I teach on all levels from introduction courses to PhD courses.  My current teaching at SU includes Historia I (Delkurs 2: Lecture on the Global Middle Ages; Delkurs 3: coordinator plus seminar and lecture on racism in the early modern world), Historia II (Fractures of Empire), and Historia III (lecture about Methods in History).

During the fall term 2024 I coordinated the international graduate school "Global Archives Online".

Between 2020 and 2023 I tought primarily in the Master programme Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University. 

I moreover teach different global history courses as at the University of the Philippines (Diliman, Baguio) as adjunct professor, at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, at Meio University in Okinawa and the Universiteit Antwerpen. 

PhD supervision: Mathias Istrup Karlsmose (SU), Tamara Ann Tinner (LNU), Isak Kronberg (LNU).

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

• Multiple Actors and Pluralistic Practices: Non-European Perspectives on Early Modern Diplomatic Relations

  2024. Birgit Tremml-Werner. European Diplomacy, 49-67

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• The Elephant in the Archive: Knowledge Construction and Late Eighteenth-Century Global Diplomacy

  2023. Birgit Tremml-Werner. Itinerario 47 (2), 185-202

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  This article explores the dynamics behind global diplomacy and knowledge in Asian maritime empires in the late eighteenth century. The short-lived diplomatic exchange between the Kingdom of Mysore and the Spanish Philippines in 1776–7 provides a rich resource for an analysis of how global diplomatic agents coproduced material objects, images, and written records which in turn impacted politics and trade relations. The article makes at least four important interventions in the burgeoning field of new diplomatic history. First, it sheds light on certain aspects of growing research on Asian diplomatic encounters connecting the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia; second, it offers insights into the manifold actors involved in creating and negotiating knowledge; third, it highlights the epistemological importance of the visual and material archives for the study of global diplomacy in the early modern period; and fourth, it challenges narratives of cross-cultural foreign relations which tend to overemphasise asymmetrical and confessional explanations.

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• Rethinking colonialism through early modern global diplomacy: A tale of Pampangan mobility

  2024. Birgit Tremml-Werner. Journal of Global History 19 (1), 18-36

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  This study is an intervention in early modern global diplomacy. Integrating an indigenous community of the Philippines into foreign relations and maritime connections, the article reevaluates the complex story of the Pampangans of Luzon, allegedly long-term allies of the Spanish conquerors, and the narrative of indigenous collaboration. Foregrounding the Pampangans’ involvement in military campaigns, as well as territorial and maritime expansion in the early decades of the 1600s, the article introduces three scenarios of Pampangan power bargaining with global consequences. The focus on Pampangan foreign relations opens new analytical perspectives on the role of language and knowledge for internal coloniality on the one hand, foreign and diplomatic negotiations on the other. Methodologically, it proposes a deep (re-)reading of the polyvocal archive of the colonial-indigenous encounter and integrates insights with the largely separated scholarship of diplomatic and indigenous history as a new avenue in global history.

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