| International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop Fall Semester 2026 Fayerweather Hall, Room 413, Wednesdays, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.* *unless otherwise noted |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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International, Global and Transnational History Workshop – Spring 2026
| 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” |
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) |
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International, Global and Transnational History Workshop – Fall 2025
| International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop Fall Semester 2025Fayerweather Hall, Room 413, Wednesdays, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Adam Tooze |
| 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 2025
| International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop Spring Semester 2025 Fayerweather Hall, Room 411, |
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| 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 2024
| International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop Fall Semester 2024Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, Fridays, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
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| 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” |
International History Workshop – Spring 2024
| 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 |