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Oxford Centre for Global History

The Oxford Centre for Global History was established by the History Faculty in June 2011 to reflect its strong commitment to the field. Global History in Oxford is defined broadly as the global movement of people, goods, and ideas and the consequences that flow from them. Chronologically, it extends across all historical periods from ancient to late modern.

The Centre is particularly keen to encourage cooperation between historians of different periods, as well as places, in the study of themes of global significance. It will support research projects, and host workshops, seminars, and conferences. A key part of the Centre’s role is to facilitate the research of all those in Oxford who are keen to develop a global history dimension in their work. 

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SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Philip Murphy (School of Advanced Study), 'Andrew Roth's End of Empire: An Unfinished History of Decolonization'

19 February 2021
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SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen), '"Stop the World": The end of empire and the "break-up of Britain"'

12 February 2021
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SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge),'Colombo as Idea and Artefact'

22 October 2021
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SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford), 'The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics'

26 November 2021
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SEMINAR (History of War): Conversation: The Ethics of Writing Modern War: Kim Wagner (QMUL), Richard Reid (Oxford), Priya Atwal (Independent)

21 October 2020
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Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Dani Ploeger, Anarchist Technologies and Stateless Sovereignty: Tactical Art for the Rojava Revolution

20 January 2023
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Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Igor Cherstich, A Nation without Secrets: Prophetic Revelation and (In)perfect Statelessness in Libya

02 March 2023
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Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Knut Rio, The Question of Indigenous Sovereignties

27 January 2023
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Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Power of Death and Sovereignty: A revisit from a Sacrificial Perspective (Nepal)

24 February 2023
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Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Rebecca Bryant, Aporetic States: Or, What Non-Recognition Tells us About Sovereignty

06 March 2023
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Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Theodoros Rakopoulos, "Against realities on the ground": Untethered Sovereignty and Absentee Statecraft among Cypriot Refugees

08 February 2023
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Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Zaheer Kazmi, Anarchist Imperium: Postcolonial Gods and Masters

10 March 2023
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SEMINAR (TGHS): David Goldblatt, 'The Age of Football: The Global Game in the 21st Century'

10 November 2020
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Eleanor Janega (LSE), 'Suspect women: sex-work, gossip and reputation in 14th century Prague'

27 October 2020
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Glen O'Hara, 'Britain, the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, and the Battle over Maritime Pollution in the 1960s and 1970s'

28 November 2017
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Jessica Hinchy (Nanyang Technological University), 'Intimacy and Violence: The making of gendered margins and criminalized people in colonial India'

23 November 2021
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Rachel Taylor (Oxford), 'African Cosmopolitans: Nyamwezi Men in Precolonial and Colonial East Africa'

23 February 2021
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Robert Fletcher, 'Deserts, Development and Colonial Control in the Middle East'

07 November 2017
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Siobhan Hearne (Durham University), 'Life at the Social and Imperial Margins: The World of Prostitution in the late Russian Empire'

09 November 2021
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations

02 November 2021
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - 'Building Legitamacy'

17 November 2020
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - 'Managing Disease'

08 December 2020
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Seminar (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - 'Minorities, refugees, others'

24 November 2020
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - Colonialism on the Ground

02 March 2021
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - Global Childhood

16 February 2021
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - Identity

02 February 2021
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Open Round Table Discussion Topic: Global History in the Making: Coups, Covid and Conspiracies

19 January 2021
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Prof. David Arnold, 'Playing with Fire: Heat and Light in the Environmental History of Modern South Asia'

17 October 2017
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Prof. David Pyle, 'The Volcano's Deadly Work: Records of Volcanic Disasters in the Long Nineteenth Century'

14 November 2017
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SEMINAR (TGHS): Round Table discussion on Gender on the Margins in Global History

12 October 2021
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