Balzan-FRIAS Lecture: Ulinka Rublack
The Triumph of Fashion: A Global History
Which methodologies help us to write global cultural history? This lecture answers this question by looking at the history of dress and fashion as drivers of interconnected global change. It busts the myth that fashion was a modern European invention. Focusing on the period 1100-1800, this lecture traces the distinctive factors which shaped the deep influence of fashion as a force in different societies and shows how, in many respects, global influences created European fashion rather than the other way round.
Balzan-FRIAS Lecture
When?
22 January 2026
16:15-18:00
Where?
FRIAS seminar room, Albertstraße 19, 79104 Freiburg
Open to
FRIAS Fellows
Members of the University of Freiburg
Contact
E-Mail: FRIAS Team Events
About the project
Designed and directed by Balzan laureate Jürgen Osterhammel in conjunction with Professor Stefanie Gänger (University of Heidelberg), the Balzan-FRIAS Project in Global History aims at probing the intellectual foundations of global history as it has developed internationally as a field of historical studies during the past three decades. The project, funded by the Balzan Foundation (Milano/Zürich) as part of the Balzan Prize awarded to Jürgen Osterhammel in 2018, is a comprehensive programme rather than a sharply focussed research project. It runs from 2019 to 2025 and is directed by Osterhammel in conjunction with Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gänger (Heidelberg), a global historian and specialist on Latin American history. The programme is now in its final phase.
