For readers of the Global History Blog interested in the history of human rights and humanitarianism – but also in entangling its history with the history of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and state socialism writ large – here's a terrific recent call for papers organized by the Exeter…

If you are a graduate or a postdoctoral student from Germany or NYU Global Network universities in New York, Shanghai and Abu Dhabi, who want to spend the summer vacation efficiently, there is a great opportunity for you!

If you've been paying close attention to the Toynbee Prize Foundation's website, you'll have seen some changes to our Board of Trustees, as we seek to adjust our Board membership to reflect the more and more international landscape of global history writing today.

The Toynbee Prize Foundation (TPF) invites applications for Editors-at-Large for its Global History Blog.

Readers following recent historiographical debates about global history may be following not only scholars like Sebastian Conrad (whom we interviewed on his recent intervention this winter) but also the French historian Serge Gruzinski…

As noted in our previous post regarding a position at the Jacobs University in Bremen, there are still plenty of academic positions out there with spring deadlines—especially for those adventurous enough to look outside of the American market.

For those readers of the Global History Blog still on the job market–and looking for employment options in Southern California–here's a recent posting that might be of interest.

For those readers of the Global History Blog based in the United Kingdom or Europe more generally, here's a recent call for proposals for LSE's International History Research Seminar worth considering.

For those TPF readers in the vicinity of northern Italy, here's a reminder that the University of Trento will host the conference "Empires after the First World War - Ideas of Empire, Identity and Citizenship" from May 19-20 (i.e. Thursday and Friday of this week).

For those readers of the Global History Blog already looking ahead to their plans for next year–or those interested in putting together panels with colleagues–here's a recent announcement worth following.

Continuing the list of positions in the Middle East we've been posting recently, here is a recent attractive position in Doha, Qatar that looks terrific, especially for those TPF readers with fluency in the Arabic language.

The University of Dundee's The Scottish Centre for Global History is pleased to announce Global History Day, to be held at the River Rooms, Humanities Building, Tower at Dundee on  May 18, 2016. The program is planned as two session:

TODO REACTIVATE 20140920 … For those readers of the Global History Blog interested in positions that blend scholarship with administration, here's a recent posting for a position in Leipzig, Germany at the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (IfL).

TODO REACTIVATE 20140920 Readers of the Toynbee Prize Foundation's Global History Forum may recall our interview with historian Corinna Unger this past autumn – then based at the Jacobs University in Bremen, but now a Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

For those followers of the Toynbee Prize Foundation interested in Latin American history – and those fancying a trip to Brazil this autumn – here's a recent call for papers that looks of interest.