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.

Followers of the Toynbee Prize Foundation will recall that we unveiled this current version of our website this autumn after extensive revision and collaboration with the fantastic staff at George Mason University's Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

It's no secret that one of the most booming sub-disciplines in international and global history today is the history of development–the interaction of the rich world with the poor world before (but especially after) empire, in the hopes that poor societies could be "developed" into something better.

Followers of the Toynbee Prize Foundation's activities will be interested to know that there's an excellent in-depth feature article in Harvard Magazine–an independent journal founded by Crimson alumni–covering the state of global history today, at least through the lens of activities in Cambridge.

We're pleased to re-post a recent call for applications from the Global Humanitarianism Research Academy (GHRA), a wonderful opportunity for both PhDs and early post-docs working on the history of humanitarianism to get together for two weeks in Mainz (Germany)…