“Thinking About and Across Borders: Global Europe in the Twentieth Century”

Co-sponsored by European Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, and the Department of History.

This conference will place questions of twentieth-century border-making and border-crossing in Europe in a global perspective by bringing together four scholars from UW-Madison along with eight outside experts who have taken transnational approaches to issues of sovereignty, citizenship, ethnography, religion, economics, politics, human rights, and decolonization. A key aim of the conference is to open up a conversation about methodological questions that span our individual case studies: On what scales might we study the ways in which people, goods, ideas, and diseases (amongst other things) have traversed borders? Whose stories are we telling–and what historical sources can be most fruitful for telling them? And what methodological challenges are presented by our endeavors?