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Dominic Sachsenmaier
Assistant Professor of History
Duke University
Introductory Remarks

Sven Beckert
Professor of History
Harvard University University
Closing Remarks

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• Geschichte.transnational Conference Report (In German)

Shigeru Akita
Professor of British Imperial History
Department of World History
Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University, Japan
“World History and the Creation of a New Global History: Japanese Perspectives”

Gareth Austin
Reader in Economic History
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
“Global History as a Project: Methodological, Historiographical and Institutional Perspectives”

Selçuk Esenbel
Professor of History
Boğaziçi University, Turkey
“Global History, Transnational History, and the State of Historiography in Turkey”

John D. French
Associate Professor of History
Duke University
“Another World History Is Possible: Latin Americanist Reflections on Translocal,Transnational, and Global History”

Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Associate Professor of Modern History
Macquarie University, Australia
“‘Writing the Globe from the Edges’: Approaches to the Making of Global History in Australia”

Jie-Hyun Lim
Professor of History
Hanyang University, South Korea
“Tensions Between National and Transnational Paradigms in Contemporary East Asian Historiography”

Diego Olstein
Lecturer in History
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
“Varieties of Globalization: Regional Perspectives, Analytical Approaches, and Pending Debates”

Jürgen Osterhammel
Professor of History and Sociology
Universität Konstanz, Germany
“The Burden of Tradition: German-Language Contributions to World History and Global History”

Kenneth Pomeranz
UCI's Chancellor's Professor of History
University of California, Irvine, USA
“Scale, Scope, and Scholarship: Regional Practices and Global Economic Histories”

Ricardo Salvatore
Professor of History
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
“Hemispheric versus National Histories: Historians from the U.S. and Latin America Revisit the Spanish Colonial Empire”

Adapa Satyanarayana
Professor of History
Osmania University, India
“Situating the Indian Diaspora in Global History: An Overview”

David Simo
Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Culture
University of Yaounde, Cameroon
“African Self-Writing, or African Discourses on Africa and Global History”

Jerome Teelucksingh
Lecturer in Caribbean and European Histories
University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
“From Periphery to Prominence: Caribbean History on the Global Stage”

Ibrahima Thioub
Professor of History
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal
“Local and Global Perspectives on the African Historiography of Atlantic Slave Trade”
[French Version] [English Version]

Marcel van der Linden
Professor of History
International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands
“The Globalization of Labor and Working-Class History: An Exploratory Historiography”

Q. Edward Wang
Professor of History
Rowan University, USA and Peking University, China
“‘The Rise of Great Powers’ = The Rise of China? The Transition from World History to Global History in the PRC and its Political Implications”

Bénédicte Zimmermann
Professor of Sociology
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
“Histoire Croisée and the Fabric of Global History”