(in Polish) Globalizing the Local: Unexpected Global Connections between Eastern Europe and the World 2900-SZL23-GLU

Global history is one of the fastest growing disciplines in world historiography. It focuses not so much on the macro-historical approach which captures history in grand narratives, but on the search for non-obvious connections and comparisons between people, ideas and institutions in the changing world. The history of Eastern Europe is often being analyzed from a national perspective, while its relationship with the rest of the world is relegated to a secondary position. The summer school ‘Globalizing the Local: Unexpected Global Connections between Eastern Europe and the World’ aims at bringing the unexpected forwards by researching the connections between the local and the global, providing students with informative lectures and methodological tools to enrich their knowledge and their research skills. Over the course of one week, the summer school will provide an introduction to the field of global history. Students will have the opportunity to participate in lectures delivered by international and national scholars specializing in global history, especially but not exclusively on Eastern Europe and its international connections in historical perspective. The summer school will introduce MA students and third year BA students to the basic assumptions and methodological concepts of global history, and show areas of dispute within this field as well as prospects of further development. During the summer schools, students will learn how to make use of global history methodology to their own work. This will be implemented by developing enriching student’s topics with comparative analysis on a global scale, or searching for connections between the research objects that students explore and phenomena from more or less distant areas. The workshop will result in the creation of research projects that will be presented and discussed during joint sessions with fellows, students and faculty that will take place after the course.

We invite both MA students and third year BA students who wish to make use of Global history in their research to apply to the summer school. We welcome students interested in the Early Modern and Modern history of Poland, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The faculty will consist of both lecturers of the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw and specialists from other renowned European universities. School is free. The main language of instruction will be English. The students can expect to receive 4 ETCS for participation and 2 ETCS for their final paper.