This may be of interest to scholars of World War I and the history of Science:

The Freie Universität Berlin has released a call for papers titled "Africa in Global Intellectual History." The Conference will be held on 24-25 November 2018. The call explains more about the program:

SEAN PHILLIPS … Kwame Opoku, "Umfrage: Exotik des Trauten," ["Survey: The Exotic in the Familiar"] Süddeutsche Zeitung. Samira Shackle, "The Bureaucracy of ISIS," Prospect Magazine. Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, "The Spice That Hooked Medical Nuns," The Atlantic.

Scholars of global histories of women may like to submit papers in response to the following call for papers:

For  world historians looking for an academic position, here is a recent call for applications for a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow position at Utah State University. The call for papers explains more:

For those interested in Latin American studies, here's a recent call for papers for a symposium titled "LAGlobal Symposium: The Global Past and Future of Latin American Studies." The call for papers explains more:

PhD Student Opportunity: Women and the History of International Thought, University of Sussex … Deadline: February 14, 2018 … Start date:

FATMA ALADAĞ … Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Do Secularism and Gender Equality Really Go Hand in Hand?," The Guardian. Matthew Hedstrom, "Comparison and Classification in American Religious History,"  The Immanent Frame. Emile Chabal, "Les Anglo-Saxons," Aeon.

JOSHUA MILSTEIN … Victoria Pashentseva, "Tough Lessons in Transnistria," openDemocracy. Rebeka Foley, "Azerbaijan's Pre-Soviet Independence Embroiled in Post-Soviet Polemics," Eurasianet. Francis P. Sempa, "Surviving the Future: Looking Back at the Toynbee-Wakaizumi Dialogue of 1970," The Diplomat.

Theme: "Altruism and Its Discontents: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development" Proposal deadline: February 15, 2018 … Materials:

Our friends at The Global History Center (GHC) of Capital Normal University (CNU) have released a flier containing information about their recent work:

Global Histories has extended the deadline for its most recent call for papers. The deadline for submissions is now January 20th, 2018. The Call explains more: In recent years, global history has become one of the most ambitious and promising strands of historical research.

LOTTE HOUWINK TEN CATE … Jenna Tonn, "White Feminism and Eugenics: The Case of Gertrude Davenport," The New Inquiry. Colin Koopman, "The Power Thinker," Aeon. Sadia Shephard, "Foreign-Returned," The New Yorker.

ASAI has issued a call for panels at the Fifth Conference of the Association for African Studies in Italy (ASAI) to be held in Bologna, 5-7 September 2018. The Fifth Conference of ASAI aims, first of all, to analyse the 'Africas', that is…

The Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York in the UK has shared the following details for two upcoming public lectures to be held on 22 January and 19 February 2018: From Face/Off to the Face Race: