Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions
In the early autumn of 2025, the European Network on Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) will hold its eighth congress at Linnaeus University, Växjö. Since its foundation in 2002, ENIUGH has established itself as the leading international association for research and teaching in world and global history. Linnaeus University is proud to have been chosen by the international Steering Committee of ENIUGH to hold the 2025 congress, which is expected to attract between 300 and 500 researchers and PhD students in global history and adjacent disciplines and fields of research.
The congress will feature contributions from a wide range of chronological, geographical, and thematic fields of research and thereby reflect the great diversity and broad scope of global history in Europe and beyond. In addition, the theme for the congress, ”Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions”, seeks to grapple with some of the most pertinent challenges currently facing global history. The field has expanded considerably since around 2000 and has emerged as a major branch of historical studies in Europe and across much of the world. In recent years, however, criticism has been voiced against global history for, among other things, its alleged Eurocentrism, teleological bias, and lack of gender perspectives. Against this background, and taking its cue from colonial and postcolonial studies, the congress theme has been chosen to align with the research focus of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, one of six centres of excellence at Linnaeus University.
For more information and the call for papers, see the congress website. The deadline for proposals for panels, roundtables and individual papers is 15 October 2024.
In connection with the congress, a summer school for PhD students will be organised in Växjö with the theme ”Inclusive Global Histories”. More information will follow during the autumn of 2024.
Welcome to Växjö in September 2025!
Congress Organisation Committee
Stefan Amirell (congress coordinator)
Marie Bennedahl
Niladri Chatterjee
Hans Hägerdal
Janne Lahti
Marten Manse
Eleonor Marcussen
Eleonora Poggio
Birgit Tremml-Werner
A Sustainable Event
This conference is a sustainability-assured meeting in accordance with Linnaeus University’s guidelines for sustainable events. These guidelines are linked to the 17 global goals in Agenda 2030 and comprise the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, the social, and the environmental.
Learn more about Linnaeus University´s sustainable events here.