Laurent Tissot

Laurent Tissot is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Neuchâtel. He is the co-founder of the International Commission of the History of Travel and Tourism and former treasurer of the International Committee of Historical Sciences.   His main themes of research are: history of transport and tourism, and history of industrialization (business history, regional history)

Katja Castryck-Naumann

Katja Castryck-Naumann is a senior researcher at the Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig and lecturer at Leipzig University. She is currently general secretary of the Network of World and Global History Organisations, an international affiliate of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, and president of the European network of world historians.  

Her research deals with the global history of Eastern Central Europe, with international organisations and with the development of world/global historiography, including the UNESCO histories of mankind.

Matthias Middell

Matthias Middell is Professor of Cultural History and Director of the Global and European Studies Institute as well as of the Research Centre Global Dynamics at Leipzig University and a board-member of the International Committee of Historical Sciences. His main themes of research are: processes of spatialization in modern world history, the history of revolutions, and history of intercultural transfers.

Jie-Hyun Lim

Jie-Hyun Lim is Professor of Transnational History and director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University, Seoul. Lim serves also the “Network of Global and World History Organizations’ as the president. He has published widely on nationalism and Marxism in comparison, Polish history, transnational history and global memory. He has been the series editor of “Mass Dictatorship in the 20th century” and “Entangled Memories in the Global South” at Palgrave/Macmillan Publisher. Most recently, he published the book of Mnemonic Solidarity-Global Interventions co-edited with Eve Rosenhaft (2021), Victimhood Nationalism-A Global History (2021), and Global Easts: Imagining, Remembering, Practicing (2022). As a memory activist, he has been co-curating exhibitions of “Unwelcome Neighbors,” “Naming Forced Laborers” and others.