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Of Interest Starting August 1, Martin Klimke will become a full research fellow at the German Historical Institute and most likely remain in DC for 5 years. Klimke is also engaged in two research projects on the global implications of The African American Civil Rights Movement Ray Grew gave a talk on global history at the College of Wooster in February and offered advice on how they can incorporate global history into their interesting curriculum. This was part of a general review of their program that another outside historian and Grew undertook for them. Hopefully elements of global history will stick in the final product. Jason Ralph has been awarded some funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) to pursue his research project: "Law, War and the State of American Exception." The central question driving the proposed research is whether the post-9/11 exception has now become the norm in US security policy and what this means for English School (ES) understandings of war as an institution of international society. Two articles and a book on the subject are forthcoming from Global Society, Review of International Studies, and Edinburgh University Press, respectively. There is an upcoming conference entitled “1989 in a Global Perspective” which will be held at the University of Leipzig, Germany from October 14 to 16, 2009. "This conference is meant as a contribution not only to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989, but also to the 600th anniversary of Leipzig University. Since Leipzig has a long established tradition in the discussion about problems of universal and global history we decided to focus on the global dimension and to gather scholars who have excelled in the study of dynamics and entanglements of world regions." From May 21 to 22 of 2009 there will be a conference hosted at the British Academy entitled "Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the 21st Century." The conference will feature a great lineup of thinkers. According to the conference description: "Debates over 'globalization' and paradigms such as the 'great divergence' stimulated historians in many specialisms to think about the historical formation of these phenomena. Just how unique, how distinctive, is our current condition of an intense interlinking of economies and polities. We are now re-thinking our histories in relation to those of others in wider parts of the world." Beginning in the Spring of 2008, the first of the nine volumes of the Globalization and Autonomy Series: Dialectical Relationships Facing the Contemporary World was published by UBC Press. For more information, see the McMaster's Institute website. Dr. Elliott R. Morss, an American economist, gave a series of lectures on Global Finance in November 2008 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The lectures came from the book Dr. Morss is writing on “Who Controls Global Capital”. The Toynbee Prize Foundation awarded its 2008 prize to Professor William H. McNeill in a ceremony on April 25, 2008 at the Harvard Faculty Club. Professor McNeill described the inspiration given to him by Arnold Toynbee and the importance of "Big History." People Interested in New Global HistoryKathryn Anderson-Levitt, Professor of Anthropology and Dean, The University of Michigan-Dearborn (see further her paper in the Globalization and Childhood Conference, reprinted on this web site). Jennifer Cole, Professor and Member of the Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago. Mary Jane Deeb, Curator of the Middle East collection at the Library of Congress, and former editor of the Middle East Journal. Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Princeton University, and now Professor at the Center for Globalization and Internationalism, University of California, Santa Barbara. Paula Fass, Professor in the Department of History, University of California, Berkeley. Mark Juergensmeyer, Director Global & International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Rob King, undergraduate at Harvard University and personal assistant to Professor Mazlish. He has taken over duties as webmaster from Ken Weisbrode. Martin Klimke, research fellow at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg and currently also Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. Krishan Kumar, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, recently also joined the New Global History initiative. Stephen Mennell, Professor of Sociology, Dublin University, Ireland. Editor, Figurations (Newsletter of the Norbert Elias Foundation). Craig N. Murphy, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations at Wellesley College, author of a number of books related to globalization, and currently engaged on a History of UN Development efforts. Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of International Relations at Boston University. Dennis Smith, Professor of Sociology, Loughborough University, UK. Editor, Current Sociology. S. Frederick Starr, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, The Nitze School-SAIS, John Hopkins University, and Rector for the newly forming Central Asian University. The latter is a tremendously exciting and innovative project. Starr is also interested in the Mapping the NGOs project. Peter N. Stearns, Provost of George Mason University. A distinguished historian, he is also the editor of Journal of Social History. Jeremi Suri, Assistant Professor in History at University of Wisconsin- Madison, whose specialization is in international history and American social movements. His book, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente, was published by Harvard University Press in 2003. Reed Ueda, Professor of History at Tufts University, with various publications in the areas of migration history and American history, currently editing (with Mary C. Waters, Professor of Sociology at Harvard) The New Americans (Harvard U. Press) and The Companion to American Immigration (Blackwell). Kenneth Weisbrode, research assistant to Professors Iriye and Mazlish on a number of projects, is the managing editor of New Global Studies and is currently in Italy preparing his dissertation for publication. Joshua Yates, Fellow at the Center on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia. His research interests fit closely with those of the NGH initiaitive. |
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