# Global History Colloquium: James Robertson (UC Irvine) on “Transnational Lives and Communist Worldmaking”

Global History Colloquium: James Robertson (UC Irvine) on “Transnational Lives and Communist Worldmaking” at FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Monday 16 November 2026, 18:00.

- Venue: FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
- With: James Robertson
- Go to page: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereiche/global_history/Dates/Colloquium-Global-History_WiSe26-27_04-James-Robertson.html

A talk in the Global History Colloquium at Freie Universität Berlin. James Robertson, an associate professor of history at UC Irvine, speaks on “Transnational Lives and Communist Worldmaking”: using three little-known biographies, he reconstructs how international communism shaped lives, selves, and worldviews. He follows the African American nurse Salaria Kea, the Vietnamese Trotskyist Van Ngo, and the Argentinian-German spy Tamara Bunke. The colloquium takes place in person.

## Dates

- Monday 16 November 18:00 — FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften

Written by a model, sources: [geschkult.fu-berlin.de](https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereiche/global_history/Dates/Colloquium-Global-History_WiSe26-27_04-James-Robertson.html)

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