Current Curriculum

The annotated course catalog of the Winter Semester 2025/26 is available here.

For modules 4-9, please see the annotated course catalogue above.

Please note, that Omri Polatsek's class "Crop Cultures of the Anthropocene: Global Histories of Industrial Agriculture and Food Systems (1880s-1970s)" can also be taken for Modules 4,5 and 9. See listings under Modules 2 & 3 below for more information.

Current Core Courses: Winter Semester 2025/26

M1: Global Spaces

Lecture Series "The World in Global History". (Michael Goebel)

Tue 4-6pm (Room A127, FMI)

Approaches to Global History - Seminar 1. (Michael Goebel)

Mon 10am-12pm (Room A125, FMI)

Approaches to Global History - Seminar 2. (Michael Goebel)

Tue 2pm-4pm (Room A124, FMI)

Approaches to Global History - Seminar 3. (Frederik Schröer)

Tue 2pm-4pm (Room A121, FMI)

M2: Global Histories

From Bretton Woods to Neoliberal Globalization. The History of the Global Economic Order Since 1944. (Jonas Kreienbaum)

Mon 2pm-4pm (Room A184, FMI)

Humanitarian Intervention, Peacebuilding, and Statebuilding in the Western Balkans in Global and Historical Perspectives. (Kristóf Gosztonyi)

Thu 10am-12pm (Room 4031, Friedrichstraße 191, HU)

Illiberal Internationalism: Catholic Reactionaries, Global Fascism and the Transnational Far Right from the 19th Century to the Present. (Ned Richardson-Little)

Mon 12-2pm (Room A127, FMI)

Germany’s (global) history through the lens of migration. (Minu Haschemi Yekani)

Thu 12-2pm (Room A121, FMI)

Between Science and Security. Dual-use technologies since the late 19th century. (Andreas Greiner)

Blockseminar Time & Room Info

Looking through the City: Global Urban Histories in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (Michael Goebel)

Changing Times (Room K03, Rüdesheimer Str. 54/56)

Crop Cultures of the Anthropocene: Global Histories of Industrial Agriculture and Food Systems (1880s-1970s) (Omri Polatsek) opolatsek@mpiwg-berin.mpg.de

[please note, this course doesn't appear on the FU course catalogue, but you can take it for this module.]

Tue 4-6pm (Room H2051, TU Berlin) More info here Hier können Sie sich anmelden | ISIS

Please use form H here to register your participation in this class at the end of the teaching semester and send it to globalhistory@fu-berlin.de, indicating which module you would like to credit this class under, as well as a copy of your transcript from campus management.

First session 14.10.2025

M3: Global Configurations

Economic Change and Social Cohesion (ca. 1850-1930). (Alexander Nützenadel)

Tue 4-6pm (Room 1.404, Dorotheenstraße 24, HU)

Cultures of Socialism in Eastern Europe after 1945. (Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu)

Time & Place TBA

Queering Soviet History. (Alexandra Oberländer)

Tue 10am-12pm (Room KL 24/122d, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, FU)

Bordermaking in Eastern Europe. (Ruslana Bovhyria)

Tue 10am-12pm (Room TBA, Garystraße 55, FU)

Too Much. A global intellectual history of excess (too many people, too much stuff, too much information). (Leonie Wolters)

Mo 10am-12pm (Room A184, FMI)

Biological Sex and Race in the Colonial Sciences, 1700-Present. (Sarah Bellows-Blakely)

Fri 2-4pm (Room A124, FMI)

Crop Cultures of the Anthropocene: Global Histories of Industrial Agriculture and Food Systems (1880s-1970s) (Omri Polatsek) opolatsek@mpiwg-berin.mpg.de

[please note, this course doesn't appear on the FU course catalogue, but you can take it for this module.]

Tue 4-6pm (Room H2051, TU Berlin) More info here Hier können Sie sich anmelden | ISIS

First session 14.10.2025

M11: Current Historical Research

Global History Colloquium

Mon 4-6pm (Room A336, FMI)

M12: Colloquium

Mastercolloquium Global History

Ulrike Schaper
Thu 10am-12pm (Room A125, FMI)

Additional Classes at the University of Potsdam

This Semester, there are are some classes at the University of Potsdam that our students can also attend. These courses cannot be registered on Campus Management, instead, at the end of the semester, please get a participation certificate signed, and come to our office hours. The classes can be credited for the modules listed below after consultation with the program coordinator.

You can also view these classes on the University of Potsdam’s website, here.

For questions about classes at the University of Potsdam, please contact the relevant lecturer, or for general enquiries, Prof. Dr. Marcia Schenck: marcia.schenck@uni-potsdam.de

“DDR Global? Sozialistische Mobilitaeten und ihr Erbe” Hauptseminar

Tom Drechsel

Mondays 14-16:00, Rm. 1.11.0.09, 14:00-16:00

13.10.2025-02.02.2026

No classes on 22.12.25 or 29.12.25

M4, M5, M9

Colonial Crimes and International Law MA Seminar

Riley Linebaugh

Mondays 16-18:00, Rm. 1.12.0.14,

13.10.2025 - 02.02.2026

No classes on 22.12.25 or 29.12.25

M2, M3, M4, M5, M9