Our colleagues at the Excellence Cluster "Europe and Asia in Context," a leader center for trans-cultural studies, have announced that they will be offering four doctoral scholarships for the coming winter semester of 2015-16. The scholarships, the announcement (here in German) notes…

Here's a recent fellowship announcement that may be of interest to readers: Merton College, a constituent College at the University of Oxford, proposes to elect a Peter J Braam Research Fellow in Global Wellbeing for three years commencing on 1 October 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Here's an exciting event for readers located in London: on Tuesday, February 3, Dr.Leslie James, a Lecturer in World History at the University of Cambridge, will discuss her new book,  George Padmore and Decolonisation from Below:

The University of Macau has advertised a tenure-track position for an Assistant or Associate Professor of World and Global History, expected to begin in August 2015. "Applicants," the call explains, Applicants should have a PhD in hand by the time of employment and some teaching experience…

Our colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh have advertised a neat post-doctoral position in World History that should attract readers of the Global History Forum and Global History Blog.

Our friends at the German Historical Institute in London are organizing a conference this coming autumn that will surely interest followers of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. Entitled "The Global Public:

The 2014 Toynbee Prize Lecture was delivered by Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago) on Saturday, January 3, 2015, at the 2015 American Historical Association Annual Meeting. In his lecture, entitled "From Globalization to Global Warming:

Visitors to this year's American Historical Association Annual Meeting in New York City are reminded of the Toynbee Prize Lecture taking place at this year's conference.

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

The Department of General History and the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva have made the following announcement for a PhD scholarship in Contemporary History with an application deadline of January 5, 2015. The call for applications, issued in French, reads as follows:

In the middle of job market season, two recent postings may interest readers. At Exeter College (a constituent College at the University of Oxford), the Bennett Boskey Fellowship in Extra-European History Since 1500 offers a 36-month post-doctoral fellowship among the dreaming spires.

Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton: it's one of the most keenly anticipated works of history this year, and you can read an adapted excerpt here at The Atlantic.

An announcement over from our colleagues at the University of Sydney's Laureate Research Program in International History:

T he Leiden University Institute for History is seeking applications for  a f ull professor of International Studies with a specialization in Global History. From the announcement:

The Department of History at the Memorial University of Newfoundland is seeking applications for an Assistant Professor in Global History which will commence on July 1, 2015. The application deadline is December 15, 2014, and interested applicants should visit the application announcement.