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Inauguration of the Balzan-FRIAS Programme / Book Launch - Jürgen Osterhammel

Mini-Symposium "Global history and social history - a contradiction?"
When Feb 13, 2020
from 05:00 PM to 08:00 PM
Where FRIAS, Albertstr. 19, Seminar room
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Attendees universitätsoffen / open to university members
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Inauguration of the Balzan-FRIAS Programme

 

Mini-Symposium:Global history and social history - a contradiction?

Book cover - Osterhammel On the occasion of the publication of The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire (Princeton University Press), the editors - Christof Dejung, David Motadel, and Jürgen Osterhammel, discuss about the challenges and chances of social history in view of a "global turn" in international history. 

At the same time, the mini-symposium celebrates the opening of the Balzan-FRIAS Project in Global History, which is funded by the International Balzan Prize Foundation and will be located at FRIAS for a period of three years. 

 

Programm

17:00-17:05  BERND KORTMANN (FRIAS): Welcome
17:05-17:15  JÜRGEN OSTERHAMMEL (FRIAS): Introduction - Global History in the Balzan-FRIAS project
17:15-17:30 CHRISTOF DEJUNG (Bern): What is "global social history"?
17:30-17:45 DAVID MOTADEL (London): The new book - "The Global Bourgeoisie" (Princeton University Press 2019)
17:45-17:55 Break
17:55-18:30

Panel: Do "national" case studies "in a global perspective" need to be written differently? 

with

STEFANIE GÄNGER (Heidelberg)

SIMON WOLFGANG FUCHS (FRIAS)

CHRISTOF DEJUNG, DAVID MOTADEL, JÜRGEN OSTERHAMMEL

18:30-19:00 Plenary discussion
ab 19:00 Reception (Apéro riche) in the FRIAS-Lounge


Balzan-Mini-Symposium Poster