The World History Association’s 35th Annual Meeting will be held in Incheon, Korea  with the theme "Closed Borders and Global Connections: Being Global after Globalization." We ask: how can we write, teach, and think about world history in a moment characterized both by global entanglement and anti-globalist politics ? What historical precedents —such as empires, invasions, epidemics, diasporas, trade routes, or cross-cultural encounters—might help us imagine a world that is connected but not necessarily globalized in the modern sense? What models of both interconnection and interdiction have emerged or persisted outside the framework of globalization? And how might the changing present force us to rethink historiographical frameworks about the past?  You can find the extended theme and other information about the conference here.