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Dear All,

You are kindly invited to the EHRC Workshop on Globalizing Eastern Europe scheduled to take place this Friday 16^th January 2026

Our keynote speaker James Koranyi who is an Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History (Durham) will be speaking on ‘Flyover Country’: Eastern Europe and Global History

Summary

Eastern Europe has been conspicuous by its relative absence in the burgeoning field of global history. Why is that the case? At a time when scholars claim to care about the global reach of the field into supposed peripheries, the region of Eastern Europe has remained ‘flyover country’. This talk explores some of the reasons behind this situation: from the forgotten traditions of ‘global’ scholarship in Eastern Europe to contemporary blind spots of global history scholars. Eastern Europe history, too often ignored, has the potential to uncover assumptions baked into current debates about globality in academia.