Summer School "Towards Inclusive Global Histories"

The summer school is organized in collaboration between the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), the Global Diplomacy Network (GDN), and the Asian Center, University of the Philippines. The summer school will bring together 22 PhD students and a team of 11 academics at the crossroads of Global History, Gender Studies, Global Diplomatic History, Indigenous Methodologies, History of Empires, and Nordic Colonialism. During these days, we will discuss and present content, historiography, concepts, and methodologies in these innovative fields. At the center of this is a stimulating program consisting of lectures, interactive workshops, and thorough discussions of the participants’ work.

The Summer School aims to further discussion, self-reflection, and the exploration of new avenues in global history. We strive to explore alternative approaches to practicing global history and to address the challenges of connectivity bias, Eurocentrism, Anglophone dominance, and the underrepresentation of gender perspectives and Indigenous methodologies. In recent years, decoloniality as a research practice and method has raised further questions regarding the situatedness of knowledge and the role of local sources in global history. At the same time, a current nationalist backlash in many countries has led to calls for a return to national history, thereby challenging the fundamental premises of global history.

Åke Wiberg Stiftelse, Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, the Global Diplomacy Network, and the European Network in Universal and Global History sponsor the Summer School.