Discussion organised by members of the “Whose Global History?” collective Some thirty years after global history was first conceptualised as a distinct approach, the roundtable Global History in a Time of Crisis asks whether global history still offers the proper tools with which to address current political, intellectual, and disciplinary challenges. The participants reflect on where global history is today, how it is deployed (and resisted) in different academic and political contexts, and they offer suggestions for its future development. Some of the key questions that drive the discussion are: Who and what is global history mostly about? Who is it written by? Who is it primarily for? What aims and whose purposes does it serve? What is it good for? And how can we reimagine global history as a more equitable global practice that is both more politically engaged and more methodologically robust? This roundtable discusses the collectively authored “Arena” forum on Global History in a Time of Crisis currently being prepared for submission to the Journal of Global History. This Arena is the outcome of ongoing conversations by an international collective under the title “Whose Global History?”. We are concerned with the conditions under which global history is practiced in different national and institutional contexts around the globe and its relevance – and urgency – in today’s world. After an introduction by the chair that lays out the parameters of the initiative (Van Meersbergen), the contributions that follow on the issue of “new centrisms” in global history (Xu, Jaiswal); the place of Europe in global historical narratives and the role that visions of the global can play in Europe (Riall, Sugiura); and the potential for a decentred global history “from below” that starts with the perspectives and sources produced by marginalised social actors and their local and trans-national histories of social activism and resistance (Biswas, Ammermann). Each contribution will be followed by a shorter comment from one of the members of the collective.