CALM Workshop 2021
CALM – the PhD Training Collaboration in the Contemporary History of Global Europe jointly organized by the University of Cambridge and LMU Munich – held its second workshop on 20 May 2021. Due to the pandemic, fourteen PhD students (seven from each university) and five more senior scholars again met virtually to discuss whether and how contemporary European history can be re-thought and researched in the light of new perspectives from global and transnational history. For the 2nd workshop, CALM welcomed Prof. Andrew Preston (Cambridge), an historian of American foreign relations, to lead a conversation on the writing of international history.
At the heart of the workshop lay the four panel sessions set up to provide the participants with a platform to present and discuss their ongoing research. Parallel sessions with precirculated papers provided time for a lively and productive exchange on each paper.
Building on the participants' advances in their own research, the workshop further explored the importance of spatial scales, the potentials and limits of histories of connection, and the role of comparison for writing the contemporary history of global Europe. The group is looking forward to continuing to collaborate on- and off-line.