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:

For readers of the Global History Blog here's a recent call for paper titled "Grappling with the Global: The Challenge of Boundaries in History and Sociology.

International lnstitute of Social History is pleased to announce The Twelfth European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) titled "World History Network: Endings in World and Global History" to be held on April 4-7, 2018 at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. The call for papers explains more:

Readers who work on the history of life sciences around the globe may be excited to participate in the prestigious week-long Ischia Summer School. Participants will receive advanced training in history of the life sciences through lectures, seminars and discussions.

For those readers of the Global History Blog looking for a post-doctoral fellowship, here's the good opportunity on transnational Korean studies! University of California , San Diego has announced a postdoctoral/lecturer position in Transnational Korean Studies for the 2017-18 academic year.