CADIZ SUMMER SCHOOL 2025

Global Cadiz: New Perspectives

Cadiz, July 7-9, 2025

Coordinated by Professors Mark Thurner (LAGLOBAL), Manuel Bustos (UCA), and Adrian Masters (Universitat Trier, Germany)

The 2025 edition of the LAGLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL offers broad training led by world-leading experts in Global and Connected History, with a focus on the cultural and economic history of Cadiz, one of the modern world’s most significant crossroads of empire and commerce.  Taking as its point of departure the transcultural and transimperial formation of modernity, the course will focus on Cadiz as a global ‘Gateway to the Indies’ and entrepot of networks that circled the world.  Master classes will go beyond the canonical narratives of European or ‘Western’ expansion, focusing instead on the production and circulation of objects, the formation of modern subjects, and the emergence of modern ways of knowing the world. The course includes field visits to historical sites of global-historical significance in Cadiz.

For further information, please contact Professor Mark Thurner at mthurner@flacso.edu.ec.  For registration and scholarship information, please contact Salvador Romero at salvador.romero@uca.es 

CHIMBORAZO SUMMER SCHOOL 2022

Beyond Humboldt and Darwin: Decolonizing Natural History

Quito, June 3-12

Led by International Distinguished Professors Mark Thurner and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

The 2022 edition of the CHIMBORAZO SUMMER SCHOOL offers advanced training for professionals, graduate students, postdocs, and junior scholars in Global and Connected History, with an emphasis on the natural history of the New World and in particular the Andes. Taking as its point of departure the intercultural formation of natural historical knowledge, the course will go beyond the canonical figures of European science, including Humboldt and Darwin, and the associated concepts of the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and Evolution, focusing instead on the production and circulation of objects of knowledge and ways of knowing of New World origin. The course includes field visits to historical and natural sites of great interest, including La Mitad del Mundo, the Chimborazo Volcano and, optionally, the Galapagos Islands.

For further information, please contact Professor Mark Thurner at mthurner@flacso.edu.ec.  For registration information, please contact formacioncontinua@flacso.edu.ec.