GLOBAL HISTORY SERIES 2025-2026
In recent decades, approaches that pay particular attention to historical interdependence and transfers, but also to decouplings and demarcations, have become a focal point of historical research. Such approaches respond to social and political experiences of so-called globalisation and its effects in all areas of life as well as to adaption, integration and protective reactions.
The series of lectures and panels organised by the Max Weber Foundation’s Georgia Office in cooperation with various partner institutions in the South Caucasus addresses these debates on the basis of selected topics. Presentations and roundtables will be combined with workshop discussions with the speakers, offering young academics the opportunity to discuss their projects as well as approaches to global, transnational and transregional history in depth with the speakers.
The series is funded by the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS
Partners include the American University of Armenia, The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Turpanjian Institute of Social Sciences and Yerevan State University.
- 9 October, 2025 – Tbilisi
Public Lecture: Alexander Mikaberidze: “Modernity in Arms: The Napoleonic Wars and the Transformation of the World”
- 23-24 October, 2025 – Yerevan
23 October, Public Panel: “The South Caucasus in Global Historical Conversations”. Panel Discussion with Katja Castryck, Stephan Astourian, Edita Gzoyan, and Naira Sahakyan
24 October, Closed Workshop: “Global Armenia: Entangled Histories with Europe and the Caucasus”
- 8–9 April, 2026 – Tbilisi
8 April, Public Lecture: Valeska Huber, “A World of Readers: The Project of Universal Literacy in the Twentieth Century”
9 April, Closed Workshop: “Global Publics and Global History”
- 7-8 May, 2026 – Yerevan
7 May, Public Lecture: Bryan Ward-Perkins, “How exceptional was the earliest cult of Saints in Caucasia?”
8 May, Closed Workshop: “The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity database”
- 21–22 May, 2026 – Yerevan
21 May, Public Lecture: Sebastian Conrad, “Global history today – promises and challenges”
22 May, Closed Workshop: “Global history today – from premodern to modern history”
22 May, evening: Public Lecture: Thomas Ertl, “How Beautiful is Mobility? Armenians in the Global Middle Ages”
- 25-26 June, 2026 – Tbilisi
25 June, Public Lecture: Jürgen Osterhammel, “Imperialism, Colonialism and the Spread of ‘World Languages’
26 June, Closed Workshop: “What are Processes in Global History? Theoretical Reflections and Practical Examples”
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