Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist. "The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver
CALL FOR PAPERS | International Summer School "Towards Inclusive Global Histories" in Sweden
CALL FOR PAPERS | International Summer School "Towards Inclusive Global Histories" in Sweden
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The UP Asian Center in collaboration with the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), the Global Diplomacy Network (GDN), and the Linnaeus University Center for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (LNUC) is now ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for the International Summer School "Towards Inclusive Global Histories" on 7-9 September 2025 at Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden. The deadline for applications is on 31 January 2025.
ABOUT THE SUMMER SCHOOL
Archives and Voices have become much-debated aspects of recent research in global history. Under the overall theme of “Towards Inclusive Global Histories” the summer school aims to further discussion, self-reflection, and the exploration of new avenues in global history. We aim to explore alternative ways of practicing global history and to meet the challenges of connectivity bias, Eurocentrism, Anglophone dominance, and lack of attention to gender perspectives and Indigenous methodologies. In recent years, decoloniality as a research practice and method has raised further questions regarding the situatedness of knowledge and the role of local sources in global history. At the same time, a current nationalist backlash in many countries has led to calls for a return to national history, thereby challenging the fundamental premises of global history.
The summer school will focus on three novel research fields within global history: Global Diplomacy, gender, and environmental questions. By framing approaches that emphasize different voices and alternative archives in terms of “global histories” in the plural, we aim to promote the inclusion of a broad range of voices, perspectives, and orientations within the field, while forcefully rejecting the possibility of insisting on a single, dominating story or grand narrative of global history. The summer school will offer plenary sessions by leading experts in the field and allow for hands-on methodological conversations among all participating scholars. Early career scholars will be encouraged to reflect on key methodological questions along the lines of the summer school themes with scholars from around the world.
We invite contributions consisting of projects based on original research and empirically grounded PhD thesis work in progress. We encourage theoretical, methodological, ethical, and historiographical reflections on how to make global history more inclusive. Although the main language of the summer school will be English, individual presentations and panels in other languages can be accommodated.
In particular, we welcome contributions (individual papers) tailored to one (or more) of the following themes:
• Indigenous, subaltern, gender, LGBTQ+, non-human, and minority studies • Expanding the global archive along and against digitization • Diplomatic practices, languages, and concepts of Interpolity Relation, c. 1400–1900 • Global History and Decoloniality • National history, nationalist backlash, and identity politics • Global Environmental History • Nordic Colonialism
With these themes in mind, the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) is happy to announce its summer school in partnership with the Global Diplomacy Network and the Concurrences Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies to be held at Växjö, Sweden, on 7–9 September 2025. Early career scholars (PhD students, postdocs, and assistant professors) are invited to present on-going research exploring relations, transfers, and entanglements between actors or groups of actors located in, or spanning, different regions of the world allowing for comparative and longue durée conversations. The summer school provides the perfect platform to kick-start a week of intense discussions that will culminate in the 8th European Congress on World and Global History (10–12 September 2025).
APPLICATION PROCESS AND ELIGIBILITY
The Call is open to Ph.D. students and early career scholars from history and related disciplines, who work in the interdisciplinary field of writing connected, entangled, or comparative histories that incorporate transnational or transregional perspectives or challenge the confines of national and Eurocentric historiographies.
The Summer School will cover the participation fees of early career scholars from the Global South, who may not have access to institutional funding. Travel grants will be considered awarded to outstanding applicants based on availability and individual needs.
• The language of presentations will be English but papers in other languages are also accepted. • Participants are expected to present a paper of 3000–4000 words as the basis for discussion with the whole group. • On the final day, participants are invited to pitch their research to the audience of the ENIUGH congress, marking the end of summer school and the opening of the ENIUGH congress.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Applications should be submitted electronically as ONE PDF DOCUMENT containing the following:
• Curriculum Vitae (CV) • Summary / Exposé of the Dissertation • Abstract of planned paper • Contact data and Institutional affiliation.
Submit your applications to Christoph Gümmer: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The last day of submission is 31st January 2025.
As a multilingual forum, ENIUGH serves to exchange knowledge among scholars based in Europe while offering many opportunities to connect with colleagues from other world regions. Building on the long tradition of world history writing in Europe, ENIUGH promotes the multiplicity of topical and methodological approaches to the study of past and current processes of cross-cultural interaction and entanglements in historical and interdisciplinary scholarship. The network advocates the transcending of former Eurocentric, teleological, and universalist assumptions, and seeks to help contextualize the continent’s past within a global perspective.
The Global Diplomacy Network (GDN) aims to produce a new understanding of global diplomatic history that moves beyond the traditional Eurocentric narrative. It brings together a global community of scholars to examine the contributions of diplomatic actors and conceptual traditions from around the world. Its continuously growing members in different disciplines adjacent to history gather regularly to discuss different aspects of inter-polity relations between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
The Linnaeus University Center for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies is one of six principal research environments of Linnaeus University and the leading postcolonial center in Europe. As an interdisciplinary research center, it comprises researchers from Archaeology, Comparative Literature, English Literature, French Literature, History, Study of Religions, Social Work, and Sociology.
Since its foundation in 2002, the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) has emerged as the leading international association for research and teaching in world and global history. Following seven successful congresses in Leipzig, Dresden, London, Paris, Budapest, Turku, and The Hague, the next ENIUGH congress will be held at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden.
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The UP Asian Center offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. The Center offers a Ph.D. program in Philippine Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. The Asian Center also publishes Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website. For other news and upcoming events at the Asian Center, click here.
