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Global & Transregional History

The GHI’s engagement with global and transregional history is an outgrowth of its work in transatlantic history and its longstanding interest in comparative history, especially historical comparisons of the U.S. and Germany. Global and transregional history at the GHI are defined less by subject matter than by analytical perspective. GHI-supported research explores processes that transcend individual polities and entangle disparate states, regions, and continents. The GHI is particularly interested in historical comparison as a tool to illuminate trends and developments at the transregional and global levels.

Photo Credit: Electrification of the World, ca. 1892. Edward Carqueville, Library of Congress.

Team

Projects

In Global Transit

In Global Transit currently consists of two separate pillars: a conference series and resulting research network and individual projects from GHI research staff.

Interaction and Knowledge in the Pacific Region: Entanglements and Disentanglements

A project funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (March 2019 – February 2022)

Skyways to Empire: Mobilities, Knowledge Flows, and Entangled Logistics in Global Aviation, c. 1918–1939

Andreas Greiner

History in Limbo: Airport transit zones between global mobility and local order, 1945-2000

Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş

Knowledge about Mountains and Forests: Discourses and Transfer Practices in the Mining and Forestry Sciences – A Comparison of Central Europe and North America (1860-1960)

Swen Steinberg

Faces of Fear: A Global History of Anti-Chinese Stereotypes

Sören Urbansky

Events & Conferences

Apr 17, 2023

Knowledge Production in Displacement and Forced Migration

Workshop at the University of California, Santa Barbara | Conveners: Joshua Donovan (GHI Washington | Pacific Office), Vitalij Fastovskij (GHI Washington | Pacific Office), and Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Jul 04, 2023

Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries

Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies Duisburg | Organized by the University of Duisburg‐Essen (UDE), the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and the American Historical Association (AHA), in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM), the Institute for the Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) and the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)

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Publications

Bulletin 69 (Fall 2021 & Spring 2022)

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Simone Lässig, ed.

Digital History

Special Issue, Geschichte und Gesellschaft 47.1 (2021)

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Jan C. Jansen & Simone Lässig, eds.

Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison

Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Andrea Westermann & Onur Erdur, eds.

Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Bulletin Supplement 15 (2020)

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Bulletin 65 (Fall 2019)

Forum: The Weimar Republic Reconsidered

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Jan C. Jansen, Jessica Harland-Jacobs & Elizabeth Mancke, eds.

The Fraternal Atlantic, 1770–1930

Special Issue, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 16.3 (2019)

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Latest News

Opportunities

Studentische Hilfskraft (w/m/d)

Deadline: November 30, 2022 | The German Historical Institute Washington is hiring a Student Research Assistant for the global and transregional…

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Call for Papers

Diaspora and Debris: Material Culture in German-Jewish History

Deadline: December 15, 2022 | Seventh Junior Scholars Conference in Jewish History at GHI Washington, April 25-28, 2023

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Pacific Office

Global Challenge in the Asia-Pacific – Past & Present

Lecture Series at UC Berkeley and Stanford University, November 14 & 16, 2022 | Sponsored by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius

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Fellowship

Visiting Fellowships at the GHI

Deadline: December 1, 2022 | The GHI is now accepting applications for its 2022-2023 visiting fellow program for European and North American scholars…

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Video

Watch recording of our event "Congealed Labor, Conserved Fish"

If you were unable to watch our event "Congealed Labor, Conserved Fish: From the Adriatic towards a Global History of the Canned Sardine" live, it is…

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