What are the relevant contexts in which we should situate the UCSC Center for World History? Terry Burke (Professor Emeritus, History Department) will discuss this question in his upcoming talk, “The UCSC Center for World History in its World Historical Contexts.” The talk will be held both in-person in Humanities I, Room 210, and online via Zoom.

Burke proposes we locate it in what he calls the “World History Moment” (late 1960s-early 2000s), and will add relevant contexts during the course of the talk. The lecture will then move to an overview of the emergence of world history in the UC system in the 1980s-2000s, focusing on the World History Workshop, a UC Multi-Campus Research Group (MRG) founded by Kenneth Pomeranz and Burke. The UCSC Center for World History and its connections to the UC project – as well as its major accomplishments – will be reviewed.

Burke’s talk will conclude by asking where world history stands today, and will offer ways it might be revived.