MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES | MOBILITIES

Angelika Epple
Professor of History, Bielefeld University

Over the last decade we have seen a proliferation of studies by distinguished historians discussing global processes by means of extensive overarching syntheses. By contrast, Microhistories seem to have had their day. While Microhistory and global history are often considered as opposites, this paper argues instead that both approaches share a broad common ground because both approaches overcome methodological nationalism by dissolving the history of fixed and enclosed units into the history of relations. This is the reason why mobility studies came to the fore. Borrowing basic theoretical tools from the field of gender history, Epple argues that in contrast to a history of relations and traditional studies of migration, global microhistory and mobility studies can become a history of 'relationing' thus overcoming the respective shortcomings of both micro- and global history.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2014  |  6 P.M.
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