Following the successful and rewarding congresses of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) held in Leipzig, Dresden, London, and Paris, the next ENIUGH Congress will take place in Budapest, hosted by the Central European University (Department of History) and Corvinus University (Karl Polanyi Research Centre at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy). Under the overall theme “Ruptures, Empires, Revolutions” and on the occasion of the centennial of the Russian Revolution, we seek to discuss the global context and repercussions of the revolution in particular while debating the role of revolutions in global history in general. In recent global history scholarship, the relationship between empire and revolution has been less explored than other topics. Furthermore, revolutionary upheavals have mostly been interpreted as caesuras in national histories and not as being situated in global dynamics. Considering still influential narratives, like the supposedly universal trend from “empire to nation”, we encourage such views to be challenged through a comparative and global perspective on empires and imperial societies. The chosen focus has also the potential to put centre stage, compare, and explore the interconnectedness of uneven social and political change around the world, in colonial as well as post-colonial settings. Against the backdrop, panel proposals will explore large-scale socioeconomic crises, changing labour and social regimes, and movements mobilizing for social and political reforms, as well as the breakdown and the reconstruction of political orders, with the cultural, technological, and ideological underpinnings.

With Budapest as the venue of the next European Congress on World and Global History, we hope to attract especially colleagues from and/or working on Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the Middle East/Western Asia at large to an already well-established pan-European network that has, as the past congresses have demonstrated, also been of interest to scholars from other continents. With the 5th ENIUGH Congress, we will continue to explore the relations, transfers, and entanglements between states, peoples, communities, and individuals situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world in a comparative and a longue durée perspective. The common emphasis of the 2017 congress is a commitment to transcending national and Eurocentric historiographies. The panels will not only deal with specific historical subjects but also with questions of method and theory in global history as well as those of teaching and other scholarly practices. The conference will include keynote sessions, roundtables, and a publishers’ exhibition.

We look forward to welcoming to Budapest scholars from all over Europe and beyond that are working on historical interactions and connectivity – whether conceived as micro- or macro-history – that consider and examine specific cross-border movements or intercontinental relations. Topics can include cultural and economic processes as well as the various aspects of material and social life, and can represent approaches from disciplines throughout the area studies, humanities, arts, and social sciences.

Under the congress theme “Ruptures, Empires, Revolutions”, we invite panel proposals addressing the following – but not to be considered exhaustive – list of topics:

• histories of empire: formation, expansion, stabilization and reform, dissolution and legacies, in relation especially to their larges-scale repercussions
• inter-imperial and international relations and forms of cooperation and competition, and in general actors, institutions, and issues of cross-border collaboration
• continuities, discontinuities, and connections between imperial and national organization of politics, economy, culture, and society at large, including complex spatial arrangements
• transnational, region-wide, and global ruptures – especially wars, violent transformation, and radical interventions in the distribution of ownership – and their connections resulting in new orders
• actors, biographies, and mobility in relation to revolutionary history in a global perspective
• the end of empire and its effects on international law and the reconfiguration of the international state order
• comparison of revolutionary upheaval across areas and times with a special emphasis on the relationship between global processes and revolution in order to overcome the focus on isolate case studies within comparative revolutionary history; revolutionary times as crucial eras for transborder communication and cooperation
• comparing and/or correlating representations and imginations of empires and revolutions in various media and arenas and how they circulated across empires and regions in efforts both to legitimize ruptures and revolutions as well as to combat the mobilization of actors for revolution; political, cultural, as well as historiographical strategies to relate past, present and future across ruptures

Proposals
We invite proposals for panels comprising up to 4 participants, or double-panels with 5–7 participants, in both cases including commentators. In addition to the names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of the participants, proposals should include titles and abstracts of the panel as a whole (200–600 words) and of each individual paper (100–300 words).
Please note that, at this stage, it is only proposals for whole panels, rather than for isolated papers, that are sought. After the Steering Committee of ENIUGH and the Budapest Congress Committee have selected panels by the end of June 2016, there will be a second call for individual paper proposals, which either can included in open slots in the already accepted panels or form additional panels.

Submission
All proposals must be received by 15 June 2016 and submitted electronically through the ENIUGH congress website:

Costs
For the participation fee we offer an early-bird rate: 4 day-attendance 150 EUR (full); 120 EUR (students); 100 EUR (ENIUGH members), and 80 EUR (ENIUGH student members). There will also be a day-ticket of 50 EUR (full); 40 EUR (students).
Unfortunately we cannot provide travel grants but we will organize accommodation suiting different needs and financial situations.

Dates and deadlines
June 2016: Call for panels closes; authors of panel proposals will be notified of the outcome.
September 2016 Call for papers announcement; opening of and review of individual paper proposals.
November 2016: Call for papers closes; authors of individual paper proposals will be notified of the outcome.
March 2017: Conference registration announcement; publishing of programme, and opening of conference registration and accommodation reservation (through the ENIUGH Congress website).

Inquiries
For information about the 5th ENIUGH Congress, please contact us at:
ENIUGH Headquarters
Steffi Marung, Centre for Area Studies / SFB 1199, University of Leipzig
Katja Naumann, Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO) at the University of Leipzig
Matthias Middell, Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig
E-mail: congress@eniugh.org

Organizing team in Budapest
Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Institute of Advanced Study / Department of History, Central European University, Budapest
Judit Klement, Department Atelier, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Attila Melegh, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy / Karl Polanyi Centre for Global Social Studies, Corvinus University

Contact Info: Alexandra Medzibrodszky, Conference Assistant to the Organizing Team in Budapest  Medzibrodszky_Alexandra@phd.ceu.edu