CYCLE: ESCALA I CORDA: SCIENCE, LOCATION AND HISTORY

Seminar given by Glenda Sluga (The University of Sidney / European University Institute)

Cycle organised by Josep Simon (IILP)

Seminar cycle: Enric Novella (IILP)

ONLINE BROADCAST: http://links.uv.es/3Ho6jcy

Politics have always been involved in questions of historical scale. Sometimes the politics are more obvious—at no time more so than a century ago, when scientific internationalism encouraged an emphasis on global intellectual communities and the universal foundations and reach of scientific ideas. In this paper I will survey the relatively long history of global and international-scale history. In an era when even Europe seems radical as a spatial point of interrogation (whether because you think it should be provincialized, or just politically cauterized), questions of scale have returned as an urgent matter.

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SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History at the University of Sydney and at the European University Institute. She has a long career in the study of the political and identity construction of the nation and internationalism. Her work delves into the intersections, interactions and interferences of the national, international and transnational. Her publications include a special forum on the transnational history of international organisations in the Journal of Global History (2011), the book Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (UPenn,2013) or the volum published Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge, 2017). More information https://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/HistoryAndCivilization/People/Professors/Sluga