29 August 2025
Dear all,
As the new academic year begins, we are thrilled to welcome you back to the International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop – and to extend a warm hello to those joining us for the first time this fall!
Each semester, it is a true pleasure to see familiar faces return and new ones step into the room. Together, you create a space that is thoughtful, curious, and generous – a space where historical questions can be approached across borders, disciplines, and time periods. We are so excited to continue building that community this fall.
This semester, our workshop will take place on Wednesdays from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. in Fayerweather Hall, Room 413, unless otherwise noted. Over the course of twelve sessions, we will journey across empires and centuries, engage with war and welfare, labour and law, exile and emotion. Our speakers bring work at all stages – from dissertation chapters to new book projects – and our respondents help us dig deeper into the stakes, sources, and meanings of what we hear.
You will find the full schedule listed below.
We kindly ask that you RSVP by filling out this short form. This helps us plan accordingly – and ensures you receive the papers and details at least one week in advance of each session.
We cannot wait to get started, and we look forward to the conversations, questions, and insights this semester will bring. Whether you join us every week or just drop in once, we are so glad to have you with us.
Warmest wishes for the start of the semester,
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 Fall Semester 2025 Fayerweather 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 |
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) |