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International, Global and Transnational History Workshop – 2024-2026

3 September 2026

Dear all,

As the Fall semester rapidly approaches, we are delighted to welcome you back to the International, Global, and Transnational History Workshop (supported by ISERP and the History Department). As the new conveners of the Workshop, we want to thank you all for your continued participation in the workshop series, as well as express our appreciation for the previous group of conveners—Audrey, Dimitris, Elijah, Lélia, and Ziqian—for all of their work over the past two years.

For Fall 2026, the workshop will meet on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 6:30 PM in Fayerweather Hall, Room 413, unless otherwise noted.

This semester, the workshop will be split into two categories—defined as Craft Talks and Workshops. Craft Talks will unpack the method, argumentation, and evidence of chapters from recently published works of scholars in the field with a faculty respondent, while Workshops will be focused on giving feedback to in-progress dissertation chapters, book excerpts, or articles. Both formats will be followed by an open discussion among audience members, discussants, and respondents about the work shared.

Please note that our first session with chapters from Emile Chabal’s (University of Edinburgh) The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian will take place on Friday, September 11th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM in Fayerweather Hall, Room 413. Professors Mark Mazower and Adam Tooze will be providing comments.

The full schedule is attached below. To RSVP for given events and ensure you receive a copy of the paper for the week, please fill out this form.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

All the best,

Brandon, Minwoo, Suhail, Ton-Nu, Umrat, and Vikram
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 2026
Fayerweather Hall, Room 413,
Wednesdays, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.*

*unless otherwise noted

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
(The New School)

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