GlobeColloquium
Transimperial History – A new approach to the Global
A cooperation of ReCentGlobe with the Transimperial History Centre, the Department of East Asian Studies & the Historic Seminar
With Nadin Heé & Daniel Hedinger (Co-Directors Centre for Transimperial History), Matthias Middell (Director ReCentGlobe)
Transimperial history (TIH) is an emerging field situated at the interface of global history, empire studies, and postcolonial theory. By bringing different empires into one analytic field, the approach aims at reframing, decentralizing, and dynamizing empire studies. Therefore, TIH explores colonial competition, cooperation, and connectivity not as separate phenomena but as entangled processes of imperial transformation. Moreover, TIH looks not only across empires but also beyond them. In doing so, it reflects on the legacy of colonialism, thus speaking to some of the most crucial political, economic, and social challenges we are facing today.