Report: PhD Students' Workshop 'Writing Global History', January 16th 2020

This one-day workshop was designed as an open space for 13 PhD-students identifying them-selves with, linked to, or interested in global history – to ponder about the opportunities and challenges of 'writing global history' in practice.

In the morning session, an interesting bibliography of previously selected favorite readings of 'global history' kicked off the conversation before discussing two of the newer texts in more detail. In the afternoon, five of the doctoral students gave insight into their own research. All participants engaged enthusiastically in debating the role of‘global history' in their personal work, the uses of it as a method, the particular struggles, and the future-oriented question of what to gain or lose by labelling something as 'global history'.

The day closed with a cooperatively held research colloquium chaired by Prof. Roland Wenzlhuemer and Prof. Ferdinand Kramer at the Institute for Bavarian History, where global met regional history, with researchers and students from both fields profiting from each other's insights and experience.

The success of this workshop withsuch inspiring discussions among like-minded young scholars is encouraging and gives reason to plan similar events in the future.

Participants [standing] Luise Fast, Larissa Wagner, Stefan Geissler, Anna Sophia Nübling, Harriet Mercer, Sean Phillips, Kathleen Siemermann, Kira Schmidt, Pai-Li Liu, Christoph Streb; [sitting] Daniela Egger, Susanne Quitmann, Fabian Zimmer