in Collaboration with the Research Cluster State, Politics, and Governance in Historical Perspective of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies
Annual Global History Workshop:(Im)Mobilities University of Vienna, 13 June 2025
The Vienna Global History Group dedicates the academic year 2024/25 to the topic of (im)mobilities. Collaborating with scholars in the field of migration studies at the University of Vienna, 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 Vienna Global History Group will hold a workshop at the University of Vienna on 13 June 2025. We call for papers addressing different forms of (im)mobilities from a global perspective. Topics can include human mobility in various forms, as well as the mobility of ideas and concepts, or of objects and materials. We are particularly interested in papers that tackle (im)mobility both on an empirical and on a methodological/theoretical level and can therefore contribute to an overarching conversation regarding the foundational role of mobility in global history and its limits.
The Vienna Global History Group welcomes contributions from the humanities as well as from the social sciences and economics. Papers can address any world region and deal with current trends or earlier periods. They will feature a global historical approach, however defined. MA students, PhD students and postdoc researchers from the University of Vienna are especially encouraged to apply. The workshop is organized together with the Research Cluster State, Politics, and Governance in Historical Perspective of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies.
Please send your paper proposal of a maximum of 1,000 words together with a short biography to Valeska Huber (valeska.huber@univie.ac.at) by 31 March 2025.
We are looking forward to receiving your submission!
Christian De Vito and Valeska Huber