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European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT (pdf)
THIRD EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON WORLD AND GLOBAL HISTORY
14-17 April 2011, London School of Economics & Political Science, Britain
Following the successful congresses organized by ENIUGH in Leipzig (2005) and Dresden (2008), the 2011 congress will be in London, hosted by the LSE. The overall theme will be Connections and Comparisons. Within this we can expect to see discussions of comparison, connection and entanglement between polities, societies, communities and individuals situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world. The perspectives will range from interactions between humanity and the environment, including over the very long term, through the cultural and economic histories of material and social life, to empires, large-scale crises, international organizations, and the intercontinental sources and consequences of revolutions, whether political, technological, social or ideological. The common emphasis is a commitment to transcending national historiographies and exploring different approaches to wide-ranging comparisons. While most panels will be substantive, some are likely to consider the various approaches to this endeavour, examining the methods and the problems involved. The conference will include keynote sessions as well as a series of parallel panels. We look to welcoming to London scholars practicing or interested in global, world and trans-national history from whatever discipline, based both within Europe and from around the world.
Timetable:
September 2009: announcement of the Call for Panels: proposals for panels will be invited, which may be complete or leaving space for further papers to be added.
February 2010: the Call for Panels closes. Proposers will be notified of the outcome in April.
April 2010: Call for Papers: proposals for individual papers will be invited, mainly to complete the panels already accepted.
October 2010: Conference 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 university halls of residence.
For more information on ENIUGH, including on the earlier congresses, please visit http://www.eniugh.org/
For early inquiries about the 2011 congress, prior to the Call for Panels, please contact Gareth Austin ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )
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CALL FOR PANELS (pdf)
THIRD EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON WORLD AND GLOBAL HISTORY
14-17 April 2011, London School of Economics & Political Science
THEME: CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONS
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.
We cordially invite proposals for panels examining comparisons, connections and entanglements between polities, societies, communities and individuals situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world. The perspectives involved will range from interactions between humanity and the environment, including over the very long term, through the cultural and economic histories of material and social life, to empires, international organizations, oceans as spaces of sustained interaction between communities from different continents, the experience and consequences of migration, periods of ‘de-globalization’ and ‘globalization’, and the intercontinental sources and consequences of revolutions, whether political, technological, social or ideological. Not least, we encourage critical reflection on the methodological and conceptual issues involved in comparative, transnational and entangled histories: whether in general, or in relation to specific areas of historical inquiry, from religions to real wages, from diasporas to epistemic communities. We look forward to contributions from not only from scholars in various disciplines, based both in Europe and around the world. Conference languages will be English, French and German.
Proposals: We invite proposals for panels comprising 3-6 participants. In addition to the names, affiliations and email and snailmail addresses of the participants, proposals should include titles and abstracts of the panel as a whole (200-600 words) and of each individual paper (100-300 words).
Please note that, at this stage, it is only proposals for panels, rather than for isolated papers, that are sought. However, panel proposers are welcome to leave one or two spaces for further papers. After the Steering Committee has selected panels, in April 2010, there will be a second Call, inviting proposals for individual papers to take up any vacant slots in the already-accepted panels.
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.
Submission: all proposals must be received by 28 February 2010. They should be submitted as email attachments to Katja Naumann at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Dates and deadlines 28 February 2010: Call for Panels closes. 28 April 2010: Date by which proposers will be notified of the outcome. A Call for Papers will be issued, inviting proposals for individual papers, mainly to complete panels already accepted. 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 (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; Stefan Houpt, University Carlos III, Madrid; Miroslav Hroch, 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; 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. 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 Tel.: +49 341 97-30232 Fax: +49 341 960 52 61 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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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. |
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