How can historians rethink established approaches considering recurrent crises, contested global orders and the changing relationship between capital, governance, and mobility? What new perspectives emerge when capitalism, logistics and international organisations are understood as infrastructures of inequality as well as of connection? And how might new forms of (digital) data and methodological innovation transform the practice of global and transnational history?

The conference will open with a keynote lecture by Mary O’Sullivan (Geneva) on “Thinking in Chains: Revisiting the Emergence of Global Cotton Capitalism, 1784–1833”. Further talks by Roland Wenzlhuemer (Munich), Johannes Paulmann (Mainz), Isabella Löhr (Berlin) and Ines Prodöhl (Bergen) will explore new perspectives in global, economic and transnational history. The day will conclude with a round table featuring Susanna Burghartz (Basel), Amalia Ribi Forclaz (Geneva), Madeleine Herren (Basel) and Kerstin von Lingen (Vienna), followed in the evening by a greeting address from Thomas Staehelin (President, Stiftung Europainstitut Basel) and a tribute by Sacha Zala (Bern), as well as an Apéro Riche.