Thinking about Change in the Global Era” – Is change a social event or something that happens first in individual minds? Do we think about change differently now that we think of ourselves as living in an era of globalization? Using three examples from her recent work – human rights, notions about the meaning of time, and religious toleration – Hunt considers some of the basic conceptual dilemmas inherent in writing history and in thinking about change more generally. The perspective is not one of abstract philosophy, however; the focus is on specific stories, why they matter, and how we tell them.