global History as well as the reports of the panel discussions can be found at geschichte-transnational or in the special edition of the journal 'Historical Social Research', Vol. 31, No. 2, 2006.

On the following pages, you will find all relevant information on the congress in 2008. Should you have additional questions, please don't hesitate to contact us via Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you next July in Dresden.

Please register under the menu link "registration".