| International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop Spring Semester 2026 Fayerweather Hall, Room 413, Wednesdays, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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” |
TBD |
| 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 | Glenda Sluga (European University Institute) |
“What Does International, Global, and Transnational History Really Mean?” in conversation with Matthew Connelly, Mark Mazower, and Susan Pedersen (Columbia University) |
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