Connected at the margins of imperialism? Vladivostok, London and the network of global shipping

Talk by Professor Madeleine Herren-Oesch. This is the third keynote talk of the conference "Spatial Imaginations of Europe: Ideas, Politics, Economics and Law" and covers a longue durée perspective of the conference themes.

Madeleine Herren-Oesch is a professor emerita of modern history and a former director of the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. From 2007 to 2012 she co-directed the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context at Heidelberg University, Germany. She has written several books, chapters and articles on the European and global history of the 19th and 20th centuries, internationalism, the history of international organisations and networks in historical perspective, historiography and intellectual history. She is interested in the impact of digital methods on historical research and historiography. Her current research interests focus on global shipping and the importance of the polar regions for understanding changing global interconnectedness beyond nation states and empires.