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: Dr Mishka Sinha (Oxford), 'Ordering the East- publishers' series and the invention of the oriental classic, 1878-1950'

27 November 2020

SEMINAR: Dr Peter Brooke (Oxford), 'Duncan Sandys and Decolonisation'

26 January 2018

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SEMINAR: Dr Robert Fletcher (Warwick), 'Decolonization and the Arid World'

13 October 2017

SEMINAR: Dr Ruth Morgan (Monash) , 'A Thirsty Empire: Water Scarcity in the British Indian Ocean World 1850-1945'

17 November 2017

SEMINAR: Dr Simon Layton (Queen Mary), 'Piracy and the Oceanic Turn'

13 February 2018

SEMINAR: Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford), 'Toussaint Louverture, the Black Spartacus of Saint-Domingue'

13 November 2020

SEMINAR: Dr Tim Livsey (Northumbria) - History Faculty Lecture Theatre 'The view from Ikoyi: negotiating late colonialism in Nigeria

08 November 2019

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SEMINAR: Dr Tobias Metzler (Thammasat), "… we must prevent a further outbreak." : Global networks and the fight against the 'yellow peril'

13 June 2017

SEMINAR: Dr Valeska Huber (Freie Universität Berlin), 'Channels of communication: Rethinking connections and their limits in the Suez Canal Region c. 1900'

06 March 2018

SEMINAR: Dr Violette Pouillard (Ghent), 'The Imperial Zoo. The commodification of wildlife, colonial propaganda, and transimperial conservationism (London, Paris, and Antwerp zoos, nineteenth century-ca. 1960)'

01 December 2017

SEMINAR: Dr William Ashworth (Liverpool), 'Eric Williams Revisited: The State, Protectionism, Slavery, and Industrialisation, 1700-1800'

06 November 2020

SEMINAR: Dr. Jeong-Ran Kim 'Eradicating Pathogens, Eradicating Empire: Quarantine against repatriates in Busan and Japan after WWII'

29 October 2019

SEMINAR: Dr. Paul Merchant (University of Bristol) 'Oceanic Perspectives: Towards a Cultural History of South America's Pacific Coast'

12 November 2019

SEMINAR: Edmund Burke III (California) 'In Search of the Sociology of Islam: The Revue du monde musulman'

05 November 2018

SEMINAR: Faizah Zakaria (Nanyang Technological University), 'The colonization of elephants in the making of modern Malaya, c.1500-1900'

08 February 2019

SEMINAR: Faridah Zaman (Oxford), 'Redefining the Caliphate: Indian Pan-Islamism in the early twentieth century'

25 January 2019

SEMINAR: Federica Gigante (Oxford), 'Physicians, agents and collectors: the importation and study of natural specimens from the Middle East in seventeenth-century Europe'

22 February 2019

SEMINAR: Guido van Meersbergen (Warwick), 'Anglo-Indian Diplomacy in the Seventeenth-Century: A History in Documents'

12 February 2019

SEMINAR: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute), 'Civilization and reproduction: the freedom of translation, Berlin/Tokyo 1908'

23 October 2018

SEMINAR: Harriet Aldrich (St Hugh's, Oxford) 'The Condition of Exile: Ghanaian Political Exile Networks in the Post-Independence Period'

06 December 2019

SEMINAR: History on the move: commemorating the teaching of Jan-Georg Deutsch

28 April 2017

SEMINAR: Iberian History Seminar Regina Grafe (European University Institute), 'Piezas de Indias and asientos: Imperial regulation, commercial practices, and the pan-European genesis of the trade in enslaved Africans in Spanish America')

30 January 2020

SEMINAR: Julia Adeney Thomas (Notre Dame), 'The historian's task in the Anthropocene'

11 October 2018

SEMINAR: Katharina Oke (Oxford), 'The politics of the public sphere: print culture in colonial Lagos, 1880s-1940s'

23 February 2018

SEMINAR: Mandy Izadi (Oxford), 'Indigenous Survival: A History of Seminoles in the American Southeast and Greater Caribbean'

15 January 2019

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SEMINAR: Michael Joseph (Oxford), 'The First World War and the reimagination of empire in the British and French Caribbean'

09 November 2018

SEMINAR: Mining and Environmental Change in African History - 'Comparing the Copperbelt' project

03 November 2017

SEMINAR: Professor Andrew Thompson (Oxford), 'The Human Rights of Political Detainees - Nelson Mandela, Robben Island and the International Committee of the Red Cross'

16 October 2020

SEMINAR: Professor David Anderson (Warwick) 'Global Struggles and Africa's Cold War'

18 October 2019

SEMINAR: Professor David Moon (York), 'The Amerikan Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s'

10 November 2017

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