Format

The Sandbjerg Summer School in Global History provides PhD students with an invaluable chance to reflect on the opportunities and challenges in writing a global history dissertation and share their own experience of working in this field. Each student will prepare a written paper in English of about 4-5,000 words to be submitted for pre-circulation by early June (please do not forget to put your name onto the document and include pagination). All participants are expected to read every paper in advance of the school. During the school each student will have 5-10 minutes to introduce their paper. PowerPoint facilities will be available. Each student will also be asked to act as commentator on one paper, speaking for no more than 5 minutes. A further comment will come from one of the senior scholars. Participants will discuss every paper individually for forty-five minutes. This format ensures that each presenter not only receives detailed feedback on their own work but also acquires experience in commenting on other speakers’ work.

Lecturers and course participants also participate in round table discussions, thereby providing further opportunities to build experience and share expertise. The Sandbjerg residential summer school is the perfect setting for these exchanges and ensures that students form new associations with both students and scholars from other European countries, which is helpful for their future careers.