Conversations in Global History - Einzelansicht

Conversations in Global History offers MA students an engaging forum to explore how global connections, comparisons, and entanglements have shaped the modern world. Offered in collaboration with the FU Center for Global History, the course combines invited lectures by leading scholars with student-led reading sessions in Berlin and Potsdam.

Each session invites participants to think critically about new approaches to global history—ranging from empire, mobility, and exchange to decolonization, environmental change, and the circulation of ideas. The public lecture seriesfeatures internationally renowned historians presenting their latest research, while reading discussions provide space for reflection, debate, and connection to students’ own projects.

Designed as both an academic course and an intellectual community, Conversations in Global History encourages students to engage with cutting-edge scholarship, challenge established narratives, and build networks across universities and disciplines. Whether you are developing your MA thesis or simply curious about global approaches to history, this course offers a unique opportunity to participate in vibrant conversations that cross borders—both geographic and conceptual—and to reimagine how we write and understand the global past.

Readings include Sebastian Conrad’s What Is Global History? and Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s Explorations in Connected History.

In accordance with your Studienordnung. Erasmus students, kindly speak to the professor during the first session of class.