Let’s talk about Transnational History – Research in Dialogue

Bernhard Struck
Sunday 31 January 2016

PhD researchers from the European University Institute, Florence have taken the initiative – they kicked of a series of interviews with historians from different national and institutional backgrounds on European history with a comparative and transnational focus. The series “Research in Dialogue – Dialogue in Research” is published by geschichte.transnational and HSozKult.

The series includes interviews with Lucy Riall, currently professor in Comparative History of Europe at the EUI, and Stéphane van Damme, professor in the History of Science at the EUI.

The latest interview has been published with Bernhard Struck, bernhard-struckformer director of our ITSH. The conversation addresses questions of direction of the field, the relevance of scales between micro and macro history, the neglected spatial element of transnational history, as well as potential tensions between national funding and an increasingly transnationally-driven research environment – and the world more broadly. Read the full interview here.

For more interviews with our colleagues from the EUI enjoy reading the interviews with Luca Molà, Ann Thomson or Alexander Etkind.

The ITSH and the EUI cooperate at the level of PhD exchanges via an Erasmus exchange link. If you are interested in coming to St Andrews or going to Florence, get in touch.

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