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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CFP: Transnational & Global History Seminar (Michaelmas Term 2020)

11 October 2020
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Changing Global Orders

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Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea

23 April 2024
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Chris Wickham

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Christel Arlette Zunneberg

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Colloquium on the Latin American Debt Crisis of 1982

26 April 2019 to 27 April 2019
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Colonial Ports and Global History (CPAGH)

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Comparing the Central African Copperbelt: Kitwe conference, July 2018

Comparing the Copperbelt

Comparing the Copperbelt

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Conference - Broadcasting Colonialism: Sight, Sound and Media Technologies in the Colonial World

16 May 2024 to 17 May 2024
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CONFERENCE - Comparing the Copperbelt: Social history and knowledge production in Central Africa

18 June 2021 to 19 June 2021
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CONFERENCE: 'CRN Conference 2018: Congolese Studies: Past, Present, Future'

26 April 2018 to 27 April 2018
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CONFERENCE: 'The Algerian War of Independence: Global and Local Histories, 1954-62, and After'

10 May 2017 to 12 May 2017
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CONFERENCE: 'The Practice of Global History' - 'Global Nodes, Global Orders' Leverhulme International Network

29 September 2017 to 30 September 2017
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CONFERENCE: 50 Years of Dependency and Development: Global Perspectives

26 November 2019
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CONFERENCE: A Violent World? Changes and Limits to Large-Scale Violence in Early Modernity

29 June 2017 to 01 July 2017

CONFERENCE: A World Transformed: The First World War and its Legacy

19 June 2019 to 21 June 2019
Beyond the Home: New Histories of Domestic Servants conference

CONFERENCE: Beyond the Home: New History of Domestic Servants

07 September 2017 to 08 September 2017
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CONFERENCE: Contemporary International History: Current Perspectives, Future Directions

10 September 2018 to 11 September 2018
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CONFERENCE: Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism

28 September 2019 to 29 September 2019
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CONFERENCE: Cross-Border Payments in Historical Perspective | GloCoBank Project Event

27 March 2025 to 28 March 2025
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CONFERENCE: Global Cotton: Cotton as a case of precocious globalization

13 January 2017 to 14 January 2017
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CONFERENCE: Identity Abroad in Central and Late Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean

07 January 2022 to 08 January 2022
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CONFERENCE: Medieval Zomias: Stateless Spaces in the Global Middle Ages

08 February 2019 to 09 February 2019
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CONFERENCE: Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence

25 May 2019 to 26 May 2019
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CONFERENCE: Sensing Colonial Ports and Global History

02 May 2019
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CONFERENCE: The 2019 History of War Conference

19 March 2019
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CONFERENCE: The Art of Independence: Visions of the Future in India and Pakistan

12 October 2017 to 13 October 2017
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CONFERENCE: What Was Iberian Asia? New Perspectives on Spanish and Portuguese Exploration 1500-1700

27 May 2022
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Connected Histories Twenty-Five Years Later

24 June 2022
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Oxford Centre for Global History Website