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International, Global and Transnational History Workshop – Spring 2026

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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”

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)

International, Global and Transnational History Workshop – Fall 2025

International, Global and Transnational History Workshop – Fall 2025 published on
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 2025

International, Global and Transnational History Workshop – Spring 2025 published on
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 2024

International, Global and Transnational History Workshop – Fall 2024 published on
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”

International History Workshop – Spring 2024

International History Workshop – Spring 2024 published on

 

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