Public Lecture
Valeska Huber: A World of Readers: The Project of Universal Literacy in the Twentieth Century
8 April, 7 PM, Max Weber Office, 20 Shota Rustaveli Ave, Tbilisi
Closed Workshop
“Global Publics and Global History” with Valeska Huber
9 April, 10 AM – 2 PM, Max Weber Office, 20 Shota Rustaveli Ave, Tbilisi
We invite young researchers – master students and PhD – to join a masterclass with Valeska Huber to discuss about the most recent scholarship in the field of global history. How can we apply insights from debates within the larger field of global history to concrete projects on the master’s and PhD level? And how do we connect histories of the South Caucasus and Georgia to discussions within histories of communication and globalization? The workshop will feature a discussion of select texts, and each participant will get a chance to briefly speak about their current plans and/or projects.
Valeska Huber is one of the leading scholars in the field of international and global history of the 19th and 20th centuries. She has published widely on mobilities and migration and on the history of global publics, as well as on theoretical and methodological questions of writing global history from a social and micro-historical perspective. In her current book project, she is examining the question of universal access to information using the example of 20th-century literacy campaigns.
To apply for this class, please send a short motivational letter of approximately 300 words to info(at)mws-georgia.org until 6 March, 2026. Please detail your background and current field of study and let us know about one-two of your main question that you have in relation to global history. What do you already know? And what do you hope to find out?