Communities Comparisons Connections
The research group Communities Comparisons Connectionsy is composed out of historians and social scientists and aims at studying historical processes from an international, comparative and global point of view. This research group unites expertise in the fields of international-comparative and world history. Our focus on Communities Comparisons and Connectionsis is applied to a variety of research topics: case- and regional studies from a comparative perspective, research into broad societal shifts with global ramifications and into various models of explanation for social change on a global and longue-durée scale. Much attention is paid 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 historians, 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 interests of this research group and of our members. On the left you can find our activities, publications, work in progress and an outline of the education we offer.
Research foci
- World history
- World studies and world-systems analysis
- Migration history
- Transnational history
- Translocal history
Regional foci
- Central Africa (Congo & Rwanda)
- West Africa (Mali & Niger)
- North America (US)
- South America (Bolivia)
- East Asia (China)
- Northern Europe (Belgium)
- Middle East (Egypt & Syria)
Head of the research group
- Prof.dr. Eric Vanhaute
- Prof. dr. Baz Lecocq
- Prof. dr. Cornelis Van Minnen
- Prof. dr. Stefaan Smis
- Prof. dr. Michael Limberger
- Prof. dr. Jo Van Steenbergen
- Dr. Frank Caestecker
- Jan-Frederik Abbeloos Ma
- Petra Vervust Ma
- Gillian Mathys Ma
- Stéphane Hoste Ma
- Myriam Mertens Ma
- Joris Mercelis Ma
- Hanne Cottyn
- Yang Wang
- Veerle Adriaenssens
- Stijn Vannieuwenhuyse
- Jeroen Vanwymeersch
Presentations CCC
June 29th, 2009
Baz Lecocq, Tuareg City Blues – Cultural Capital in a Global Cosmopole (article)
Jan-Frederik Abbeloos, Le Grand Détour de Force: the Globalization Hype (1989‐2009)
August 24th, 2009
Jan-Frederik Abbeloos, The copper commodity chain (PhD project)
Eric Vanhaute, Who is afraid of global history? (article)
September 30th, 2009
Petra Vervust, Behind and beyond the labels: rehistoricizing the master narrative of
ethnicity in Rwanda during the colonial period (introduction)
October 28th, 2009
Myriam Mertens, Locating medical knowledge production about Congo: the case of TRYPANOSOMIASIS research (1900-1940)
November 25th, 2009
Gillian Mathys
