"Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the 21st Century" Conference

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."