In the last decade, an important shift has taken place within Latin American Studies, advocating a hemispheric, Atlantic, or global approach to writing history. As rewarding and innovative as these new approaches are, they provide specific challenges regarding both methodology as well as implementation.

This workshop, hence, explores new ideas and debates on how to write Latin American history within a global framework and how to trace the links and diffusions of ideas.

We therefore invite papers that can contribute to contemporary and historiographical debates. Possible topics and questions may include:
- Discussion on new methodologies and new sources.
How can we incorporate current debates into our research? What do we stand to profit and which obstacles do we face?
- Hemispheric, Atlantic, and global approaches.
How do Atlantic, hemispheric, and global approaches shift historical perspectives and our spatial imagination?
- Transnational and transcultural perspectives.
How do transnational accounts complement and counter national narratives?
- Multilateralism and Regionalism.
What can we learn from a comparative perspective? Are there regional developments that have been generally overlooked?

While the workshop is particularly aimed at early career researchers on the verge of embarking on long-term projects who stand to particularly benefit from such approaches, it is also open to researchers in other stages.

Submissions should include a 250-word abstract and a short CV. Please submit them by June 30th 2014 to Stella Krepp (stella.krepp@hist.unibe.ch ) and Alexandre Moreli (alexandre.moreli@fgv.br). A limited amount of travel funding will be available.

Organizing Institutions:
Center for Global Studies, University of Bern, Switzerland
Center for International Relations, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil (http://ri.fgv.br/en)