Past Events

  • 10.05.2023: Ismay Milford (Universität Leipzig), Florian Wagner (Universität Erfurt) and Margot Tudor (University of Exeter): “Coloniality and Decolonization in the 20th century international sphere.” Moderated by Haakon A. Ikonomou. Event co-organized with the Europe and International Co-Operation Research Group (CEMES) in collaboration with the GloBio Working Group and the New Diplomatic History Network. More information here.

  • 16.11.22: Nancy Sinkoff (Rutgers University) and David Barak-Gorodetsky (University of Haifa) “On Lucy Dawidowicz and Judah Magnes”, GloBio Conversation (Public Event)

  • 08-12.08.22: Cheltenham, United Kingdom: GloBio Summer Institute. GloBio, Department of International History, London School of Economics, CEMES, Contemporary and Modern European History (COMO), University of Sheffield. Organizing Committee: Victoria Phillips (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Imaobong Umoren (LSE), Laura Almagor (Uni. of Sheffield) & Haakon A. Ikonomou (Uni. of Copenhagen). (Conference)

  • 25.05.22: David Murphy (University of Strathclyde): “From Colonial Soldier to Anti-Colonial Militant: The Interwar Activism of Lamine Senghor”. Chair: Henry Dee (University of Glasgow), Biographies of Interwar -isms. GLOBIO, LSE, CEMES. (Public Event)

  • 04.05.22: Leslie James (Queen Mary University of London): “George Padmore & Decolonization From Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, & the End of Empire, 1939-59”. Chair: Ismay Milford (University of Edinburgh), Biographies of Interwar -isms. GLOBIO, LSE, CEMES. (Public Event)

  • 06.04.22: Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley): “Turkey: A past against History” Chair: Dimitris Kamouzis (Centre for Asia Minor Studies), Biographies of Interwar -isms. GLOBIO, LSE, CEMES. (Public Event)

  • 27.04.22: Vineet Thakur (Leiden University): “India’s First Diplomat: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri and the Making of Liberal Internationalism”. Chair: Manu Bhagavan (City University New York), Biographies of Interwar -isms. GLOBIO, LSE, CEMES. (Public Event)

  • 23.03.22: Laura Almagor (University of Sheffield): “Beyond Zion: The Jewish Territorialist Movement and interwar ideologies”. Chair: Arie Dubnov (George Washington University), Biographies of Interwar -isms. GLOBIO, LSE, CEMES. (Public Event)

  • 8.03.22: Samuel Zipp (Brown University) and Blanche Wiesen Cook (City University New York): “One World: Wendell Willkie, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the quest for a united world”. Chair: Victoria Phillips (LSE), Biographies of Interwar -isms. GLOBIO, LSE, CEMES. (Public Event)

  • 02.09.21: Sally Sheard (University of Liverpool), Niels Brimnes (AU), Sunniva Engh (University of Oslo), Sanjoy Bhattacharya (University of York): “Biographies of Global Health”, GloBio Seminar: Biographies of Global Health, CEMES/GLOBIO. (Workshop)

  • 29.04.21: Manu Bhagavan (CUNY) “The Most Remarkable Woman: The International Life and Diplomacy of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit”, Discussant: Taylor Sherman (LSE) GloBio Lecture. GLOBIO, LSE, CUNY, CEMES (Public Event).

Past Reading Groups

May 2024
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Andrew Amstutz
'The Global Lives of Muslim Women' 

March 2024
Christian Wicke
'Biography, Nationalism and Ideology'

February 2024
Sietske van der Veen
'Biographical Lexicons: Advantages and Pitfalls'

November 2023
Haakon Ikonomou
'Prosopography, Biography and Global Institutions'

May 2023
Felicia Fricke
Global Osteobiography

March 2023
Kate Elliot
Biography of Things

December 2022
Victoria Phillips and Vera Fritz
Group Biographies

October 2022
Tanya Harmer and Haakon A. Ikonomou
Oral History and Biography

May 2022
Michael Langkjær
“The Liar was finding the truth in the elaboration of his lies”: A Sartrean Key to the Enigma of Karl Lagerfeld’s Autobiographical Mendacity.

March 2022
Haakon A. Ikonomou & Gunvor Simonsen
Scalarity and Scales

February 2022
Ismay Milford
Strongmen and Revolutionaries in African Political Biography

January 2022
Jon Western
The Global Across Fields

November 2021
Daniel Meister
Historical Biography and Microhistory

October 2021
Victoria Phillips, Laura Almagor and Haakon A. Ikonomou
Jill Lepore & Toni Morrison

Globio Podcasts & Recordings

June 2023 | David Murphy (University of Strathclyde): “From Colonial Soldier to Anti-Colonial Militant: The Interwar Activism of Lamine Senghor”. Chair: Henry Dee (University of Glasgow), Biographies of Interwar -isms. GLOBIO, LSE, CEMES.

January 2023 | New Diplomatic History Podcast – “Christine Philliou on political ideas in Turkey in the interwar period”

October 2022 | The Lausanne Project Podcast, Episode 20 - “Biography Goes Global” w/ Laura Almagor & Haakon A. Ikonomou.

May 2022 | New Diplomatic History Podcast - “Blanche Wiesen Cook and Samuel Zipp on interwar isms”.

May 2022 | New Diplomatic History Podcast - “Laura Almagor on the Jewish Territorialist Movement”.

April 2021 | GloBio Recorded Lecture – “Manu Bhagavan. The Most Remarkable Woman: The International Life and Diplomacy of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit”