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Global Microhistory. Opportunities, limits, dimensions
Event announcement
"What is global microhistory and what can it do?" is the central question of this international workshop, for which the organisers have been able to attract the most renowned representatives of microhistorical research currently available.
Current globalisation research in general and its methodological and theoretical conceptualisation relates almost exclusively to the 20th and 21st centuries and is primarily interested in the worldwide networking of economic activities and consumer behaviour. and 21st centuries and is primarily interested in the worldwide networking of economic activities and consumer behaviour.
In early modern research, on the other hand, questions of global interdependence processes have been discussed for some years in the context of a new "world history" and the problematisation of Eurocentric perspectives and academic discourses. However, this expansion of the areas of investigation within the framework of a global history has recently been criticised. Historian David Sebouh Aslanian, for example, remarked: "What happens to human identity, subjectivity, agency, and the like when we supersize scale in historical analysis"? (AHR Dec 2013). This is where the workshop comes in and discusses methodological and theoretical challenges of a micro-historical perspective on global contexts. Of interest are social practices, cross-border social interactions and worldwide networks of relationships, contingent spaces of action (play) and global communication practices as well as past crisis management at grassroots level.
Guests:
Prof. Dr Margaret Hunt (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
Prof. Dr Hans Medick (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Prof. Dr István M. Szijártó (University of Budapest, Hungary)
Where? Research Training Group "Self-Formations", Room A03 1-109, University of Oldenburg
When? 17.06.2015 - 18.06.2015
Further information and the programme are available at H/SOZ/KULT or can be downloaded as a PDF from the homepage of the CvO University.
Further information on the Department of Early Modern Studies at: Prizepapers.