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Michael Goebel
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Historian at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Global urban history, histories of capitalism.
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A corrected version of our colloquium program @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , with an additional talk by Sven Beckert on Nov 5: Capitalism: A Global History
October 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"...scheint es angebracht, der Dämonisierung des Nationsbegriffs entgegenzuwirken... Wer Nationen untersuchen will, essentialisiert sie nicht automatisch". Weiterer Debattenbeitrag zur russländischen Imperiengeschichte, u.a. von meinem Kollegen Robert Kindler
September 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Nov 3: Romain Tiquet (Centre Marc Bloch) Thinking Through Cases: A Political and Social History of West Africa Through Psychiatric Records Nov 17: Matt Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment of Chinese Labourers Nov 24: Dora Vargha (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Communist M*A*S*H: The Making of Socialist International in a North Korean Field Hospital Dec 1: Denis Cogneau (Paris School of Economics) joint event with the Frankreich-Zentrum Empire on the Cheap: An Economic History of French Colonialism, 1830–1962 Dec 8: Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd (Stockholm University) A History of the Moral Economy: Community, Institutions, and Social Norm Jan 12: Martin Hamre (Freie Universität Berlin) Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Interna-tionalism in the 1930s Jan 19: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam) The Mutating Menace: The Global Politics of Narcotics Trafficking in Germany, 1880 to the Present Feb 3: Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University) A Global History of Socialist Rijeka: How a Port Con-nected Yugoslavia to the World Feb 9: Laetitia Lenel (Universität Duisburg-Essen) Decline: On the Circulation of Narratives of Decline in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Politics
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Die seltsame Reaktion darauf zeigt genau diese Baufehler: Nationalisten (hier wahlweise Miller/Davies) sind immer die Anderen, irgendein politischer Gegner. Erinnert mich an das hier: youtu.be/tj9Zw5fN3rE?...
September 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Bei einem Abendessen im Mai 2022 in Genf habe ich ihn auf Putins Krieg befragt und er hat sich rausgewunden, was ich damals noch schwer zu deuten fand (erzwungener Konformismus?). @efdavies.bsky.social sucht in ihrem ursprünglichen Artikel vielmehr nach Baufehlern der New Imperial History
September 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Is there something off with the definition of urban population in Ireland?
September 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Poster in Grand-Lancy, Genf, heute
May 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Looking forward to talking about why I think nationalism has long been one of the most formidable forces in global history, later today at Dartmouth
Contagion, Inevitability, and Teleology: Imperial Disintegration and Nation-State Formation in Global History. Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin.
April 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Delighted to announce the program of our Global History Colloquium @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, which I co-convene with Isabella Löhr and Sebastian Conrad this summer. All welcome.
Catherine Davies, Bernard Keo, Adam Mestyan, Lauren Stokes, Stefanie Gänger, Dominique Reill, Heather Jones, Jennifer Altehenger, Sarah Bellows-Blakely, Abosede George, Quinn Slobodian
March 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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On Monday, Nikolaus Wachsmann @bbkhistorical.bsky.social will speak in our colloquium on the history of the Auschwitz death camp. As always, we will start at 4.15pm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social : t.ly/3Wxnh
December 6, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Morgen in unserer Ringvorlesung des Frankreich-Zentrums: Der allseits geschätzte @jbprestel.bsky.social zum palästinensich-israelischen Konflikt in der BRD und Frankreich, 1967-69: shorturl.at/9bA5A Kann mir keinen besseren Redner zu diesem Thema vorstellen.
Joseph Prestel, Neu-Positionierungen: Stellungnahmen linker Studentengruppen zum palästinensisch-israelischen Konflikt in der Bundesrepublik und Frankreich, 1967-69
November 18, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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So?
November 11, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Somber morning in Berlin (Symbolbild)
November 6, 2024 at 7:35 AM
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"Enigmatic" indeed: How does hyphenating two antonyms (Ginzburg is fond of this technique too) solve micro-history's issues with representativeness and generalization? (from Francesca Trivellato, "Is there a Future for Italian Microhistory in the Age of Global History?")
nspired by anthropological rather than sociological models, Italian microhistorians were drawn to idiosyncratic figures and phenomena rather than to ordinary people and consistent patterns. In an often quoted aphorism that remains as captivating as it is enigmatic, Grendi spoke of the need to focus on “the exceptional normal,” that is, on 3 Statements by Levi (1991, 91, 111), Ginzburg (1993, 34), Grendi (1994, 540), and Revel (1996a, 16) denying the existence of a microhistorical canon are confirmed by the plurality of themes and approaches explored by these very scholars and those whom they inspired. 4 Under Ginzburg and Levi’s editorship, twenty-three titles were published in the series “Microstorie,” including both original work by Italian scholars and translations of studies by foreign historians such as Natalie Zemon Davis and E.P. Thompson. extra-ordinary documents that – if subjected to the proper micro-analytical reading – could nonetheless illuminate broad trends.5 The emphasis here, as in Ginzburg’s notion of spie, or “clues” in English (1986), is on the encounter with primary sources that at first sight contain details that are incongruent with standard narratives. From an apparently exceptional document, a historian can extrapolate typical and relevant indicators, not just exceptional stories. Thus, the eccentric sixteenth-century Friulian miller Domenico Scandella, better known by his nickname, Menocchio, became the vehicle through which Ginzburg (1976) repudiated the rigid separation between elite and popular culture,
November 5, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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Ultimately it all comes down to Waukesha County
Ultimately it all comes down to Waukesha County
November 5, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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Unser Programm zur Ringvorlesung "Momenta der Stellungnahme" am Frankreich-Zentrum der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Nächste Woche geht's los. Freuen uns auf breites Publikum.
Ulrike Schneider Michael Goebel Avner Ofrath Joseph Prestel Miriam Hartlapp Anne Tomiche Fabien Théofilakis Simon Teune Quentin Deluermoz Anna Karla Camille Bloomfield Laude Ngadi Maissa Elisabeth Fritz Martina Thiele Thomas Wieder Dirk Fuhrig
October 14, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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I'm really glad to relaunch the Global History Colloquium with my colleague Sebastian Conrad @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Have a look at our exciting program below and feel free to come along Mondays 4-6pm.
Global History Colloquium Convened by Sebastian Conrad and Michael Goebel Winder 2024-25 Mondays 4-6pm Koserstr. 20 Nov 11 Iza Ding Northwestern University Nov 25 Nell Irvin Painter Princeton University Dec 9 Nikolaus Wachsmann Birkbeck College Jan 7 Quentin Deluermoz Université Paris Cité Jan 13 Elise Franklin University of Louisville Jan 30 Onur Edur Humboldt Feb 3 Sherene Seikaly University of California Santa Barbara
September 23, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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Last day in the archives
April 3, 2024 at 7:34 PM