The Global History Initiative is happy to announce its 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鈥9:45 Lisa Hellman: 鈥淕lobal History For-and as-the Future鈥
9:45鈥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鈥9:30 Ian Hesketh: 鈥淭he Science of Global History?鈥
9:30鈥10:30 Antoon De Baets: 鈥淭he Schr枚dinger Universality of Historiography鈥
10:30鈥10:45 Break
10:45鈥11:45 Tyson Retz: 鈥淓xemplifying Categories: The Example of Early Twentieth-Century Progressive Associations鈥
April 17 | Day 3 | Decolonization, Locality, and Geopolitics
9:30鈥10:30 Larissa Schulte-Nordholt: 鈥淭he Problem of 鈥淟ocal鈥 Knowledge鈥
10:30鈥10:45 Break
10:45鈥11:45 Dominic Sachsenmaier: 鈥淕lobal History in an Age of Geopolitical Crises鈥
11:45-12:00 Break
12:00-13:00 Plenary discussion with all presenters followed by closing remarks by Amitava Chowdhury