The GlobeColloquium is a central forum for academic discussion at the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe). It brings together researchers at all career stages – from doctoral candidates and postdoctoral fellows to senior scholars – as well as external guests and interested students to engage in dialogue on current research.

The Colloquium features both early-stage projects – such as funding proposals, theoretical frameworks, or initial empirical findings – and completed research, book presentations, and innovative methodological or conceptual approaches. Its aim is to critically reflect on humanities and social science research that adopts transregional, global, and planetary perspectives – both in process and in outcome – and to foster interdisciplinary exchange and intellectual inspiration. 

The GlobeColloquium is developed in line with the research priorities of the interdisciplinary, cross-faculty ReCentGlobe and is organized in close cooperation with partner institutions within and beyond Leipzig University. The GlobeColloquium is open to all interested parties. If you have a proposal for an event as part of the GlobeColloquium, feel free to contact us.

The sessions take place regularly during the lecture period - usually on Wednesdays from 17:15 to 18:45 in room 5.55, Nikolaistraße 6-10 (Strohsackpassage). Deviations are possible, so please note the respective event announcement.

All events are hybrid and can also be followed online:
 Zoom-Link

Veranstaltungsübersicht

9.4.2025
Radical Royalism in the Atlantic World 
Willem Klooster (Worcester)

16.4.2025
Transimperial History – A new approach to the Global
Daniel Hedinger, Nadin Heé, Matthias Middell, Stefan Rohdewald (all Leipzig)

30.4.2025
The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and Ethics
Anna Reading (London), Noam Tirosh (Beer Sheva), Zarin Aschrafi, Niklas Venema (both Leipzig)

7.5.2025
Trump and the Global Rise of Fascism
Daniel Hedinger (Leipzig)

14.5.2025
Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800–1950
Mikko Toivanen (Berlin)

21.5.2025
Securing Empire: Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century
Ozan Ozavci (Utrecht), Andrea Wiegeshoff (Marburg)

28.5.2025
Fault Lines in the Orthodox World: Geopolitics, Theology, and Diplomacy in Light of the War in Ukraine
Sebastian Rimestad, Stefan Rohdewald, Katarina Ristic (all Leipzig)

4.6.2025
Märsche der Moderne. Varianten eines globalen Phänomens*
Jürgen Dinkel, Kai Nowak, Miriam Pfordte (all Leipzig), Philipp Gassert (Mannheim)

11.6.2025
A Missing Link: The League of Nations, Interwar International Law, and the Current Triple Planetary Crises
Omer Aloni (Tel Aviv)

18.6.2025
(Post)colonial Cattle Frontiers: Capitalism, Science and Empire in Southern and Central Africa, 1890s–1970s
Samuël Coghe (Berlin)

2.7.2025
Die Ukraine in Europa: Traum und Trauma einer Nation*
Franziska Davies (Munich)

9.7.2025
Belgrad und Zemun als historischer Mobilitätsraum zwischen zwei Imperien, 1739–1878*
Nenad Stefanov, Florian Riedler (Leipzig)

*Event in German