Global and World History in France and in Francophone Africa

01.–10.09.2014, International Summer School for PhD-students, DHI Paris

New research fields live from the interest of younger scholars and prosper not the least due to research from doctoral students entering the new intellectual terrain. That is also the case for global and world historical studies that have developed rapidly over the last years. While the Anglophone research trends are visible, partly even dominating, this is less the case for approaches and topics chosen at other places. In view of that the summer school seeks to give space to current works in a) France and Francophone Africa, b) based on French-speaking sources, and c) dealing with the outside relations and larger contexts of France in its different geographical scopes.

Convenors:
Michel Espagne, Labex TransferS “Cultural Transfers, Translations, Interfaces”; Matthias Middell, Global and European Studies Institute, Universität Leipzig;  funded by the French-German-University; supported by the German Historical Institute, Paris and the European Network in Universal and Global History

Dates: 1-10 September 2014

Venue: German Historical Institute Paris, Hôtel Duret-de-Chevry, 8 rue du Parc-Royal, F-75003 Paris, and Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, 45, rue d’Ulm, F-75005 Paris

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