Communities Comparisons Connections

Latest NEWS

* ENIUGH 2014: from 11 to 14 September 2014, the fourth European Congress on World and Global History will take place in Paris.

* Summer Academy on labour in Global History : from 24 November to 1 December 2013, the international research centre IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and the Centro de Pesquisa em História Social da Cultura (CECULT), University of Campinas (Brazil) organize the Summer Academy "Free and Unfree Labour in Global History". The event will take place at Campinas.

* GAPSYM7: on 6 December 2013, the 7th annual symposium of the Africa Platform of Ghent University Association, “Africa and Food: challenges, risks and opportunities”, will be held in Ghent.

 

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Mission statement

The research group Communities Comparisons Connections brings together historians and social scientists who aim to study historical processes through the scope of a varying set of  spatial, social, religious and political geographies in comparative perspective. Our focus on Communities Comparisons and Connections is applied to a variety of research topics: case- and regional studies in comparative perspective; broader societal shifts with global ramifications; and various models of explanation for social change on a global and longue-durée scale. We pay attention to different units of analysis (societies, states, civilizations, networks, systems etc.) and to methods to investigate processes on a global scale (comparative analysis, system-analysis, network-analysis etc.)

CCC is a cross departmental research group, bringing together a varied group of scholars, focussing on a broad spectre of thematic, temporal and regional foci, ranging from the Middle-East, via Africa and Asia, to Europe and the Americas. During our monthly meetings we discuss our current affairs; new work of our colleagues; as well as new developments in the field.

Below you find an overview of the different points of particular interest within the research group. On the left you can find our activities, publications,  links, contact information, and an outline of the educational programmes in which we offer our insights.

 

Click here for the research report 2011(with history, objectives, research output etc)

Research foci

• World history
• World studies and world-systems analysis
• Globalization
• Migration history
• Transnational history
• Translocal history

 Research areas

CCC research areas weergeven op een grotere kaart

Regional foci

• Central Africa
• West Africa
• North America
• Andes region
• East Asia
• Northern Europe
• Middle East
• India