For those readers of the Global History Blog interested in the history of utopias, socialism, and intellectual history, here is a recent call for papers for a conference on the "New Man" at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, Germany, taking place next year in September.

In late October, I paid Bruce a visit, and it was obvious that it would be our last encounter. He was pale, thin and bound to a wheelchair. His hearing had become so bad that it was better to write messages on a notepad.

The late Bruce Mazlish was a more than generous mentor for Europeans like me whom he saw in accordance with the mission of enlightenment, modernization, the promotion of freedom, critical liberalism and, in his view of particular importance…

I will remember Bruce in many ways.  I first met him when he tracked me down at some gathering while I was a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (and a nobody).  Bruce plucked me out of the crowd simply because he was interested in my work.

I came to know Bruce Mazlish late in his career. "Prof. M," as he asked me to call him, taught a seminar at Harvard with my advisor, Akira Iriye, who had asked me to help with some of the research for the seminar and to prepare the reading list.

This Foundation's focus on global history is due to Bruce Mazlish's ideas, skillful leadership, and personal gifts. To understand why that came to be, how he was so influential, becomes a way to celebrate his life.

Here's an interesting call for papers on global history organized by Birmingham Research Institute of History and Cultures called "The Modern Invention of Dynasty:

Queen Mary University London, Cambridge University, and the European University Institute have jointly issued a call for proposals for a workshop on the subject of "Law and Colonial Violence" worldwide, to be held at Queen Mary University London on February 14, 2017.

For readers of the Global History Blog interested in legal history in global context, here's a recent call for paper for a workshop titled "Global Legal Regimes: Beyond Imperial Frames" at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario that should be of interest:

The Toynbee Prize Foundation regrets to announce that Bruce Mazlish, the President of the Toynbee Prize Foundation in the late 1980s and 1990s and a leading scholar of global history, intellectual history, and psychohistorical approaches, passed away on Sunday in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Here's an recent call for papers for a wokshop on  history of war veterans in transnational context - taking place at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany on 6-8 July, 2017 entitled "War Veterans and the World after 1945:

For readers of the Global History Blog or Forum interested in Eurasian history—here understood in terms of the space of interactions between the Russian, Habsburg…

For graduate students writing dissertations–or merely an article– on the history of the Cold War, here's an annual tradition run jointly by UC Santa Barbara, the George Washington University, and the London School of Economics:

For scholars of American history in a global or transnational context—or simply those in the New York area who have enjoyed our features with scholars like Ryan Irwin or Jenifer van Vleck—here is a call for papers for a workshop at NYU on precisely that topic:

For readers of the Global History Blog based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, here's a recent call for seminar series titled "Approaches to Global History" by The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University on alternate Mondays, 4-6pm…