In the nineteenth century, globalization acquired a new intensity which has persisted until this day.

For scholars interested in the historical practice of belonging in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, please see the following call for papers. Abstracts are due by 16 October 2017:

Global South Studies, a digital platform sponsored by the Global South journal, is soliciting contributions. See Dr. Anne Garland Mahler's introduction to the Global South heuristic here (and excerpted below): The Global South as a critical concept has three primary definitions.

The Munich Crisis and the People:

For readers interested in the history of China's place in the world, see this call for papers for a conference to be held at Flinders University from 29-30 January, 2018. 200-word abstracts are due by 1 November 2017: Amidst Empires:

The fifth European Congress in World and Global History opens today in Budapest.

For readers interested in the history of international law in the twentieth century, see this conference announcement from the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg.

For those TPF readers looking for an assistant professor position in global and international studies, the History Department at Boston College has announced the following job opportunity.  The call for applications explains more:

For readers of the Global History Blog, here's a recent call for attendance at a workshop titled "Global Cultural Encounters (1750-1950)" at the University of Michigan on August 2-4, 2017. The workshop that will take place with the participation of many important scholars including Albert Wu…

On September 22- 23 2017, the Leeds Baines Group for the Comparative Study of Unfree Labour and the Working Group on Comparative Slavery will host a research conference in Leeds, UK, comparing abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions. Proposals are due July 15th. The organizers write:

Advanced PhD students working on transnational/transregional topics may be interested in applying for a Gerald D. Feldman travel grant. Areas for study include: China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Turkey, USA.

Researchers working at the intersections of global history and architectural history may like to participate in the fifth European Architectural History Network International Meeting to be held in Tallinn, Estonia during June 2018 by the European Architectural History Network.

Readers of the Global History blog may consider participating in " a forum to discuss the challenges and possibilities of writing multi-sited modern histories that encompass fully situated lives and local contexts".

For scholars working on violence (both symbolic and material), see this call for papers for an interdisciplinary conference organized by The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris:

Our graduate student readers should consider this exciting call for submissions for the journal Global Histories: Deadline: July 10th, 2017 … In recent years, global history has become one of the most ambitious and promising strands of historical research.