Category: The Blog
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David Ekbladh, Reflections on Bruce Mazlish
I will remember Bruce in many ways. I first met him when he tracked me down at some gathering while I was a visiting scholar…
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Roland Benedikter, Reflections on Bruce Mazlish
The late Bruce Mazlish was a more than generous mentor for Europeans like me whom he saw in accordance with the mission of enlightenment, modernization,…
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Dominic Sachsenmaier, Reflections on Bruce Mazlish
In late October, I paid Bruce a visit, and it was obvious that it would be our last encounter. He was pale, thin and bound…
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CFP: “The Modern Invention of Dynasty: A Global Intellectual History, 1500–2000” (Birmingham Research Institute of History and Cultures, September 21–23, 2017)
Here’s an interesting call for papers on global history organized by Birmingham Research Institute of History and Cultures called “The Modern Invention of Dynasty: A Global…
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CfP: Law and Colonial Violence Workshop at Queen Mary University London
Queen Mary University London, Cambridge University, and the European University Institute have jointly issued a call for proposals for a workshop on the subject of…
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Workshop: “Global Legal Regimes: Beyond Imperial Frames” (Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, 20-21 April, 2017)
For readers of the Global History Blog interested in legal history in global context, here’s a recent call for paper for a workshop titled “Global Legal Regimes:…
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Bruce Mazlish (1923-2016)
The Toynbee Prize Foundation regrets to announce that Bruce Mazlish, the President of the Toynbee Prize Foundation in the late 1980s and 1990s and a…
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Wokshop: “War Veterans and the World after 1945: Social Movements, Cold War Politics, and Decolonization” (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, 6-8 July, 2017)
Here’s an recent call for papers for a wokshop on history of war veterans in transnational context – taking place at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany on 6-8 July, 2017 entitled “War Veterans and…
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Call for Applications: PhD and MA Scholarships in Comparative History (Central European University, Budapest)
For readers of the Global History Blog or Forum interested in Eurasian history—here understood in terms of the space of interactions between the Russian, Habsburg,…
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Call for Papers, 2017 UCSB/GWU/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War
For graduate students writing dissertations–or merely an article– on the history of the Cold War, here’s an annual tradition run jointly by UC Santa Barbara, the…