Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany: Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging

Anne Sophie Overkamp is an associate professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal. Her research interests include German social and economic history with a particular focus on consumption history and material culture, as well as the history of botany in global and imperial contexts.

Simon Siemianowski is an assistant professor at the Institute of Modern History at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on global history, the history of colonial Latin America and the history of language and cultural translation in the early modern period.

Christina Brauner is a professor of Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History at the University of Tübingen. She specializes in the history of West and West Central Africa before 1800, diplomatic and economic history and history of religion.

Renate Dürr is a professor of Modern History at the University of Tübingen. Her latest publications include chapters in Protestant Empires: Globalizing the Reformations (Cambridge, 2020) and Belonging, Materials, Dependency: Perspectives from Early Modern History (De Gruyter, 2024).

Philip Hahn is a professor of Early Modern History at Saarland University. A specialist in urban history, the history of migration and mobility, and sensory history, he is currently working on his second monograph, entitled Sensory Communities: Perception, Order, and Community-Building in the Early Modern Town.

Anne Sophie Overkamp is an associate professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal. Her research interests include German social and economic history with a particular focus on consumption history and material culture, as well as the history of botany in global and imperial contexts.

Simon Siemianowski is an assistant professor at the Institute of Modern History at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on global history, the history of colonial Latin America and the history of language and cultural translation in the early modern period.