The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and the Global History Lab at Princeton University invite doctoral students enrolled at Greek institutions to submit applications for two global history workshops during 2020.  A small number of applicants will be selected to participate through a competitive process. Participants from Greek institutions will be joined by an equal number of Princeton doctoral students who will be selected by a similar application process.

Workshops 

We will conduct two workshops during the current academic year: one on campus at Princeton and the other at the Princeton Athens Center in Greece. The first workshop will be held in early February 2020 in Princeton, followed by a second workshop in early June 2020 in Athens. This initiative will provide an opportunity for doctoral students engaged with global history perspectives to interact with scholars from another global region and to workshop their dissertation projects with peers, as well as faculty from Princeton and other institutions. All papers and discussions will be in English. 

Brief

Global history as we know it today once aimed to upset, if not fully displace, the hegemony of national and imperial state narratives.  Now, just as we can no longer naively treat globalization as an inexorable process, we have met another point of inflection in this creative and growing field.  These workshops will emphasize the plurality of ways that historians, based in the archives, can describe global frameworks.  The concepts of regionality, transnationality, and nationality – as expressed in flows, relationships, dynamics, borders, constraints, contact and exchange – will all come under scrutiny. 

Organizing Committee

Jeremy Adelman, History and Global History Lab, Princeton University 

Molly Greene, History and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University

Dates

The first workshop will be held on the Princeton campus, Friday-Saturday, February 14-15, 2020. Accepted applicants must commit to a week-long stay at Princeton (arrival Sunday, February 9 - departure Sunday, February 16, 2020) attending campus activities, doing research, and meeting informally with Princeton faculty and graduate students. The second workshop will be held in Athens, Tuesday-Wednesday, June 9-10, 2020.  Accepted applicants must commit to participating in both workshops.

Selection Criteria

The organizing committee will consider proposals of historical projects that span the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and place their research in a wider regional or global context. Applicants should be at least at the stage of advanced dissertation proposal and have completed a good part of their archival research. Students writing dissertation chapters are especially welcome to apply.

Logistics

Accepted participants will be given specific instructions for travel and accommodation at Princeton. Also, they will be informed about workshop format, length of presentations, and deadlines for submitting their papers in advance of the workshops. Papers will be pre-circulated to all participants.

Funding

Princeton workshop: Seven nights double occupancy accommodation will be provided to participants travelling from Greece to Princeton. Economy class (roundtrip, fixed dates) flights will be covered from Greece to Princeton and back.

Athens workshop: Participants who are not based in Athens and have no accommodation available to them in the city, may be eligible for reimbursement (not to exceed $150/person) for local travel and housing in Athens.