International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop Fall Semester 2026 Fayerweather Hall, Room 413, Wednesdays, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.* *unless otherwise noted
Date	Presenter	Topic	Respondent
September 11  [Friday]*	Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh)	Chapter from The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian	Mark Mazower & Adam Tooze  (Columbia University)
September 30 [6:00-7:30]*	Mario Del Pero  (Sciences Po)	Chapter from In the Shadow of the Vatican: Texan Evangelical Missionaries in Cold War Italy	Sandrine Kott (New York University / University of Geneva)
October 7 [6:00-7:30]*	Sandrine Kott (New York University / University of Geneva)	“Moralizing Global Capitalism: Christian Actors and the International Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility (1970-2000)”	Malgorzata Mazurek (Columbia University)
October 14	Seokju Oh (Columbia University)	“The 1917 New England Sugar Shortage as Transimperial Crisis”	Samantha Iyer (Fordham University)
October 21	Lezhi Wang (Harvard University)	“Addicted to Modern: Accumulation and Dependence in Hinterland Borneo’s First Towns”	Ann Stoler (The New School)
October 28	Paul Gootenberg  (Stony Brook University)	Introduction to Cities of Drugs: The Origins of Global Trafficking in the Twentieth Century	Amy Chazkel & Pablo Piccato (Columbia University)
November 4	Kamini Masood (Columbia University)	“’One Catastrophe after Another’: The 1828 Earthquake and Beyond in Tarikhs of Kashmir”	Dean Chahim (New York University)
November 18	Sohini Chattopadhyay (Union College)	Excerpt from Refused Deathscapes: Bombay, Calcutta, and the Regional Limits of Technologies	Kalyani Ramnath (Columbiq University)
December 9	Aimee Gennell (Boston University)	“Ending the Ottoman Capitulations, 1914-1923” [Tentative Title]	TBD

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)

International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop Spring Semester 2026 Fayerweather Hall, Room 413, Wednesdays, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Date	Presenter	Topic	Respondent
Feb. 4	Małgorzata Mazurek (Columbia University)	“Buffer Zone Socialism: Reckoning with Germany, the Soviet Union, and the World Economic Crisis (1932-1933)”	Andrew Sartori (NYU)
Feb. 11	Christian Bailey (Purchase College, NYC)	“(Sp)ending the Peace Dividend: German and American Climate Diplomacy at Kyoto”	Adam Tooze (Columbia University)
Feb. 18	Judith Surkis (Rutgers University)	“Oil Lines and Blood Lines: Patrimony, Sovereignty, and Natural Resources between France and Algeria, 1961-1971”	Anupama Rao (Barnard College)
Feb. 25	Samuel Niu (Columbia University)	“The World that Emancipation Made: Recruitment to British Guiana in Xiamen, China, 1852-1853” – dissertation chapter	Charles Argon (Princeton University)
March 4	Andreas Guidi (INALCO, Paris)	“Shady Trade in the Imperial Twilight: Changing Borders, Adventure Capitalism, and International Surveillance in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Mediterranean”	Johan Mathew (Rutgers University)

March 11	Durba Mitra (Harvard University)	Discussion of her upcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism (Princeton University Press, 2026)
March 25	Jakub Straka (Masaryk University)	“Behind the Iron Curtain: Art, Cultural Encounters, and State Control in 1960s Czechoslovakia”	Patryk Tomaszewski (Fordham University)
April 1	Daniel Quiroga-Villamarín (University of Vienna)	“Ahead of the Times: Erecting the United Nations Headquarters in New York City’s ‘Empire State’ (1939-1952)”	Kim Phillips-Fein (Columbia University)
April 8	Paris Papamichos- Chronakis (Royal Holloway, London)	“Dark Cosmopolitanism: Greek Αntisemitism in Mediterranean Perspective, 1840-1914”	Louis Fishman (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
April 15	Hongyi Yu (Columbia University)	“The Revival of the Interpersonal Propaganda Against the Backdrop of Cinematic Exchange Between Socialist China and North Korea in the 1960s”	Elidor Mëhilli (Hunter College, CUNY)

April 22	Patrick Cohrs (University of Florence)	“Transformative Learning: The Remaking of World Order in the Long 20th Century”	Adam Tooze (Columbia University)
April 29	“What Does International, Global, and Transnational History Really Mean?” A conversation with Matthew Connelly, Mark Mazower, and Kalyani Ramnath (Columbia University)

International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop Fall Semester 2025Fayerweather Hall, Room 413, Wednesdays, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Date	Presenter	Topic	Respondent
Sept. 17	Charis Marantzidou (Columbia University)	“The Path of (No) Return: Exile & Repatriation in the White Russian Army in Bulgaria, 1919-1924” – dissertation chapter	Susan Pedersen (Columbia University)
Sept. 24	Khatchig Mouradian (Columbia University)	“Arrest, Detention, and Deportation: The Police as Instrument of Genocide in Ottoman Aleppo, 1915-1916” – chapter of an upcoming book on the Armenian Genocide	Debórah Dwork (CUNY Graduate Center)
Oct. 1	Yangyou Fang (Princeton University)	“Writing to the King: Transculturation and Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Spanish Philippines” – chapter of an upcoming book	Adrian De Leon (NYU)
Oct. 8	Madeleine Dungy (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)	“Managing Migrant Pensions: National Welfare and Multilateral Order from the International Labour Organization to the European Economic Community” – chapter of an upcoming book	Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva & NYU)
Oct. 15	Ana Antić (University of Copenhagen)	“Measuring Emotions: Schizophrenia, Family, and Society Across Cultural Boundaries” – chapter of an upcoming book	Dagmar Herzog (CUNY Graduate Center)
Oct. 22	Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen (University of Cologne)	“‘African’ Management Knowledge: Contesting Marginality in Postcolonial Nigeria”	Elidor Mëhilli (Hunter College, CUNY)

Oct. 29	Fabrice Bensimon (Sorbonne Université)	“Reading Aloud in the Workshop. Collective Reading Among Workers in Britain, France, and Beyond, 1780s-1870s”	James Stafford (Columbia University)
Nov. 5	Diego Javier Luis (Johns Hopkins University)	“Rethinking Colonial Categories: Linking Manila to the Black Pacific”	Frank Guridy (Columbia University)
Nov. 12	Peter Zhang (University of British Columbia)	“Remains of the Ming: 17th-Century Chinese Diaspora in Japan and Korea and Transnational Discourses on National Identities in Early Modern East Asia” – dissertation chapter	Ziqian Zheng (Columbia University)
Nov. 19	Mary Elise Sarotte (John Hopkins University)	“The Post-Cold War Era as History” Please note that this session will be taking place from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm!	Adam Tooze (Columbia University)
Dec. 3	Giorgos Giannakopoulos (City University London)	“International Interventions in Greece in the Shadow of the Crimean War”	Mark Mazower (Columbia University)

Dec. 10

Yoram Gorlizki (University of Manchester)

“Ideas and Institutions in Soviet Legal History” – chapter of an upcoming book

Yana Skorobogatov (Columbia University)

 

 

International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop Spring Semester 2025 Fayerweather Hall, Room 411, Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Date	Presenter	Topic	Respondent
Feb. 5	Dillon Banis (Columbia University)	“Children, Chocolate, and Colonialism: The Chocolate Marketing Revolution and the Rise of Working-Class Sugar Consumption in Imperial Germany, c.1850-1914” – dissertation chapter	Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College)
Feb. 12	Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)	“The Rowlatt Satyagraha: Why and How Gandhi Civilized Disobedience” – chapter of an upcoming book on M. K. Gandhi and the politics of nonviolence	Sandipto Dasgupta (New School for Social Research)
Feb. 19	Elidor Mëhilli (Hunter College, CUNY)	“Revise and Resubmit: An Albanian History of China in 1979”	Mark Mazower (Columbia University)
Feb. 26	Angelo Caglioti (Barnard College)	“From the Alps to the Great Rift Valley: Hydrology, Hydropower and the Italian Colonization of Ethiopia (1935-1941)”	Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia University)
March 5	Janick Schaufelbuehl (University of Lausanne)	Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) – book presentation (the introduction and a chapter will be shared)	Rohan Shah (NYU)
March 12	Burak Sayim (University of Antwerp)	The Making of Communism in the Middle East: Anticolonial Revolutions, Global Networks and Itinerant Militants (1910s-1920s) – chapter of an upcoming book	Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular (Rutgers University Newark)

March 26	Yue Liang (Grand Valley State University)	“The 1954 Yangtze River Flood and Early Cold War China-U.S.-India Relations”	Eugenia Lean (Columbia University)
April 2	Camille Robcis (Columbia University)	“The United Nations, the Vatican, and the Birth of Anti-Genderism” – chapter of an upcoming book on the international movement against “gender”	Durba Mitra (Harvard University)
April 9	Nara Milanich (Barnard College)	“One Day I’ll Tell You Everything: History as Narrative Non-Fiction” – project on the son of an African-American soldier in post-WWII Italy, exploring family, transnationalism, gender, sexuality, and Blackness in Europe	Alexander Stille (Columbia University)
April 16	Nora Lessersohn (Georgetown University & Columbia University)	“Irish Turks and Circassian Beauties: Authenticity, Hybridity, and an Ottoman-America Joke” – chapter of an upcoming book, co-edited with David Sim, To See a World: Microhistories of the Global United States (Cornell University Press)	Edhem Eldem (Columbia University)
April 23	Chloë Mayoux (Harvard University)	“Independence in the Nuclear Age: Nigerian Foreign Policy Beyond the Cold War and Decolonisation”	Matthew Connelly (Columbia University)

International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop Fall Semester 2024Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, Fridays, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Date	Presenter	Topic
Nov. 8	Dante LaRiccia (Yale University)	“Towards a ‘World Energy Order’: Oil Crisis, Energy Transition, and Global Governance at the United Nations”
Nov. 22	Lélia Roche (Columbia University)	“The WHO and the Global Governance of Infectious Diseases”

 

Date	Time	Name	Title
Feb. 2	2PM	Soheb Niazi (Leiden University)	Towards a History of Non-Ashraf Muslims or Notes on Muslim Occupational Castes in Late Colonial India
Feb. 7	2PM	Geneva A. Smith (Princeton)	Creating Slave Courts: Enforcing Racial Difference in the Early Atlantic
Feb. 16	2PM	Sureshi Jayawardene (San Diego State University)	Manja Performance: Afrodiasporic Epistemology in Embodied Memory
Feb. 21	2PM	Gili Kliger (Harvard)	“An Invidious Distinction”: Race and Reparations after Abolition
Feb. 28	2PM	Sydney-Paige Patterson (Indiana University)	Make a Name, Make a World: The Importance of a Chosen Name in Dalit-Bahujan Movements
Mar. 6	2PM	KN Sunandan (Azim Premji University)	An Ashari World of Knowing: Caste, Knowledge and Power
Mar. 20	2PM	Neelofer Qadir (UNC Greensboro)	Kifa Urongo: Structures of Unfreedom in Africa’s Indian Ocean Worlds
Apr. 3	2PM	Haris A. Durrani (Princeton)	Space Like Sea, Sea Like Land: Jurisdiction, Sovereignty, & U.S. Empire in Africa, 1963
Apr. 17	2PM	Muriam Haleh Davies (UC Santa Cruz)	‘A Free Space Concept’: U.S. Patent Law in the Global Cold War, 1966)
Apr. 24	2PM	Harini Kumar (Princeton)	TBD