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Workshop: Discussing Current Research in Global History

Workshop participants

Workshop participants

On 14 October, a hybrid workshop for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers took place at the Institute for European Global Studies. It offered an engaging platform for discussing research projects in Global History. In three practical, text-based discussions, the participants reflected the challenges and prospects of research projects and writing processes.

In the first part of the workshop, participants discussed the introduction to Maya Okuda's (University of Heidelberg) dissertation on intellectual cooperation between Japan and the League of Nations in the 1920s and 1930s. A chapter in Sarah Hagmann's (Institute for European Global Studies, Basel) dissertation on the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau and Meyer Birman in Harbin and Shanghai around World War II was in the focus of the second part of the workshop. The event concluded with a discussion on Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş’ (GHI Washington) recent article on the emergence of Airport Transit Zones in the 20th century. The highly stimulating academic discussions were accompanied by a pleasant atmosphere, with new acquaintances being forged as well as very enjoyable reunions.