What We're Reading This Week

What We're Reading This Week

Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín (The Graduate Institute Geneva) describes his dissertation, ‘Architects of the Better World’: The Birth of the International Conference Complex (1918-1998), a study of how infrastructure, commodities, and material objects have shaped the contours of global governance and law in just sixty seconds.

What We're Reading This Week

Antoney Bell (McGill University) discusses his research on slavery and racial politics, transatlantic networks of métissage, and the intersection of colonial legal systems in the Atlantic world in just sixty seconds.

What We're Reading This Week

What We're Reading This Week

Collaboration makes sense for global historians. When two (or more) scholars bring different training, sources, and methodologies to a historical problem, they make discoveries that a solo researcher would miss. In contrast to other fields in the humanities and social sciences, historians usually pursue research projects independently rather than as part of a team. We found it exciting to share and develop ideas together, and collaboration inspired and motivated us to put words on paper. Our experiences show that scholars from different yet intersecting fields, located at opposite ends of the globe, and who have never met in person, can write together. The low costs of virtual engagement break down some of the barriers that have historically prevented scholars in the global north and global south from writing together, in addition to facilitating south-south collaborations, and in this sense can be seen as important to efforts to decolonize global history.

What We're Reading This Week

What We're Reading This Week

What We're Reading This Week

What We're Reading This Week

What We're Reading This Week

What We're Reading This Week

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