Greetings Amy Jamison,New items have been posted matching your subscriptions. Table of Contents H-Africa: New posted content Journal of Festive Studies Issue 8 Call for Papers H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Africa: 9 September - 16 September [Announcement] Call for papers: #afrocyberactivism: knowledge production, self-narrations and decolonial strategies in the digital era in France and Spain (Sept 22-25, 2025, U of Constance) [Announcement] Africa-Asia 3 CfP, Join us in Dakar! (Only two more weeks to submit) [Announcement] Media Report: Toyin Falola to Inaugurate New Field Called African Ancestral Studies (AAS) REMINDER: CfP Eighth European Congress on Universal and Global History Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions [Announcement] H-Africa: New posted content Journal of Festive Studies Issue 8 Call for Papers Emily Joan Elliott (she/hers) In addition to our guest-edited section described below, we always welcome submissions on a rolling basis, with no deadline for consideration. Please do think of us if your research or professional background touches on festive practices! You can also view this announcement as a PDF. International borders affect you every day. They play a role in determining whether you are a birthright citizen or an unauthorized migrant. They showcase a nation’s ability or inability to guarantee your wellbeing. They factor into immigration, asylum, and national security debates. Media and political analysts often portray borders as places where pathos, illegality, and poverty thrive innately. Yet, they are also places where ordinary citizens make historical claims, or defend, criticize, and even parody immigration and security policy. While many of those border enactments are rightly serious or even melancholy in tone, some recurring rituals like border festivals foreground whimsical or celebratory narratives. This issue seeks submissions that critically engage with border festivals—recurring ritual enactments performed at, across, or in close proximity to an international boundary line that foster cross-border communication, create opportunities for practical governance, or occasion the memorialization of shared histories. It also provides a platform for scholarly and creative submissions that critically engage how borders and boundaries can be invoked metaphorically through music, literature, performance art, and/or the built environment. Situated at the crossroads of de-centering the state and embracing the everyday-ness of borders, geographer Chris Rumford’s appeal to “vernacularize” border studies using concepts such as “borderwork” and “seeing like a border” provides an excellent starting point for this invitation to take the study of festive borders and boundaries seriously. His concept of “borderwork” emphasizes “bottom-up” activity and specifically the everyday meaning-making labor, or the bordering practices, of citizens and non-citizens (Rumford 2006, 2008, and 2013). “Seeing like a border” is premised on the idea that borders should be understood as the business of everyone, not just the business of the state. While considerations of state practices are still (and should remain) vital to the study of border festivals, it is safe to say that dominant, static, top-down approaches are incomplete. Reflecting on anthropological theories that link festive practices to “expected” moments of life transitions (Van Gennep 1960; Turner 1987), David Picard draws attention to the ways in which festivals can also play a role in mediating unanticipated crises such as “the shock of migration” and “environmental disaster”—two global challenges that shape the contemporary study of borders. Indeed, existing studies of border festivals, traditions, commemorations, and enactments elaborate this point on a much larger scale. Methodologically diverse and ranging from festival traditions in the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo) that emphasize the “centrality of the margins” (Nugent 2019), to the meticulously choreographed Wagah ceremony that transpires at the India/Pakistan border (Menon 2013), to cultural performances that delineate the Kashmir conflict (Aggarwal 2004), to the long-standing celebration of George Washington’s Birthday on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border (Peña 2020), to the religiously-inflected and festive revival of historical social groupings between China, Mongolia, and Russia (Billé and Humphrey 2021)—they have underlined how a range of actors make national and ethnic affiliation identity claims public, stage historical memory, recover from natural disasters, and even shape practical governance through stylized acts of crossing and gathering. Moreover, borders may also be critically invoked in the design and production of “borderless” or “borderlands” celebrations (e.g., No Border Fest, Borderland Music Festival). What stands out across these theorizations (and what makes them the key to study of border festivals) is their inbuilt foundation in performance theory and especially performativity. This special issue invites us to think creatively about the idea that borders are always in the making both at and beyond international boundary lines. In both contexts, they are actualized festively through embodiment and stylized rituals that ffect change in the social world. As the first of its kind, this issue aims to create a generative space for the future study of border festivals. We are looking for a variety of submissions ranging from previously unpublished methodological reflections, artist statements, illustrations, documentaries and interactive media to research reports and evidence-based papers that engage festive border commemorations of any kind. Some possible themes for exploration include: conceptualizing borders and boundaries as festive intangible heritage and cultural memory across borderlands organization, logistics, and finance cross-border cooperation and practical governance global challenges: climate change, mass displacement, public health participation, reception, conflict, and political efficacy festive landscapes and built environments embodiment, choreography, and evolving repertoires pleasure through collaboration In line with the interdisciplinary nature of the Journal of Festive Studies, we welcome submissions of original research and analysis rooted in a variety of fields including (but not limited to): social and cultural history, anthropology, archaeology, cultural geography, architecture, technology, musicology, museum studies, literary studies and performance studies. In addition to traditional academic essays, we invite short essays and creative contributions that incorporate digital media such as timelines and maps, photographic essays, digital exhibitions, interactive media, documentaries, illustrations, creative audio, and interviews that engage with festivity. We invite you to submit an abstract and short bio by January 15, 2025. The submission deadline for completed article manuscripts is August 1, 2025. Please make sure to consult the journal submission guidelines. If you have any further questions, please contact Elaine A. Peña at penae@wustl.edu. H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, the publisher of the Journal of Festive Studies, is committed to open access. All H-Net content, including journals, monographs, and reviews, are freely available to both authors and readers. There are no charges to submit or publish in the Journal of Festive Studies.   References Aggarwal, Ravina. Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India. Durham: Duke UP, 2004. Billé, Franck and Caroline Humphrey. On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2021. Menon, Jisha. Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. Nugent, Paul. Boundaries, Communities, and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2019. Peña. Elaine A. ¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. Picard, David. 2016. “The Festive Frame: Festivals as Mediators for Social Change.” Ethnos 81, no. 4 (2015): 600-616. Rumford, Chris. “Towards a Vernacularized Border Studies: The Case of Citizen Borderwork.” Journal of Borderlands Studies 28, no. 2 (2013): 169-180. Salter, Mark B. “Places Everyone: Performativity and Border Studies.” Political Geography 30, no. 2 (2011): 66-67. Turner, Victor. “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites of Passage.” In Betwixt and Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation, edited by Louise Carus Mahdi, Steven Foster & Meredith Little. pp. 5–22. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1987. Van Gennep, Arnold. The Rites of Passage. Chicago, IL: University Chicago Press, 1960. Read more or reply Repost Call for papers: #afrocyberactivism: knowledge production, self-narrations and decolonial strategies in the digital era in France and Spain (Sept 22-25, 2025, U of Constance) [Announcement] Julia Borst A continuación encontrará la versión española. #afrocyberactivismes: production des savoirs, narrations de soi et stratégies décoloniales à l’ère du digital en France et en Espagne 39. Romanistiktag Universität Konstanz | 22.–25. September 2025 Dans cette section, nous nous penchons sur l’émergence du cyberactivisme auprès des collectifs africains et afrodescendants en France et en Espagne. Les deux pays partent de contextes différents, notamment en termes de politique mémorielle par rapport à la colonisation en Afrique d’une part et eu égard à la tradition des mouvements noirs sur le sol européen d’autre part – pensons, p.ex., à la Négritude au début du XXe siècle ou au vif débat autour de l’afropéanité en France. Pour autant, nous assistons, tant en France qu’en Espagne, au boom sans précédent d’une production littéraire et activiste afro au cours des dernières années, dû en partie à une visibilité propice au sein des espaces culturels aussi bien physiques que virtuels, sous la coordination des communautés afrodescendantes et africaines menant de front un activisme à l’intersection, entre autres, de l’antiracisme, du panafricanisme et de l’afroféminisme. De même, consécutivement nous observons l’émergence de nouvelles figures africaines, afrodescendantes et afroeuropéennes assumant leurs identités transversales, politisant ainsi via la littérature, l’art, le digital, etc., les problématiques qui les traversent. C’est le cas, entres autres, de Léonora Miano, Mame-Fatou Niang, Aïssa Maïga, Franklin Nyamsi, Kiyémis et Isabelle Boni-Claverie en France et de Desirée Bela-Lobedde, Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio, Asaari Bibang, Lamine Thior, Thimbo Samb, Antoinette Torres Soler et Jeffrey Abé Pans en Espagne.  Au-delà des outils traditionnels comme le livre, la presse « classique » ou la télé, les productions qui découlent de l’#afrocyberactivisme puisent aux sources de plusieurs canaux de diffusion parmi lesquels principalement les plateformes numériques, mettant en lumière des épistémologies naguère méconnues. Grâce à l’émergence du « web 2.0 », les consommateur.ices deviennent elleux-aussi des producteur.rices de contenu, participant à la création, production et circulation des savoirs en ligne. En effet, la dimension participative et interactive qu’offre le cybermonde permet aux « groupes minorés » de faire émerger leurs savoirs, discours et modèles culturels grâce à une praxis trop souvent ignorée dans les sphères mainstream. À contre-courant du récit officiel, les différent.e.s acteur.rices proposent des auto-narrations sous des formes aussi bien artistiques, politiques que littéraires. Celles-ci se caractérisent le plus souvent par de mécanismes d’auto-légitimation, notamment la diffusion de grilles de lecture alternatives relevant de façons « autres » de produire de la connaissance et même de faire science à partir d’outils endogènes, affranchis de l’hégémonie de tutelles institutionnelles. On note par conséquent une nouvelle dynamique dans les espaces numériques qui se manifeste par l’émergence exponentielle de blogs/vlogs (p.ex. Desirée Bela, Mrs Roots), de magazines en ligne (Negrxs Magazine, Les pulpeuses magazine), de podcasts (No hay negros en el Tibet, Afrotopiques), de profils et de contenus d’activistes sur différentes plateformes digitales comme YouTube, Facebook, TikTok et Instagram. L’intérêt scientifique de notre section réside précisément dans l’enjeu épistémique qu’elle soulève : placer les collectifs afroeuropéens au cœur de la réflexion en faisant du cyberespace un cadre d’agentivité. En s’inscrivant dans l’innovation de la recherche académique, nous mettons en lumière les débats autour des nouvelles subjectivités concernant l’afro(euro)péanité, un lieu de négociation qui ravive les tensions à rebours des héritages en vigueur du « passé colonial ». Suivant une perspective décoloniale, la section souhaite accueillir des propositions portant sur des voix « rebelles », dissonantes ou discordantes, en ligne, qui sont symboles d’une résistance, à même de faire émerger des auto-récits afroeuropéens au cœur du cyberactivisme. Nous nous intéresserons notamment à la création de nouvelles stratégies (auto)narratives par lesquelles les acteurs.trices rendent compte de leurs expériences et récits. Par conséquent, la section entend étudier les discours et épistémologies, les subjectivités et corporalités, les routes et réseaux, les imaginaires et esthétiques, les positionnalités et connectivités, etc. qui se manifestent dans les articulations littéraires, artistiques, culturelles, activistes dans l’espace digital et ses intersections avec le monde non-numérique. Les propositions (en français ou en espagnol) exploreront le phénomène actuel de l’#afrocyberactivisme en France et en Espagne du point de vue épistémique, en discutant des possibilités et des défis de l’espace digital en tant que moyen de décolonisation des savoirs tout en tenant compte des biais algorithmiques. De même, elles se consacreront à de cas concrets –en se focalisant sur un espace culturel ou en adoptant un point de vue comparatif– pour étudier comment ces acteur.rices se racontent elleux-mêmes afin d’explorer leurs stratégies poétiques et esthétiques. Il s’agira de se questionner sur les manières dont les corps racialisés sont racontés, rendus visibles et décolonisés sur les plateformes digitales à travers une « auto-déstéréotypisation » du sujet racialisé. Les participant.e.s analyseront les manières alternatives dont les expériences des personnes africaines, afrodescendantes et afroeuropéennes sont articulées en marge ou hors des filtres du marché littéraire traditionnel en étudiant les nouveaux espaces culturels digitaux et les récits non hégémoniques qui y circulent, ainsi que les poétiques alternatives et les intertextes afro qui sont utilisés pour traduire les imaginaires des communautés marginalisées par le prisme eurocentrique. Des propositions portant sur des questions similaires en Afrique, dans les Caraïbes et les Amériques francophones et hispanophones ainsi que la circulation transnationale des savoirs sont également les bienvenues. Sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité, les propositions de communication pourront prendre en compte les axes de réflexion indicatifs suivants : Cyberactivisme, co-productions, décolonisation et désacadémisation des savoirs Récits contre-hégémoniques et auto-narrations via les plateformes digitales (entre autres, les retentissements des épistèmes antiracistes, panafricanistes, afroféministes etc.) Stratégies de résistance, esthétiques subversives et justice épistémique articulées aux textes littéraires, artistiques, culturels, activistes en ligne Afrocyberidentités : afroespagnolité, afrofrancité, afropéanité et récits de soi  Hashtag viral, emoticones, buzz, corps-politique, collectifs afro et cybermétadiscours dans les régions respectives Littérarisation de l’espace numérique et nouvelles poétiques et stratégies de narration de soi Contact : afroeuropecyberspace@uni-bremen.de Cette section est organisée dans le cadre du projet ERC Starting Grant “Afroeurope and Cyberspace : Imaginations of Diasporic Communities, Digital Agency and Poetic Strategies – Unravelling the Textures” (AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE, 101110473), PI : Julia Borst. #afrocyberactivismos: producción de saberes, auto-narraciones y estrategias decoloniales en la era digital en Francia y España En esta sección, examinaremos la emergencia del ciberactivismo de colectivos africanos y afrodescendientes en Francia y España. Ambos países subyacen contextos diferentes, sobre todo en cuanto a las políticas de memoria en relación con la colonización en África, por un lado, y la tradición de movimientos negros en territorio europeo, por otro – piénsese, por ejemplo, en la Négritude de principios del siglo XX o en el vivo debate sobre la afropeanidad en Francia. Sin embargo, tanto en Francia como en España, en los últimos años hemos presenciado un auge sin precedentes de la producción literaria y activista afro, en parte debido a una visibilidad favorable en espacios culturales tanto físicos como virtuales, bajo la coordinación de comunidades afrodescendientes y africanas comprometidas con un activismo en la intersección del antirracismo, panafricanismo y afrofeminismo, entre otros. También estamos asistiendo la aparición de nuevas figuras africanas, afrodescendientes y afroeuropeas, que abrazan sus identidades transversales, politizando las cuestiones que les afectan a través de la literatura, el arte, los medios digitales, etc. Entre ellas se encuentran Léonora Miano, Mame-Fatou Niang, Aïssa Maïga, Franklin Nyamsi, Kiyémis e Isabelle Boni-Claverie en Francia y Desirée Bela-Lobedde, Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio, Asaari Bibang, Lamine Thior, Thimbo Samb, Antoinette Torres Soler y Jeffrey Abé Pans en España. Además de los canales mediales tradicionales como libros, la prensa ‘clásica’ y la televisión, las producciones resultantes del #afrociberactivismo se inspiran en fuentes de varios canales de distribución, entre los que destacan las plataformas digitales, sacando a la luz epistemologías hasta ahora poco conocidas. Gracias a la aparición de la ‘web 2.0’, lxs consumidorxs también se han convertido en productorxs de contenido, participando en la creación, producción y circulación de saberes en línea. De hecho, la dimensión participativa e interactiva que ofrece el cibermundo permite a los ‘grupos minorizados’ sacar a la luz sus conocimientos, discursos y modelos culturales mediante una praxis que con demasiada frecuencia se ignora en las esferas del mainstream. A contracorriente de la narrativa oficial, lxs diferentes actorxs proponen auto-narrativas artísticas, políticas e incluso literarias. Se plasman en forma de mecanismos de autolegitimación, en particular, la difusión de miradas alternativas, basadas en ‘otras’ formas de producir conocimiento e incluso de hacer ciencia con herramientas endógenas, liberadas de la hegemonía de los guardianes institucionales. Como resultado, vivimos una nueva dinámica en los espacios digitales con la aparición exponencial de blogs/vlogs (por ejemplo, Desirée Bela, Mrs Roots), revistas en línea (Negrxs Magazine, Les pulpeuses magazine), podcasts (No hay negros en el Tibet, Afrotopiques) y perfiles y contenidos activistas en diversas plataformas digitales como YouTube, Facebook, TikTok e Instagram. El interés científico de nuestra sección reside precisamente en la cuestión epistémica que plantea situar a los colectivos afroeuropeos en el centro de la reflexión, haciendo del ciberespacio un marco de agencia. Inscribiéndonos en la innovación de la investigación académica, destacamos los debates en torno a las nuevas subjetividades relativas a la afro(euro)peanidad, un lugar de negociación que reaviva las tensiones frente a los legados imperantes del ‘pasado colonial’. Desde una perspectiva decolonial, la sección desea acoger propuestas que aborden las voces ‘rebeldes’ en línea, disonantes o discordantes, que son símbolos de resistencia y capaces de hacer emerger autonarrativas afroeuropeas en el seno del ciberactivismo. En particular, nos interesa la creación de nuevas estrategias (auto)narrativas a través de las cuales lxs actorxs dan cuenta de sus experiencias y narrativas. En consecuencia, la sección pretende estudiar los discursos y epistemologías, subjetividades y corporalidades, rutas y redes, imaginarios y estéticas, posicionalidades y conectividades, etc., que se manifiestan en las articulaciones literarias, artísticas, culturales y activistas en el espacio digital y sus intersecciones con el mundo no digital. Las ponencias (en francés o en español) explorarán el fenómeno actual del #afrociberactivismo en Francia y España desde un punto de vista epistémico, discutiendo las posibilidades y desafíos del espacio digital como medio para descolonizar el conocimiento, teniendo en cuenta los sesgos algorítmicos. También se analizarán casos concretos –centrándose en un espacio cultural o adoptando una perspectiva comparativa– para estudiar cómo estxs actorxs se narran a si mismxs con el fin de explorar sus estrategias poéticas y estéticas. El objetivo será examinar las formas en que los cuerpos racializados son narrados, visibilizados y descolonizados en las plataformas digitales a través de una ‘auto-destereotipación’ del sujeto racializado. Lxs participantes explorarán los modos alternativos en los que las experiencias de personas africanas, afrodescendientes y afroeuropeas se articulan en los márgenes o fuera de los filtros del mercado literario tradicional, estudiando los nuevos espacios culturales digitales y las narrativas no hegemónicas que circulan en ellos, así como las poéticas alternativas y los intertextos afro que se utilizan para traducir los imaginarios de las comunidades marginadas por el prisma eurocéntrico. También son bienvenidas las propuestas que aborden cuestiones similares en África, el Caribe y las Américas francófonos e hispanohablantes, así como la circulación transnacional del conocimiento. Sin pretender ser exhaustivas, las propuestas de ponencias pueden tener en cuenta las siguientes líneas indicativas: Ciberactivismo, coproducciones, descolonización y desacademización del conocimiento Narrativas contrahegemónicas y autonarrativas a través de plataformas digitales (entre otros, el impacto de epistemes antirracistas, panafricanistas, afrofeministas, etc.) Estrategias de resistencia, estética subversiva y justicia epistémica articuladas en textos literarios, artísticos, culturales y activistas en línea Afrociberidentidades: afroespañolidad, afrofrancidad, afropeanidad y auto-narrativas  Hashtags virales, emoticones, buzz, política del cuerpo, colectivos afro y cibermetadiscurso en las respectivas regiones Literarización del espacio digital y nuevas poéticas y estrategias de autonarración Contacto: afroeuropecyberspace@uni-bremen.de Está sección está organizada como parte del proyecto ERC Starting Grant “Afroeurope and Cyberspace : Imaginations of Diasporic Communities, Digital Agency and Poetic Strategies – Unravelling the Textures” (AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE, 101110473), PI : Julia Borst. Contact Information Organizers: Odome Angone (U Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar) Julia Borst (U Bremen) Merveilles Mouloungui (U Bremen) Contact Email afroeuropecyberspace@uni-bremen.de URL https://www.romanistiktag.de/xxxix-romanistiktag/sektionen/sektion-2/ Read more or reply Repost Back to top Africa-Asia 3 CfP, Join us in Dakar! (Only two more weeks to submit) [Announcement] M.C. van den Haak Announcement Type Call for Papers Location Senegal ConFest dates: 11 - 14 June 2025Location: Dakar, SenegalWebsites: English, Français, PortugaisSubmission deadline proposals: 1 October 2024 (only two weeks left!)Building on the multiple encounters, interactions and dialogues initiated at the first Africa-Asia conference (Accra, Ghana, 2015) and the second Africa-Asia Conference (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2018), this third edition of the ‘Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge’ event seeks to deepen the explorations of new realities and long histories connecting Africa and Asia.The collaborative mission of Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD, Dakar, Senegal), Collective Africa-Southeast Asia Platform (CASAP, Bangkok, Thailand) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, Leiden, The Netherlands) aims to stimulate inquiry into the rich resources offered by the city of Dakar and its surroundings. In this way, the city itself enables the materialisation of an experiential Conference-Festival (ConFest) that celebrates diversity within academia, but that also extends beyond academia into civil society and the arts.Take this opportunity to engage with other participants thinking both comparatively and holistically about the challenges and possibilities of cross-continental and trans-regional encounters!The proposal deadline (1 October) for Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge 3 (Africa-Asia 3) is fast approaching. Don’t miss the chance to participate in this exciting event! Discover the Africa-Asia 3 ClustersThe ConFest aims to facilitate transdisciplinary conversations among participants. There are 12 thematic clusters that correspond to academic trends within the global context. These clusters are meant to be general starting points for your intervention. Explore the 12 Africa-Asia 3 clusters now! Diverse FormatsThe Africa-Asia 3 ConFest clusters can be explored through various formats, including papers, panels, roundtables, posters, as well as audio-visual and other media. We also welcome suggestions for activities and workshops that will enrich the exchange of knowledge and experiences. Submit your ProposalsWith less than two weeks left (deadline 1 October), now is the time to submit your proposal! We are inviting proposals in English, French and Portuguese. The full Call for Proposals can be found here: https://www.iias.asia/event/africa-asia-new-axis-knowledge-third-edition Africa-Asia Book, Craft and Food Fair Publishers and institutes are invited to exhibit at the Book, Craft and Food Fair at Africa-Asia 3 ConFest to present their work to the large number of attendees. Should you be interested in exhibiting at Africa-Asia ConFest 3, please email us: AfricaAsia@iias.nl Contact Information For queries about Africa-Asia Confest 3, please visit our website or contact us at AfricaAsia@iias.nl Contact Email AfricaAsia@iias.nl URL REMINDER: CfP Eighth European Congress on Universal and Global History Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions [Announcement] Christoph Gümmer CfP Eighth European Congress on Universal and Global History Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, 10−12 September 2025   Keynote Speakers Laura de Mello e Souza  Fe Navarrete Linares    Call for Panels and Papers Since its foundation in 2002, the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) has emerged as the leading international association for research and teaching in world and global history. Following seven successful congresses in Leipzig, Dresden, London, Paris, Budapest, Turku, and The Hague, the next ENIUGH congress will be held at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. The congress will be on site only, although panel chairs may in exceptional cases allow participants to present their papers remotely. Under the overall theme of “Critical Global Histories” we aim to further discussion, self-reflection, and the exploration of new avenues in global history. Over the past decade, global history has expanded internally (quantitatively and thematically, as well as methodologically and theoretically) and has, in doing so, influenced many other fields of research in the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, the expansion has led to debate and criticism, not least within the field. Objections have been raised against global history’s alleged macro-historical emphasis, connectivity bias, Eurocentrism, Anglophone dominance, and lack of attention to gender perspectives and Indigenous methodologies. Global history has also been accused of being imbued with neo-imperial, teleological, globalizing, exoticizing and neoliberal leanings. In recent years, decoloniality as a research practice and method has raised further questions regarding the situatedness of knowledge and the role of local sources for global history. At the same time, a current nationalist backlash in many countries has led to calls for a return to national history, thereby challenging the fundamental premises of global history. At the Eighth ENIUGH Congress, we aim to pick up on these discussions and take a step forward by opening a space of dialogue, both between global historians and between global historians and their colleagues in other disciplines who are involved in the study of the global human pasts or who work with transnational, transregional, transcultural approaches in their respective fields. The Eighth ENIUGH-Congress will be a meeting place for scholars from all of the fields that go beyond methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism. We believe that critical thinking – both in the sense of impartial and intellectually disciplined thinking and in the sense of an augmented awareness of the many pitfalls associated with global history – can provide some of the means by which the field can evolve and retain its intellectual vigor and contemporary relevance. By framing the theme in terms of “global histories” in the plural, we aim to promote the inclusion of a broad range of voices, perspectives and orientations within the field, while forcefully rejecting the possibility of insisting on a single, dominating story or grand narrative of global history. The overall theme of the congress will be explored in a series of keynote events, roundtables, and panel discussions and in several of the regular panels and presentations at the congress. Aside from the events related to the overall theme of the congress, we expect the congress to reflect the entire span of current research in global history, and we look forward to welcoming to Växjö scholars from all over world working on global and world history and related fields of study. Proposals can include a wide range of topics related to global, entangled, and transnational historical processes and phenomena, with no geographic or chronological limitations. While we expect most of the congress delegates to be historians, we also welcome scholars from other disciplines engaged in the study of humanity’s global pasts. We invite contributions consisting of presentations of original research and empirically grounded work in progress, as well as theoretical, methodological, ethical, and historiographical reflections. We particularly encourage contributions that reflect on how critical thinking can be applied in global historical investigations. Although the main language of the congress will be English, individual presentations and panels in other languages can be accommodated (see further below). In particular, we welcome contributions (both panels and individual papers) tailored to one of the following themes: Temporalities and periodizations in global history Ethical aspects of doing global history Expanding the global archive Multivocality in global history Global history and decoloniality Transdisciplinary approaches Indigenous perspectives and methodologies Challenging modernity from the perspective of global history National history, nationalist backlash, and identity politics Global environmental history Nordic colonialism In addition to the main conference themes, we also invite proposals dealing with relations, transfers and entanglements between states, peoples, communities and individuals located in or spanning different parts and regions of the world.   Proposals We invite proposals for panels, double panels, roundtables, and individual papers. Papers and presentations may be in any language, but abstracts for all panels, roundtables, and papers must be provided in English. Panel chairs must ensure the openness, accessibility, and coherence of their panel, and it is recommended that Q&A sessions be held in English regardless of the language of the presentations. All congress delegates are expected to participate on site in Växjö. In exceptional circumstances, panel chairs may allow a minority of presentations to be held remotely. Panels may comprise up to four presentations, and double panels may comprise up to eight presentations, in addition to commentators and chairs. Panels must consist of scholars representing at least two different institutions in at least two different countries. Double panels must include participants from at least three different institutions in at least three different countries. Roundtables may include up to five participants, in addition to commentators and chairs. Like double panels, roundtables must include scholars from at least three different institutions in at least three different countries. We also welcome proposals for individual papers, which, if accepted, will be assigned to a panel by the steering committee of ENIUGH. Papers that speak to one or several of the themes listed above are particularly welcome, and the theme of most relevance to the proposal should be indicated in the submission form.   Submissions All abstracts for panels and papers must be submitted by October 15 2024 via the registration tool on our website. Please note that all speakers of a panel must submit their papers individually in addition to the collective panel submission. Abstracts for panels should be 250 – 300 words long and should indicate all panelists, their institutional affiliations as well as their paper titles. Additionally, panel abstracts should be pertaining to one of the conference themes. Abstracts for papers should be 200 – 250 words long and indicate whether the paper is submitted as an individual paper or as part of a panel. In the latter case the abstract should name the panel title as well as the convenor’s name. All abstracts should be in English. If the presentation is in a language other than English, please state this in the abstract. (Papers are selected solely on the basis of content, not linguistic criteria.) Abstracts should also indicate whether you plan to participate in person or online. Please note that the convenor and a majority of participants in each panel must participate on site. Selected panels and papers will be notified in December 2024.     Contact Information Panel/Paper Submission and Registration: https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/registration-tool/