Past events

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2026 A B Emden Lecture - Depending on Strangers: Love, Fear, and the Making of the Modern World

13 February 2026, 5:30pm to 5:30pm

Celestial Globe

GIH Friday Research Seminar - The Americas in Catholicism's Global Cold War

5 December 2025, 2:00pm to 2:00pm

Celestial Globe

GIH Friday Research Seminar - Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement

28 November 2025, 2:00pm to 2:00pm

Celestial Globe

GIH Research Seminar - Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History

21 November 2025, 2:00pm to 2:00pm

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Book Talk - Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

17 November 2025, 4:30pm to 4:30pm

Celestial Globe

GIH Friday Research Seminar - The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity

14 November 2025, 2:00pm to 2:00pm

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Roundtable: The Nature of Post-Western Order with Amitav Acharya

10 November 2025, 5:00pm to 5:00pm

Celestial Globe

GIH Friday Research Seminar - Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World

7 November 2025, 2:00pm to 2:00pm

Celestial Globe

GIH Friday Research Seminar - Anti-apartheid in the international imagination: Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism

31 October 2025, 2:00pm to 2:00pm

Celestial Globe

GIH Friday Research Seminar - 'The traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution': 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law'

24 October 2025, 2:00pm to 2:00pm

Maria Misra

Oxford Centre for Global History 4th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture 2025

17 October 2025, 4:00pm to 4:00pm

Femina Oeconomica: Global Gender Orders and the Rise of Neoliberal Woman

mars and britannia

'Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare'

12 September 2025, 6:30pm to 6:30pm

Professor Yasmin Khan

2016-17

9 failure design and the globalisation of risk

12 roundtable discussion black history month

14 boltanski esquerre on the enrichment economy

16 poster diamond

1 poster gh of cotton

2 antoinetteburtonposter

3 global and comparative feminisms poster

4 alan knight poster

10 pankaj mishra the age of anger

11 poster the algerian war of independence

13 donoghue lecture poster

14 boltanski esquerre on the enrichment economy

15 populism as a global form

16 poster war health and the environment in the modern age 6 june

17 poster urban spirituality

2015-16

Christian and Muslim saints Nov 2015

Bridging the gap May 2016

Egypt over the longue duree May 2016

World of reform May 2016

Globalisation Africa May 2016

The new world June 2016

2014-15

Global history of the book Dec 2014

Global history of Europe Feb 2015

Africa in the Great War Feb 2015

Gold rush imperialism Apr 2015

British culture goes global May 2015

Disease and global history May 2015

Globalization and uncertainty June 2015

2013-14

learning from big brothers Sept 2013

Strategies of imperial control Oct 2013

Kinetic empires Nov 2013

Great war and global history Jan 2014

Latin America in global history Feb 2014

The official mind at fifty May 2014

Ocean worlds May 2014

2012-13

New Angles on Empire May 2012

Thinking Global May 2012

New directions in global history Sept 2012

Deserts, steppes and inner spaces Nov 2012

Deep history of migration Feb 2013

Empires of knowledge May 2013