Global History Annual Workshop 2026/27
Annual Global History Workshop "Temporalities"
Program June 8th 2026
Annual Workshop of the Vienna Global History Group
(FSP Globalgeschichte)
Temporalities in/and Global History
University of Vienna, 8 June 2026
WiSo Seminarraum, Stiege 6
9-10.30 am
Panel 1. Coexisting and conflicting temporal regimes
· Pascal-Cedric Winkler, Mongol Eurasia: The Maritime and Land-Based Silk Roads in a Temporal Conflict
· Kevin Miller, Protestant Temporality and its Clashes in 19th-Century China
Chair: Juliane Schiel
Discussants: Nikolai Markovic and Alexander Krauss
11am-12.30pm
Panel 2. Periodisations
· Augusto Petter, The Time of One’s Rule: Diagnosing Teleological Chronology from a Global History Perspective
· Alexander Krauss, Reflecting the Countours of Atlantic History
Chair: Alexis Rider
Discussants: Kevin Miller and Paul Wellens
12.30-2pm
Lunch break
2-3.30pm - Hörsaal 30, Stiege 7
Keynote lecture: Time for Empire: The Intermittence of the Global in the Early Modern World.
Giuseppe Marcocci, University of Oxford
Chair: Gabriele Marcon
4-5.45pm
Panel 3. Theoretical perspectives
· Paul Wellens, Chronocenotic Discourse Analysis: A Research Method Concerning the Social Construction of Temporal Identities
· Nikolai Markovic, Migration, Temporality and Belonging: Russian Migration to Serbia After 2022
· Franzie Schatzl, Expelled from Time: The Temporal Foundations of Exclusionary Violence
Chair: Christian De Vito
Discussants: Augusto Petter and Pacal-Cedric Winkler
6-6.30pm
Final discussion: Temporalities in/and Global History
Keynote Lecture Annual Workshop of the Vienna Global History Group 2025-2026
Giuseppe Marcocci:Time for Empire: The Intermittence of the Global in the Early Modern World
Keynote Lecture
Annual Workshop of the Vienna Global History Group (FSP Globalgeschichte)
"Temporalities in/and Global History"
University of Vienna, 8 June 2026
Abstract:
Global historians have typically considered time in terms of calendars, chronologies, or periodisation as conceived by scholars in both the past and the present. However, this approach largely neglects the widespread experience of historical actors, including the extent to which their perception of and attitudes towards the passing of time changed profoundly as a result of the marked increase in long-distance interactions from the fifteenth century onwards. The emergence of vast empires across the globe was central to this process, which they largely mediated. Taking a novel approach to the study of empires, this talk employs concepts such as timeliness and seasonality to illustrate the widely overlooked phenomenon of the intermittence of the global in the early modern world.
Global History Annual Workshop 2026/27
Call for the Annual Workshop of the Vienna Global History Group
(FSP Globalgeschichte)
Annual Global History Workshop:
Temporalities
University of Vienna, June 8th, 2026
The Vienna Global History Group dedicates the academic year 2025/26 to the topic of Temporalities. Collaborating with scholars in the across various disciplines, we aim to broaden the question of how temporality is defined and operated in academic research and in history. Questioning established perspectives on temporality can shed a new perspective on the coexistence of multiple, uneven, and intersecting temporal frameworks in global history.
To explore this broad field, the Vienna Global History Group will hold a workshop at the University of Vienna on June 8th, 2026. We call for papers addressing methodological and theoretical perspectives on temporal dimensions of Global History. This could include interrogating how time shapes social processes and addressing how historical actors conceptualize their past, present and future, as well as asking about how a global historical perspective questions standard periodization and visions of historical change.
The Vienna Global History Group welcomes contributions from the humanities, social sciences, and economics. Papers may address any world region and engage with either contemporary developments or earlier historical periods. Submissions should incorporate a global historical perspective, broadly defined. MA students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral researchers from the University of Vienna are especially encouraged to apply.
Please send your paper proposal of a maximum of 1,000 words together with a short biography to Christian De Vito (christian.de.vito@univie.ac.at) and Emma Rabe (emma.rabe@univie.ac.at) by April 5th, 2026.
We are looking forward to receiving your submission!
Global History Annual Workshop 2024/25
Global History Annual Workshop 2024/2025
(Im)Mobilities
13 June 2025
Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Seminarraum 1
The Vienna Global History Group dedicates the academic year 2024/25 to the topic of (im)mobilities. We aim to broaden our understanding of mobility, including the movement of people, goods, and ideas. We also want to reflect on the methodological concerns of how to grant immobile and disconnected people and phenomena greater attention in global history.
To explore this broad field, the Annual Workshop of the Vienna Global History Group addresses different forms of (im)mobility from a global perspective. Topics include human mobility in various forms as well as the mobility of ideas and concepts, or of objects and materials. Papers tackle (im)mobility both on an empirical and on a methodological/theoretical level and therefore contribute to an overarching conversation regarding the foundational role of mobility in global history and its limits.
The workshop is organized in cooperation with the Research Cluster State, Politics, and Governance in Historical Perspective of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies.