GHC Summer Schools
2018: Paris
GHC Paris Summer School, Monday June the 18 –Saturday June the 23rd.
Venue: EHESS. 54 Bd Raspail 75006 Paris
Room A 06-37
Programm
Venue for all the sessions :
54 bd Raspail 75006
Room A 06-37
(sixth floor, you see a room just in front of the elevators. Entry on the right door (from the elevators) then left.
Monday
Monday morning 9:30-11:45
Welcome
Decolonization Narratives.
Marc Elie, Paris
Masashi Haneda, Tokyo
Monday afternoon
14-17
Miloš Vojinović, Berlin, Undesidered Migration: the Round Table, State Prerogatives and peopling of the British Empire.
Shi Zhiqiang, University of Tokyo, Legal pluralism and the Qing Empire: a focus on Northeast China
Eleonore Chanlat, EHESS, The uncertainties of Indian finance and famine relief: an imperial debate ? (1877-1910s)
Dinner 20 h: Les éditeurs, 4 carrefour de l’Odéon, 75006 Paris
Tuesday
Morning 9:30-11:45 Panel 2 seniors
Xavier Paules
Natasha Wheatley
Tuesday afternoon 14-17 students
Wang Wenlu, University of Tokyo, Translating Christianity into Asia: Chinese Catholic Catechisms of the 17th Century
Daniel Kolland, Berlin, Doing Modernity — Or « How to Launch an Illustrated Journal ».
Caitlin Harvey, Princeton, University Boosterism in the British World, 1850-1914.
Dinner, 20h
Le parc au cerfs, 50, rue Vavin, 75006 Paris
Wednesday
Wednesday morning: students
Seyni Alice Gueye, EHESS, To be Portuguese in Macao in the seventeenth century (ca. 1620-1660)
Miles Macallister Princeton, A Pacific Crisis, Solved in Paris: the 1893 Fur Seal Arbitration
Wednesday afternoon: meeting of the organizers
Thursday
Thursday morning
9:30-11:45 Panel 3 seniors. framing time of the Global.
Alessandro Stanziani
Matthew Karp
Thursday afternoon: students 14-17
Gabriela Goldin, Paris, 18th century antiquarianism between Mexico and Rome
Vincent Huang, University of Tokyo, The Production of Colonial Spatial Knowledge: a Case Study on Imperial Japan
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Leonie Wolters, Berlin, The Making of a Global Intellectual: Otherness as Cultural Capital 1900 – 1950
Dinner 20 h
La Chantairelle, 17 rue Laplace 75005 Paris
Friday
Friday morning: students 9:30-11:45
Yorim Spoelder, Berlin, Transcolonial Knowledge Networks and the ‘Discovery’ of Greater India
Niharika Yadav, Princeton, Indian socialism in the 20th century.
Friday afternoon : students
Jessica R. Mack, Princeton, The development of Mexico’s UNAM in global context, 1920-1975.
Albertine Duprat, EHESS, Aluminum everywhere ? An environmental history of Aluminum Company of America.
Asada Rei, University of Tokyo, A balancing act: rural development without urbanization, case of Sri Lanka
Saturday morning
Musée de l’homme, 10 h.
metro Trocadéro
2017: Berlin
GHC Summer School, Berlin
September 03 – 10, 2017
Draft Program
Sunday, September 3rd
Arrival of participants
7 p.m. Welcome reception at re:work
Monday, September 4th
9.30 a.m. Opening
10 a.m. Yuki Terada, The Establishment and Evolution of Museums in Iran
(Discussant: Susanne A. Schmidt)
11 a.m. Mengfei Pan, The Meiji “Art” that Crossed Boundaries: A Study of
Asahi Gyokuzan’s Life and Works
(Discussant: Yaruipam Muivah)
12 a.m. Lunch
2 p.m. Rob Konkel, Creating a Global Economy: (Un-)Cooperative
Internationalism, Technocratic Global Capitalism, and the Making of
the Modern World, 1919-1939
(Discussant: Federico Del Giudice)
3 p.m. Christoph Plath, Reframing Human Rights. Collective Rights, the New
Economic Order and the Legacy of Third-Worldism
(Discussant: Pablo Pryluka)
4 p.m. Coffee
5 p.m. Guided tour of the Holocaust Memorial
7.30 p.m. Dinner
Tuesday, September 5th
10 a.m. Yufei Zhou, Imagining the Self with the Other’s Voices: Karl August
Wittfogel and East Asia
(Discussant: Disha Karnad Jani)
11 a.m. Susanne A. Schmidt, The Midlife Crisis, Gender, and Social Sciences in
the United States, 1970-90
(Discussant: Mengfei Pan)
12 a.m. Lunch in a nearby restaurant
2 p.m. Yorim Spoelder, Staging the Nation Beyond the Raj: Visions of
Greater India, the Discourse of Civilization and Nationalist
Imagination (1905-1964)
(Discussant: Yufei Zhou)
3 p.m. Disha Karnad Jani, “A People Gets the Kind of Leader It Deserves”:
M.N. Roy and the Problem of Freedom
(Discussant: Eléonore Chanlat-Bernard)
4 p.m. Coffee break
4.30 p.m. Global history already on decline? (Discussion of Jeremy Adelman,
What is Global History Now?)
7 p.m. Dinner
Wednesday, September 6th
10 a.m. Shohei Okubo, The Trade, Distribution and Consumption of South
Asian Products in the Eighteenth Century Malay-Indonesian
Archipelego
(Discussant: Devika Shankar)
11 a.m. Pablo Pryluka, Consumption and Advertising: A Genealogy of Anti-
Consumerism in Argentina from a Global Perspective
(Discussant: Fabian Steininger)
12 a.m. Lunch
1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Internal meeting GHC coordinators
3.30 p.m – 5 p.m. Guided tour of the Boros Collection, followed by dinner
Thursday, September 7th
9 a.m. Devika Shankar, Slippery Sovereignties: The Princely States of
Malabar and the Development of British Cochin, 1800-1920
(Discussant: Yorim Spoelder)
10 a.m. Eléonore Chanlat-Bernard, An Imperial History of Welfare between
Britain and Colonial India (c.1870s-1940s)
(Discussant: Shohei Okubo)
11 a.m. Coffee break
11.30 a.m. Federico Del Giudice, Migration, Labour and Welfare: The Case of the
Italian Workforce in France During the Interwar Period
(Discussant: Rob Konkel)
12.30 p.m. Lunch
Free afternoon & evening
Friday, September 8th
10 a.m. Yaruipam Muivah, Servitude and Abolition in Colonial North-East
India, 1881-1930
(Discussant: Christoph Plath)
11 a.m. Fabian Steininger, Mass Violence against Istanbul Armenians in
August 1896
(Discussant: Yuki Terada)
12 a.m. Lunch
1.30 p.m. Roundtable: National Narratives of global integration
4 p.m. END
Saturday, September 9th
Excursion to Potsdam
Sunday, September 10th
Departure of participants
2016
The 2016 Summer seminar will take place in Princeton, on May 7-15, 2016
2015
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Pictures and reports of the first summer seminar can be consulted on the following page:
http://ghc.wp.ehess.fr/2015/09/28/pictures-of-the-2015-summer-seminar/
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GHC (Global History Collaborative) First Annual Summer School – September 7-13, 2015 – Tokyo
Outline
Overall Title: The Question of Scale in Global History
Concept and Objective:
In global history studies that are not entrenched in the conventional frameworks of historical research, it is important to keep three “scales” in mind. These are the temporal scale, spatial scale and the scale of the subject.What is the appropriate time scale for discussing a specific research topic? The time scale can range from the entire history of the universe or the Earth, and thus from an emphasis on the very longue durée, to events and specific moments, and thus to a focus on the synchronicity. Every topic can be studied using different temporal frames depending on the questions we ask. What scale is the most appropriate for our own topic and questions? How should the periodization used in national or regional histories be treated in global history? Is a different periodization needed in global history?
The question of what is the appropriate spatial scale for discussing a specific research topic is also a challenging one. The spatial scale can range from the entire Earth or regions of the Earth to villages or towns. Global history, by definition, should be concerned with the “world.” But, the scale of the “world” varies. Sometimes, one can see the world in an island, or a person, or an institution. Sometimes, it is planetary. Sometimes, a single unit can cross scales from the micro to the macro levels. Indeed, one important turn in global history has been towards tracking subjects across a variety of scales to overcome the dichotomous tendency to go global for “context” or go local for “detail”. As far as issues of space are concerned, it is helpful to differentiate between units and scales. Within the field of global history, historians have begun to explore alternative spaces beyond the nation states, ranging from oceans and large regions to networks and to micro-histories. But, whatever the unit of enquiry, historians can relate their unit of analysis to a variety of scales: local, national, regional, trans-oceanic, global. What are the advantages of opting for specific analysis of units? What are the effects of referencing multiple scales? To what extent do we locate causality on a global scale?
Furthermore, what is the appropriate scale of the subject being studied in a given research project? The subject of research can range from plants, animals, or individual or groups of people to the Earth as whole. It is possible to seek historical understanding and descriptions of a wide variety of subjects. Accordingly, the methods for understanding and writing historical narratives will inevitably differ by scale of the subject.
The question of scale is closely linked to the question of what the researcher wants to elucidate. In that sense, the question of scale is a shared concern for all global history researchers, irrespective of their specific research themes.
The objective of the summer school is to enable participants to gain new insight and knowledge and to produce high-level research through the exchange of ideas and information related to their individual research topics while paying sufficient attention to these three “scales.”
Faculty members of GHC institutions will attend the school to and discuss with students.
Dates: September 7 (Monday) to 13 (Sunday), 2015
Locations:
Sep.7 to 9: The University of Tokyo, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
Sep.10, 11: Hokkaido University
Sep.12, 13: Excursion. Visiting historical sites related to scale issues of global history in HokkaidoFaculty members expected to attend the school:
Andreas Eckert (Berlin-Humboldt University)
Sebastian Conrad (Berlin Free University)
Antonella Romano (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Alessandro Stanziani (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Silvia Sebastiani (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University)
Haneda Masashi (The University of Tokyo)
Kuroda Akinobu (The University of Tokyo)Further information and Contact:
http://ghc.wp.ehess.fr/
http://coretocore.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
GHC summer school program office: ghc@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp