Readers of the blog interested in the global history of migration and immigration may like to participate in a conference exploring new perspectives on Jewish flight and exile from Nazi Europe.

For readers interested in the history of international law and international institutions, here's a call for papers with a particular focus on Eastern Europe:

For those on the job market this year, here is an attractive position at the University of Exeter, via their Imperial & Global Forum. The University is seeking a Lecturer in Global and Imperial History. As the call for applications notes:

The Toynbee Prize Foundation has elected Aden Knaap, a PhD candidate in History and the Knox Fellow at Harvard University, as the second Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, effective June 1, 2017. Knaap, a native of Australia, received  his BA in History (Hons I)…

From Cape Town as the "Tavern of the Seas" to Liverpool as the "World in One City", ports pose some unique questions--and opportunities--for global historians.

Young scholars working in the global history of migration will be excited to participate in a new annual program offered by GHI Washington and explore the history of migration from a supra-epochal, trans-regional and also interdisciplinary perspective.

The Economist has recently published a review of Joel Mokyr's new book, A Culture of Growth:

For readers interested in the international dimensions of fascism, here's an exciting (and topical) call for applications for an interdisciplinary workshop  to be held at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City:

Surprisingly little research focuses on how the mid to late eighteenth century rise of the British East India Company's empire in India coincided with the disintegration of British control over what became the United States.

The British Scholar Society is accepting paper proposals for its 2017 conference (to be held from April 6-8, 2017), which will take place in Austin, Texas:

A panel will be held during the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, held in Milwaukee on September 22-23, 2017, on Indigenous Discovery and Exploration History.

Scholars across multiple disciplines--international relations, archaeology, visual arts, music, and geography, to name a few--are invited to Lisbon this July to discuss the shared cultural heritage of oceans.

H-Soz-u-Kult has just posted a review (in German) of Steven Jensen's new book, The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values by Annette Weinke of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

For graduate student readers of the Global History Blog, here's a recent call for applications for a terrific graduate student-focused conference on global history at the Freie Universität Berlin:

For those TPF readers looking for assistant professor position on global studies, Lesley University, Massachusetts, US has announced job opportunity for 9 months. The call for applications explains more: