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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Keynote Lecture: Timothy James LeCain "A Post-Anthropocentric Politics"

06 December 2019
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Keynote Speaker - OSGA Global Forum Inaugural Lecture

26 November 2019
Kimberley Nicholson

Kimberley Nicholson

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Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World - online lecture series

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Launch of the Colonial Ports and Global History (CPAGH) network

08 November 2018
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Launch of the Colonial Ports and Global History Network, 8 November 2018

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Launch of the Oxford Environmental History Network (OEHN)

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LECTURE: 'Fanon Transformed? The New Writings'

30 May 2017
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LECTURE: Carne Ross (Independent Diplomat), 'Anarchist Diplomacy'

15 October 2018
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LECTURE: Daniel Burt, 'Board Games and Medieval Medicine' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Lecture Series

10 December 2020
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LECTURE: Dr Ivan Jaksić, 'Lessons from Empire: The First Hispanists in the United States, 1820-1880'

12 October 2017
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LECTURE: Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Medeniyet University, Istanbul), 'Is 'Science' Always Exact?' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Lecture Series

07 January 2021
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LECTURE: Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Medeniyet University, Istanbul), 'Rings of Heaven' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures

29 October 2020
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LECTURE: Professor Colin Mayer (Oxford), 'The Future of the Corporation'

14 March 2018
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LECTURE: Professor Jean Allman, 'Toward a Post-Mortem of the African Revolution: Rethinking the Global Sixties'

02 November 2017
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LECTURE: Professor Jeremy Adelman, 'Is There a Global History of Humanitarianism?'

31 October 2017
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LECTURE: Professor Julia Bray (Oriental Studies, Oxford), 'Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Oxford' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Lecture Series

12 November 2020
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LECTURE: Professor Sheldon Garon, 'Transnational History and Japan's "Comparative Advantage"'

20 October 2017
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LECTURE: Professor Sir Paul Nurse, 'Science as Revolution'

02 March 2018
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Leonardo Davoudi, Christopher McKenna, & Rowena Olegario, 'The historical role of the corporation in society' (Journal of the British Academy, 2018)

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M. Larmer, 'Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt'

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M. Larmer, E. Guene, B. Henriet, I. Peša, R. Taylor (eds.), 'Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities'

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Made In Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization

30 May 2023
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Malabar's Golden Trail: From the Indian Ocean to the Global Economy

06 November 2023
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Maldivian History: A drop in the Indian Ocean

28 November 2022
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Manifesting Colonial Collectivities: Black Women and Trauma in Mid-Colonial Mexico

24 February 2023
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Mapping Civilizations: The World from the West

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Mapping Gulf Infrastructure and Territory

25 April 2023
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Massada Public Seminar: Jewish? French? Transnational? Jews in the Resistance in WWII France

22 October 2019
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Material Culture in Global History - An Exploratory Workshop

24 June 2025
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Oxford Centre for Global History Website