The French Revolution in Global Perspective: Toward a History of Respatialization

Conférence de Matthias Middell (Global and European Studies Institute, Université de Leipzig, chercheur invité au CCEAE) dans le cadre de la collaboration institutionelle entre le Groupe international de formation à la recherche, IRTG Diversity, et le Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1199) “Processes of Spatialization Under the Global Condition” (Université de Leipzig, Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe and Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography).

Quand : le 19 septembre de 14 h à 16 h
Où : Salle Lothar-Baier (525-6), 5e étage du Pavillon 3744, Jean-Brlllant
Université de Montréal (métro Côte-des-Neiges)


Resumé :

Since the debate about Atlantic Revolutions, the French Revolution has been seen as a global event. Our understanding of such global connections has been enriched by the rise of global history over the past three decades. The talk highlights and interprets recent scholarship about the global ramifications of the revolution in France. In particular, it addresses the question what we can learn from this new research about a history respatialization of the world that is the focus of the Leipzig Collaborative Research Centre on “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition.”


Biographie :

Matthias Middell is the director of the Global and European Studies Institute and the speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre on “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” at the University of Leipzig. His monographs and edited volumes include François Noël Babeuf. Märtyrer der Gleichheit (Berlin, 1988), Alles Gewordene hat Geschichte. Die Schule der Annales in ihren Texten 1929 – 1992 (Leipzig, 1994), Von der Elbe bis an die Seine. Kulturtransfer zwischen Sachsen und Frankreich im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (Leipzig, 1993), Lust am Krimi. Beiträge zu Werk und Wirkung Walter Markovs (Leipzig, 2011), Self-reflexive area studies (Leipzig, 2013), Transnational Challenges to National History Writing (Basingstoke, 2015), and The Practice of Global History Hardcover (Bloomsbury, 2018).