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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)