Rethinking Global History: The Balzan FRIAS Project in Global History

Through FRIAS fellowships and workshops at FRIAS and an edited volume, Osterhammel’s project will “rethink” the situation of global history, which remains ambiguous an academic subdiscipline after the past 30 years of expansion.

Link to Research Project

Author

Jürgen Osterhammel

Jürgen Osterhammel is Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary History at the
University of Konstanz (Germany) where he taught from 1999 to 2018, and Distinguished
Fellow (2019-25) at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (University of Freiburg).

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Balzan Prize - 2018