CAROLINE KAHLENBERG … Elizabeth Dore, 'Which Way for Cuba?,' Dissent. Ab Cahan, 'My First Pesach in America - In 1883,' Forward. Walter Johnson, 'Guns in the Family,' Boston Review. Rachel Syme, 'The Fate of the Juicy Couture Tracksuit in the Age of Athleisure,' The New Yorker.

For those interested in the First World War in a global context, this conference titled "Global War, Global Connections, Global Moments - International Conference about the First World War" is for you. The call for papers explains more:

JAMES PARKER … Bronwen Everill, 'Demarginalizing West Africa in the Age of Revolutions,' Blog Age of Revolutions. Miriam Abaya, 'The Resignation of Old Leaders Does Not Guarantee a New Era of Leadership in Africa,' Blog Africa@LSE.

It's time to begin planning your summer program and conference travels in global history!

NAGOTHU NARESH KUMAR … Sinem Adar, "Understanding Religion in (New) Turkey," Jadaliyya. Bill Niven, "Adolf Hitler, Film Fanatic," History Today. Ian Johnson, "Chairman Xi, Chinese Idol," New York Review of Books.

For those interested in the history of migration in a global context, this conference titled "Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives" is for you. The call for papers explains more:

MARTIN CREVIER … Christopher Heaney, "As Peru Heads to the 2018 World Cup, Its Star Striker Has Three Inca Mummies to Thank," The New Yorker. Monica Hesse, "The Secret History of America's Ailing Presidents and the Doctors Who Covered Up For Them," The Washington Post.

The Emmy Noether Research Group Reaching the People: Communication and Global Orders in the Twentieth Century invites applications for two fully-funded PhD positions. Successful candidates will be part of the Center for Global History at Freie Universität Berlin.

FATMA ALADAǦ … Richard Drayton and David Motadel, "The Futures of Global History," Cambridge Core Blog. Scott Jaschik, "Does Tenure Process Keep Professors Focused on US?," Inside Higher Education. Patrick Iber, "In the Cuban Sphere," The Nation.

JOEL VAN DE SANDE … Alexxa Gotthardt, 'The Algerian Teenager Who Painted a World of Liberated Women in 1940s Paris,' Artsy. Jacqueline Rose, 'I Am a Knife,'  London Review of Books. Neel Mukherjee, 'Displacing the Displacement Novel: V.S. Naipaul's In a Free State,' The  Paris Review.

Georgetown University has announced an international conference on political and cultural activism in a global and local context on March 23-24, 2018. The announcement explains more:

For those interested in labor migration in a global context, this conference titled "Global Labor Migration: Past and Present" is for you. The call for papers explains more:

For those undergraduate and graduate students interested in global history, here is a recent call for papers for you!

JOSHUA MILSTEIN … Adam Tooze, 'Notes on the Global Condition,' Blog Adam Tooze. Mike Beggs, 'The Keynesian Counterrevolution,' Jacobin. Firat Haciahmetoglu, 'The "World-Jewry" as a Misnomer for "the Globalists": Heidegger and Anti-Semitism,' The Philosophical Salon. Leon Aron, 'Kingdom Come:

Last Monday, 5 February, marked a milestone in the history of the post-Cold War era: for the first time, the period during which the Berlin Wall has been down has now lasted longer than the period when it divided its namesake city - and, more symbolically, Germany, Europe, and the world.