The Emmy Noether Research Group Reaching the People: Communication and Global Orders in the Twentieth Century invites applications for two fully-funded PhD positions. Successful candidates will be part of the Center for Global History at Freie Universität Berlin.

FATMA ALADAǦ … Richard Drayton and David Motadel, "The Futures of Global History," Cambridge Core Blog. Scott Jaschik, "Does Tenure Process Keep Professors Focused on US?," Inside Higher Education. Patrick Iber, "In the Cuban Sphere," The Nation.

JOEL VAN DE SANDE … Alexxa Gotthardt, 'The Algerian Teenager Who Painted a World of Liberated Women in 1940s Paris,' Artsy. Jacqueline Rose, 'I Am a Knife,'  London Review of Books. Neel Mukherjee, 'Displacing the Displacement Novel: V.S. Naipaul's In a Free State,' The  Paris Review.

Georgetown University has announced an international conference on political and cultural activism in a global and local context on March 23-24, 2018. The announcement explains more:

For those interested in labor migration in a global context, this conference titled "Global Labor Migration: Past and Present" is for you. The call for papers explains more:

For those undergraduate and graduate students interested in global history, here is a recent call for papers for you!

JOSHUA MILSTEIN … Adam Tooze, 'Notes on the Global Condition,' Blog Adam Tooze. Mike Beggs, 'The Keynesian Counterrevolution,' Jacobin. Firat Haciahmetoglu, 'The "World-Jewry" as a Misnomer for "the Globalists": Heidegger and Anti-Semitism,' The Philosophical Salon. Leon Aron, 'Kingdom Come:

Last Monday, 5 February, marked a milestone in the history of the post-Cold War era: for the first time, the period during which the Berlin Wall has been down has now lasted longer than the period when it divided its namesake city - and, more symbolically, Germany, Europe, and the world.

NAGOTHU NARESH KUMAR … Ian Johnson, 'Who Killed More: Hitler, Stalin, or Mao?,' NYR Daily. Matthew Wills, 'The Writer Who Told 19th Century Europe What to Think of America,' JSTOR Daily. David Abulafia, 'The Mediterranean and the Atlantic,' History Today.

For those interested in the transnational history of British Empire, here's a recent call for papers for a workshop announced by the University of Warwick titled "Doctoral and Early Career Workshop: Between & Beyond: Transnational Networks & the British Empire." The call for papers explains more:

For those interested in historical geography studies, here's a recent call for papers for a conference to be announced by David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University titled "Mapping and the Global Imaginary, 1500-1900." The call for papers explains more:

Global history is sometimes criticized for a kind of vague superficiality:

The University of Évora in Portugal is soliciting submissions for its international conference, to be held on 24 and 25 May 2018. The overall theme is "the colonial encounters fostered by...Iberian empire-building processes and...

MEGHNA CHAUDHURI … Carol Schaeffer, "Alt-Reich," The Caravan. Riddhi Bhandari, "XQs X - A Conversation with Anand Vivek Taneja," Chapati Mystery. Meagan Day, "The Shark and the Hound," The Baftler. Charlotte Higgins, "The Cult of Mary Beard," The Guardian.

This may be of interest to scholars of World War I and the history of Science: