Transnational history, 1750鈥損resent
The research group's main focus is on modern time period, covering historical and cultural processes from the 18th to the 21st century.
Affiliation
About the research group
The research group 鈥淭ransnational History, 1750鈥揚resent鈥 was established in 2008 under the name 鈥淭ransnational History and Cultural Encounters, 1850鈥揚resent.鈥 The aim of the group was to bring together colleagues from different disciplines and former departments. As a result, the group has become home to economic historians, cultural historians, ethnologists, migration historians, and scholars of religion.
The common denominator has been a shared interest in studying people and phenomena that transcend political and geographical borders. This includes the transaction and exchange of goods and services, the movement of people, and the transfer of culture and ideas 鈥 including processes of acculturation and the hybridization of identities. In short, we study historical and cultural processes in the 18th to 21st centuries that both facilitate and impede internationalization, serving as its causes as well as its consequences.
Externally funded research projects have been an integral part of the strategy of increasing the scale and scope of our research.
Programme for spring 2026
Our meetings and seminars are open to everyone, including interested students. Unless otherwise announced, we meet at 14:15--16:00 in the Corner Room on the second floor of 脴ysteinsgate 1. To access the drafts we are discussing and to confirm the date/venue, send an email to Anders Fylling or Elena Kochetkova.
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4th February:
Marcus Colla (黑料吃瓜资源): Book Chapter: "Memory in the Twilight of History / Scream, Memory: The Presence of the Past in European Politics and Culture, 1968鈥揚resent"
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18th February:
Nathan Hopson (黑料吃瓜资源): Work in Progress: 鈥淎 Mess of Conspiracies and Malfeasance鈥 鈥 A brief genealogy of Japanese anti-anti-whaling conspiratorialism
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18th March:
Heidi Kurvinen (黑料吃瓜资源): Work in Progress: "Transnational Entanglements and Knowledge Exchange in the Nordic Women鈥檚 Suffrage Movements, 1871鈥1921"
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8th April:
Vladia Torres Herrera (黑料吃瓜资源): Conference Paper Draft: "Local Responses to Commodity Diseases: Salmon Farming and Crisis in Chilo茅, Southern Chile"
Elena Kochetkova (黑料吃瓜资源): Article (Forum) Draft: "Zero Growth and Socialist Modernity in Eastern Europe, post-1945"
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13th May:
Group Discussion: A New Study Course on Transnational History
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29th May:
VENUE: SEMINAR ROOM 1, 脴YSTENS GATE 3
: "The Right to Revolution: Communism, Law, and the Courtroom in the interwar United States"
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3rd June: Obs! Kl. 12:00-13:30
VENUE: 听ROM 418, 脴YSTEINS GATE 3
(Norwegian Canning Museum, Stavanger): Project Talk: "Modernisering av sardinproduksjonen i Norge p氓 1960-tallet"
Events
Projects
Merchants and Missionaries. Norwegian Encounters with China in a Transnational Perspective, ca, 1890-1937
The research group was instrumental in developing the NFR-funded research project Merchants and Missionaries. Norwegian Encounters with China in a Transnational Perspective, ca, 1890-1937 (see: ), and received funds from the Norwegian Research Council for a Seminar Series 鈥淧erspectives on transnational history鈥 and other activities (HUMEVAL-prosjektet, 2018-2022).
Completed and ongoing Ph.D. projects
Completed Ph.D. projects from group members:
- Per Kristian Sebak: A Transatlantic Migratory Bypass 鈥 Scandinavian shipping companies and transmigration through Scandinavia, 1898-1929 (23.3. 2012)
- Michael I. Hertzberg: The Anti-Conversion Bill: Political Buddhism, 鈥楿nethical Conversions鈥 and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka (26.2. 2016)
- Olga Medvedeva: Norwegian Employees of the Chinese Customs Service, 1890-1927 (8.12. 2017)
- 脜smund B. Gjerde: The Meaning of Israel. Anti-Zionism and Philo-Zionism in the Norwegian Left, 1933-1968 (29.3. 2019)
- Simon Gogl: Laying the Foundations of Occupation: Organisation Todt and the German Construction Industry in Occupied Norway (NTNU h酶st 2019)
- Sara Kohne: Gentrifiseringens flertydighet. En kulturvitenskapelig analyse av endringer i to byomr氓der i Berlin og Oslo (7.2. 2020)
- Kristine S忙vold: Tax Havens of the British Empire (16.12. 2022)
- Trond Espen Bjoland: Norwegian-American Identities in Small-Twon Wisconsin (6. 12. 2024).
Ongoing Ph.D. projects from group members:
- Anders Fylling: Resources, Relationships, and Networks: The Material Foundations of Alv酶en Papirfabrikk, 1871鈥1930 (ongoing)
Publications
Publications (selected)
Elena Kochetkova:
- Global fat resources: Connecting themes, approaches and narratives, ca. 1850-2022, special issue ed. by Elena Kochetkova, Matthias Heymann, Ines Prod枚hl, Global Environment (forthcoming in 2026)
Marcus Colla:
- (With Anna Gutgarts and Oded Steinberg) Zeitenwenden: New Approaches to the History of Periodization and Time, ca. 1750 to the Present (De Gruyter, forthcoming in 2026)
- (With Paul Betts) Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
- Prussia in the Historical Culture of the German Democratic Republic: Communists and Kings (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Christhard Hoffman:
- Mellom rasehygiene og religionssosiologi. Arvid Brodersens avhandling om den hebraiske eugenikken (1929/31). Historisk Tidsskrift 104:1 (2025>): 41-57.
- Forced Migrants in Nordic Histories, Helsinki: Helsinki University Press 2025, , bidragsyter og medredakt酶r (sammen med Johanna Leinonen, Miika Tervonen, Hans Otto Fr酶land, Seija Jalagin, Heidi Vad J酶nsson og Malin Thor Tureby).
People
Group manager
Elena Kochetkova 贵酶谤蝉迟别补尘补苍耻别苍蝉颈蝉
Group members
Camilla Brautaset Dekan
Sarah Hamilton 贵酶谤蝉迟别补尘补苍耻别苍蝉颈蝉
Christhard Hoffmann Emeritus
Nathan Edwin Hopson 贵酶谤蝉迟别补尘补苍耻别苍蝉颈蝉
Arne Solli 贵酶谤蝉迟别补尘补苍耻别苍蝉颈蝉
Frode Ulvund Professor
Stephan Sander-Faes 贵酶谤蝉迟别补尘补苍耻别苍蝉颈蝉
Marcus Colla 贵酶谤蝉迟别补尘补苍耻别苍蝉颈蝉
Anders Fylling Stipendiat
Joanna Zofia Spyra Stipendiat
Ines Prod枚hl Professor
Anika Seemann 贵酶谤蝉迟别补尘补苍耻别苍蝉颈蝉
Historiker ved Norsk Vegmuseum
Heidi Hannele Kurvinen 贵酶谤蝉迟别补尘补苍耻别苍蝉颈蝉
Professor