20 May 2026

Dear all,

As the academic year comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for being part of the International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop this year.

Over the past months, we have had the pleasure of coming together for a wide range of conversations that crossed fields, methods, geographies, and approaches. Through papers, discussions, and our final roundtable, we have continued to ask what it means to think historically across and beyond the categories of the international, the global, and the transnational — questions that have animated this workshop in different ways since the beginning.

Our final session, featuring Professors Kalyani Ramnath, Matthew Connelly, and Mark Mazower, offered a fitting way to close the semester by stepping back and reflecting on these frameworks, their histories, and their continued relevance. We are deeply grateful to our speakers, as well as to everyone who presented work this year and helped make each session such a lively and thoughtful exchange.

This semester also marks the end of our time as co-conveners. Over the past two years, it has been a real privilege to organise this workshop together. Across 36 sessions, we have had the chance to welcome scholars working on a remarkable range of topics and to foster conversations that have challenged, inspired, and connected us. It has been an incredibly rewarding experience, and we are deeply grateful to everyone who has helped make this workshop such a vibrant intellectual community.

We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the History Department and ISERP for their support throughout, and especially to Professors Mark Mazower, Matthew Connelly, and Adam Tooze for serving as faculty advisors to the workshop.

As we close this chapter, we are delighted to pass the workshop on to a new team of co-conveners: Brandon, Marc, Minwoo, Suhail, Ton-Nu, Umrat, and Vikram. We are excited to see the energy and ideas they will bring, and we are confident they will continue to make this workshop a space for sharing work-in-progress, experimenting with new approaches, and thinking collectively about the possibilities — and stakes — of international, global, and transnational history.

What has always made this workshop so meaningful is the generosity, curiosity, and camaraderie of those who take part. Thank you for your engagement, your questions, and your enthusiasm over the past year — and, for us, over the past two years. It has been a pleasure to convene this community.

We wish you all the best for a restful summer, and look forward to seeing the workshop continue to thrive in the year ahead.

Warmest wishes,

Audrey, Dimitris, Elijah, Lélia, and Ziqian
The co-conveners of the International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop
(Supported by ISERP and the History Department)