BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//pretalx//pretalx.com//wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026//speaker//UGS Y3M BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:KST BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20000101T000000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:KST TZOFFSETFROM:+0900 TZOFFSETTO:+0900 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026-SX7KDB@pretalx.com DTSTART;TZID=KST:20260625T131500 DTEND;TZID=KST:20260625T144500 DESCRIPTION:The H/21 Project (History for the Twenty-First Century) is a co llaborative project of the World History Association\, which seeks to reth ink world history curricula by designing inquiry-based and student-centere d lessons on critical topics in world history. The goal of this project is to support college and university faculty by offering open-access instruc tional materials\, which include curated lessons with primary sources\, in structor guides\, and classroom activities. On this panel\, three H/21 aut hors will discuss their new modules: Eric Nelson’s presentation explore s a “Big History” module that aims to provide students with a mental m ap of four critical eras in our shared human history\, while also strength ening skills in synthesis and historical empathy. Jodie Marshall will pres ent a module in which students explore the early modern Indian Ocean as a space\, connected through imperial ambition\, trade\, and human movement. Brenna Miller’s presentation will address teaching the history of shifti ng identities in Southeastern Europe\, from imperial collapse\, the rise o f nationalism\, war\, and the Cold War. All of these papers offer a discus sion of interactive\, student-centered pedagogical strategies. DTSTAMP:20260412T123903Z LOCATION:Room 105 (Seats 84) SUMMARY:History for the Twenty-First Century: New Materials for Rethinking the World History Survey Course - Brenna Miller\, Trevor Getz\, Jodie Mars hall URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/SX7KDB/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026-L8QSQA@pretalx.com DTSTART;TZID=KST:20260626T101500 DTEND;TZID=KST:20260626T114500 DESCRIPTION:This panel examines how Ghanaians have imagined\, navigated\, a nd reshaped the wider world across two+ centuries\, using worlding as an a nalytic to foreground how global visions are generated from particular Wes t African places. We note that Ghanaian worlding’s are often left out of the global ‘world history’ picture\, as are many others. Jennifer Hart’s presentation explores Accra as a site where imperial planners\, d evelopment agencies\, and diasporic cultural currents projected competing global ideals—from “model colony” to “capital of cool”—and sho ws how residents fashioned urban lives that engaged\, contested\, and rewo rked these shifting imaginaries. Trevor Getz’s analysis turns to late-ni neteenth-century Cape Coast\, where Anglophone communities avidly debated global politics\, science\, religion\, and culture. Drawing on AI-assisted analysis of Gold Coast newspapers\, it reveals a richly textured public s phere in which Gold Coasters interpreted events from Liverpool to India to the Americas\, crafting their own sense of the world and their place with in it. Finally\, Tony Yeboah examines Kumase’s courtyard architecture as a material expression of transnational life. It traces how colonial inter ventions and later the remittance-funded building practices of Asante burg ers reshaped domestic space and social relationships\, producing built for ms that make visible the region’s evolving weltanschauung. Together\, th ese papers illuminate the diverse ways Ghanaians have worlded the world. DTSTAMP:20260412T123903Z LOCATION:Room 403 PC Desk (Seats 30) SUMMARY:Ghanaian Worldings: Three Global Engagements from West Africa - Tre vor Getz\, Tony Yeboah\, Jennifer Hart URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/L8QSQA/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026-ERSTAK@pretalx.com DTSTART;TZID=KST:20260627T083000 DTEND;TZID=KST:20260627T100000 DESCRIPTION:This workshop is led by History for the Twenty-First Century (H /21)\, a collaborative project of the World History Association\, which de velops teaching modules for introductory-level world history college cours es. Following an introduction to the project goals and H/21's open-access resources\, the organizers (Brenna Miller and Eric Nelson) will lead an in teractive workshop to demonstrate practical examples of active-learning ma terials\, that college and university instructors have successfully implem ented in their courses. Attendees will have the opportunity to experience those materials first-hand\, and consider ways in which they might impleme nt these lessons in their classes. The workshop will also showcase some of the evidence gathered to date of successful outcomes of module lessons\, based on surveys and studies conducted by the H/21 team. DTSTAMP:20260412T123903Z LOCATION:Room 304 PC Desk (Seats 36) SUMMARY:Experiencing Student-Centered Learning for Introductory World Histo ry Courses - Brenna Miller\, Trevor Getz URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/ERSTAK/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT 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. DTSTAMP:20260412T123903Z 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/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR