Itinerario, the International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction (part of Cambridge University Press) is looking for reviewers for the following titles (see list below). Are any of you interested in reviewing the following books (list below) for the journal?

May 7, 2013, 9-11 AM (PDT) Convenor: Randolph Head (UC-Riverside) Co-convenors: Arndt Brendecke (Munich), Hilde de Weerdt (London-King's College) Attendance: In-person in Riverside, CA, or via Adobe Connect (globally) To participate:

Please consider submitting an abstract for this session at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in Chicago in February 2014. Chicago, CAA Annual Conference, February 12 - 15, 2014 … ITALY, PERSIA, AND EARLY MODERN GLOBALISM … Cristelle Baskins, Tufts University, and Pamela Jones…

World History Center, University of Pittsburgh … Doctoral Workshop in World History, June 3 -15, 2013 … The World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh is happy to announce its third two-week summer doctoral workshop on World History.

Friday 3 May at 17.00 … Rothermere American Institute, Oxford … All welcome … No scholar has done more to explain and illuminate the history of the Atlantic and the nations and empires that have bordered it than Professor Sir John Elliott, FBA.

The University of Oxford's Transnational and Global History group is pleased to announce a one-day interdisciplinary workshop on 'Global Knowledge', to be held at Ertegun House, Oxford on 10 May 2013,with a keynote address by Professor Sir Christopher Bayly.

Al-Andalus:

The Midwest Association for Middle East and Islamic Studies (MAMEIS), in conjunction with the Department of History at Indiana State University, is pleased to announce the date for the 2013 MAMEIS Annual Conference, which is to be held Saturday April 6, 2013 in Terre Haute, Ind.

International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 64th Annual Conference - Ireland … Call for Papers - Parliaments and the Colonial / Imperial Experience in Ireland and the Wider World … Dates: 4 – 7 September 2013 … Location:

It is now widely recognized that ours is a global age. One of the first to perceive and then describe this "happening" was the sociologist Martin Albrow, in his book with the title  The Global Age. Since its appearance, in 1996 numerous studies have been published.

" I'm not saying, 'After me, chaos ,'" French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the newspaper  Le Figaro  with a wink in an interview published Friday, April 20, on the eve of the first-round election that saw him lose to Socialist Party leader François Hollande.

Starting August 1, Martin Klimke will become a full research fellow at the German Historical Institute and most likely remain in DC for 5 years.

Ray Grew gave a talk on global history at the College of Wooster in February and offered advice on how they can incorporate global history into their interesting curriculum. This was part of a general review of their program that another outside historian and Grew undertook for them.

Jason Ralph has been awarded some funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) to pursue his research project:

There is an upcoming conference entitled "1989 in a Global Perspective" which will be held at the University of Leipzig, Germany from October 14 to 16, 2009.…