The Global History Initiative if happy to announce it's upcoming online conference "Critical Issues in Global Historiography" from April 15-17, 2026.
To receive a link to the conference, please RSVP to global.history@queensu.ca
Conference Schedule
Note that all times below are in EDT.
April 15 | Day 1 | Deep Time and the Future of Global History
8:30 Daniel Woolf, Opening Remarks
8:45–9:45 Lisa Hellman: “Global History For-and as-the Future”
9:45–10:45 Q. Edward Wang (11:00-12:00 EDT) All Under Heaven: Chinese Cosmology and the Reframing of Global History
April 16 | Day 2 | Science, Universality, and Conceptual Scale
8:30–9:30 Ian Hesketh: “The Science of Global History?”
9:30–10:30 Antoon De Baets: “The Schrödinger Universality of Historiography”
10:30–10:45 Break
10:45–11:45 Tyson Retz: “Constellations of Tradition in a Global Age”
April 17 | Day 3 | Decolonization, Locality, and Geopolitics
8:30–9:30 Nathalie Kouamé: “The Global Rise of Women’s and Gender Studies”
9:30–10:30 Larissa Schulte-Nordholt: “The Problem of “Local” Knowledge”
10:30–10:45 Break
10:45–11:45 Dominic Sachsenmaier: “Global History in an Age of Geopolitical Crises”
11:45-12:00 Break
12:00-13:00 Plenary discussion with all presenters followed by closing remarks by Amitava Chowdhury