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DESCRIPTION:This session is meant to be an introduction to\, and discussion
  about\, Cambridge University Press' forthcoming volume called _Explaining
  International History_\, edited by Erez Manela\, Elisabeth Leake\, and He
 ather Salter. Its purpose is to understand and explore the emerging field 
 of international history. While top universities in the United States and 
 the United Kingdom offer Ph.D.\, M.A.\, or undergraduate programs in the f
 ield and university presses in North America and Europe have established f
 lourishing book series devoted to it\, until now there has been no compreh
 ensive\, up-to-date guide to the central concepts\, approaches\, and metho
 ds that make up this rapidly expanding field. This volume\, written by lea
 ding scholars of international history whose expertise spans a variety of 
 specializations\, is the first of its kind. Its twenty-four essays explore
  how the recent scholarship on international history has reshaped once-dom
 inant narratives in the field\; how new perspectives and approaches have o
 pened a whole range of new historical questions\; and how historians might
  imagine the future of the field. Given the field's close relationship to 
 the field of World History\, its authors and editors are eager for a World
  History audience to weigh in on the project. This session features two of
  the volume's editors (Manela and Salter) and two of its chapter authors (
 Louro and Salter)\, including the author of the chapter on World History i
 tself (Salter).
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LOCATION:Room 105 (Seats 84)
SUMMARY:Explaining International History (Cambridge University Press) - Hea
 ther Salter\, Erez Manela\, Michele Louro
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/K7Q9WT/
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UID:pretalx-wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026-YLPN93@pretalx.com
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DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to write and teach world history in the 21st 
 century? This plenary session brings together historians whose work spans 
 Africa\, Asia\, the Indian Ocean world\, and China in a global context\, t
 his plenary examines the methodological and pedagogical challenges of narr
 ating the past beyond the nation-state. Drawing on their diverse regional 
 and thematic expertise\, the panelists will discuss how historians balance
  what analytical scales best illuminate historical connections and how glo
 bal history can be taught and written about in ways that remain both rigor
 ous and accessible in an era of renewed nationalist storytelling.
DTSTAMP:20260412T123929Z
LOCATION:Room 106 (Seats 105)
SUMMARY:Plenary: Writing\, Teaching\, and Scaling World History - Sharika D
 . Crawford\, Laura Mitchell\, Heather Salter
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/YLPN93/
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UID:pretalx-wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026-CN3RAW@pretalx.com
DTSTART;TZID=KST:20260627T131500
DTEND;TZID=KST:20260627T144500
DESCRIPTION:This panel asks what happens when we the Second World War by fo
 regrounding perspectives that sit at the edges of empire\, nation\, and hi
 storical memory. Together\, the papers trace how people far from the well-
 known narrative epicenters nonetheless experienced the war as an intimate\
 , dislocating\, and world-shaping event. One paper examines British effort
 s to mobilize West African troops for the Burma Campaign\, revealing a web
  of contradictions: African soldiers trained for desert warfare but deploy
 ed to jungles\; colonial racial hierarchies so rigid that exiled Polish of
 ficers were drafted to lead them\; and a conflict imagined for the Sahara 
 that unfolded in Southeast Asia. A second paper widens the lens across Wes
 t Africa\, showing how both soldiers and civilians encountered shifting im
 perial loyalties\, coercive mobilization\, and new political ideas that un
 settled colonial authority. A third paper shifts to rural north China\, wh
 ere locust plagues\, famine\, and fractured occupation regimes forced comm
 unities into parallel wartime struggles largely absent from global narrati
 ves. The final microhistory follows three Polish-Jewish-South African brot
 hers whose wartime service shaped their contested positions within aparthe
 id’s racial order. Together\, these papers illuminate WWII as a genuinel
 y global war—one lived and interpreted from profoundly liminal and margi
 nalized spaces.
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LOCATION:Room 106 (Seats 105)
SUMMARY:Margins and Legacies of WWII as a Global War - Trevor Getz\, Heathe
 r Salter\, Michele Louro\, Roy Doron\, Jonathan T. Reynolds\, John  Willia
 ms
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/CN3RAW/
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