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- CONFERENCE: 'The Algerian War of Independence: Global and Local Histories, 1954-62, and After'
- SEMINAR: ‘Buccaneering and the political economy of colonialism: a case study from the Caribbean frontier’
- LECTURE: ‘Fanon Transformed? The New Writings’
- WORKSHOP: War, Health and the Environment in the Modern Age
- Dr Andrea Brazzoduro
- Dr Erica Charters
- Dr Jaclyn Granick
- Dr Kevin W. Fogg
- Professor Martin Conway
- Amar Sohal
- Ayesha Mehta
- Bradley Blankemeyer
- Brant Moscovitch
- Callum Kelly
- Conor Meleady
- Danish Khan
- Eamonn Gearon
- Eiko Honda
- Erin O'Halloran
- Evan Matsuyama
- Frances O'Morchoe
- Gregory Hynes
- Hanna Smyth
- Harriet Mercer
- Joel Butler
- Katherine Erickson
- Lewis Bremner
- Matthew Woolgar
- Michael Joseph
- Natalie Cobo
- Nelson So
- Olivia Durand
- Philippe-Andre Rodriguez
- Priya Atwal
- Ria Kapoor
- Saima Ashipala
- Shahnawaz Raihan
- Smriti Sawkar
- Taha Mehmood
- Vanya Bhargav
- Yu Sakai
- Yuzhou Sun
- Zahra Shah
- Global Nodes, Global Orders
- CONFERENCE: The Art of Independence: Visions of the Future in India and Pakistan
- CONFERENCE: Beyond the Home: New History of Domestic Servants
- CONFERENCE: 'The Practice of Global History' - 'Global Nodes, Global Orders' Leverhulme International Network
- LECTURE: Dr Ivan Jaksić, 'Lessons from Empire: The First Hispanists in the United States, 1820-1880'
- LECTURE: Professor Sheldon Garon, 'Transnational History and Japan's "Comparative Advantage"'
- LECTURE: Professor Jeremy Adelman, 'Is There a Global History of Humanitarianism?'
- LECTURE: Professor Jean Allman, 'Toward a Post-Mortem of the African Revolution: Rethinking the Global Sixties'
- SEMINAR: Dr Tobias Metzler (Thammasat), “… we must prevent a further outbreak.” : Global networks and the fight against the ‘yellow peril’
- SEMINAR: Urban Spirituality in Central and Southern Africa
- WORKSHOP: Transoceanic Constitutions: The Corporation as Protagonist in Global History
- Gregory Hynes, DPhil in History
- Dr John-Paul A. Ghobrial
- Professor Abigail Green
- Professor Mark Harrison
- Dr Catherine Holmes
- Professor Miles Larmer
- Dr Conrad Leyser
- Professor James McDougall
- Professor Rana Mitter
- Dr Amanda Power
- Professor Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke
- Professor David Priestland
- Dr Alan Strathern
- Professor Stephen Tuck
- Professor Pekka Hämäläinen
- Undergraduate Admissions
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- European and World History
- Defining the Global Middle Ages
- Globalising and Localising the Great War
- Comparing the Copperbelt
- Nomadic Empires: A World-Historical Perspective
- Research Seminars
- Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
- James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, Chris Wickham (eds.), The Prospect of Global History (OUP, 2016)
- OCGH project on the Global History of Capitalism
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- Professor Elleke Boehmer
- Professor Andrew Hurrell
- Professor Polly O'Hanlon
- Professor Nicholas Purcell
- Dr Simon Smith
- Transnational and Global History Seminar
- Professor Robert Iliffe
- Professor Wale Adebanwi
- Dr Alexander Morrison
- The Jan-Georg Deutsch Memorial Fund
- Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey. G. Williamson (eds.), The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871 (OUP, 2017)
- Dr Jeanette Atkinson
- SEMINAR: Dr Robert Fletcher (Warwick), 'Decolonization and the Arid World'
- SEMINAR: Professor William Beinart (Oxford), ‘The Adamsons, Born Free and the late colonial era: images that changed the animal world'
- SEMINAR: Professor Vinita Damodaran (Sussex), 'Empire Forestry, famines and communities; Eastern India in the nineteenth and twentieth century'
- SEMINAR: Mining and Environmental Change in African History - 'Comparing the Copperbelt' project
- SEMINAR: Professor David Moon (York), 'The Amerikan Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s'
- SEMINAR: Dr Ruth Morgan (Monash) , ‘A Thirsty Empire: Water Scarcity in the British Indian Ocean World 1850-1945’
- SEMINAR: Professor Peter Mitchell (Oxford), ' 'Waiting for the barbarians: what archaeology has to say about southern hemisphere equestrians'
- 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)'
- CONFERENCE: Global Cotton: Cotton as a case of precocious globalization
- Riccardo Liberatore
- Michael Yeo
- Simon Stubbings
- Sean Phillips
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- SEMINAR: History on the move: commemorating the teaching of Jan-Georg Deutsch
- IN CONVERSATION: Pankaj Mishra, ‘Age of Anger: A Conversation on Nihilism in the 21st Century’
- ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATION: Populism as a Global Form - with Akeel Bigrami, Shruti Kapila, Saeed Naqvira
- CONFERENCE: A Violent World? Changes and Limits to Large-Scale Violence in Early Modernity
- WORKSHOP: Global Nodes, Networks, Orders: Global Orders: Three Global History Workshops on Transformative Connectivity
- Riccardo Liberatore, DPhil in History
- Eiko Honda, DPhil in History
- John-Paul Ghobrial, Associate Professor and Lucas Fellow in Early Modern History
- Sudbury Oxford Transnational History Foundation
- Visiting scholars
- Professor Shinobu Majima
- SEMINAR (TGHS): Prof. David Arnold, 'Playing with Fire: Heat and Light in the Environmental History of Modern South Asia'
- SEMINAR (TGHS): Transnational and Global History Post-Graduate Roundtable
- SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Robert Fletcher, 'Deserts, Development and Colonial Control in the Middle East'
- SEMINAR (TGHS): Prof. David Pyle, 'The Volcano's Deadly Work: Records of Volcanic Disasters in the Long Nineteenth Century'
- 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'
- Professor Eugene Rogan
- Professor Peter Frankopan
- Global and Imperial History Research Seminar Michaelmas term programme
- GRADUATE WORKSHOP: Professor Jean Allman, 'Gender and Post-Colonialism'
- Professor James Belich
- WORKSHOP: Gendering Internationalism - Gendering Jewish Internationalism
- WORKSHOP: Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: Japanese Studies and the Environmental Humanities
- Rowena Olegario
- Dr Christopher McKenna
- Dr Gordon Barrett
- Dr Tim Livsey
- Dr Peter Brooke
- The Global History of Capitalism
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- Empires and colonialism
- SEMINAR: Professor Shinobu Majima (Gakushuin), ‘An unnavigable valley: trade and sovereignty in the forest of Borneo, c. 1878-1938’
- SEMINAR: Dr Peter Brooke (Oxford), 'Duncan Sandys and Decolonisation'
- SEMINAR: Professor John Marriott (Oxford), ‘Land and the origins of British India’
- SEMINAR: Dr Benjamin Mountford (La Trobe) & Dr Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford), ‘“Among these incongruous battalia, are represented the hopes of the world”: gold rushes and global history’
- WORKSHOP: Africa and Decolonisation
- CANCELLED - SEMINAR: Dr Manuel Borutta (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), ‘Capital of a liquid continent: the Port of Marseille, the Mediterranean Sea and the re-globalization of France, 1798-1935’
- The Jan-Georg Deutsch Annual Debate
- SEMINAR: Dr Simon Layton (Queen Mary), ‘Piracy and the Oceanic Turn’
- SEMINAR: Dr Dina Gusejnova (Sheffield), 'Islands and isolation in European history: Towards an intellectual history of the Isle of Man'
- SEMINAR: Dr Valeska Huber (Freie Universität Berlin), 'Channels of communication: Rethinking connections and their limits in the Suez Canal Region c. 1900'
- WORKSHOP: Girls, travel and global issues: multi-disciplinary perspectives
- LECTURE: Professor Colin Mayer (Oxford), 'The Future of the Corporation'
- SEMINAR: Katharina Oke (Oxford), 'The politics of the public sphere: print culture in colonial Lagos, 1880s-1940s'
- Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard, Benjamin Mountford (eds.), Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World (Peter Lang, 2017)
- Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Asha Rogers (eds.), The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices (Palgrave, 2017)
- New perspectives: Global Feminisms, c.1870–1930
- Professor Catherine Schenk
- Professor Giuseppe Marcocci
- Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus
- LECTURE: Professor Sir Paul Nurse, 'Science as Revolution'
- CONFERENCE: ‘CRN Conference 2018: Congolese Studies: Past, Present, Future’
- Global and Imperial History Research Seminar: Hilary term programme
- The Royal Historical Society 2018 Symposium, 'The Future of History: Going Global in the University'
- Graduate Student Research Presentations, Global & Imperial History, D.Phil.
- Graduate Student Research Presentations, Global & Imperial History, M.St.
- Professor John L. Brooke, The Astor Lecture in Global Environmental History
- Professor Wayne Lee, The Global History of War Lecture
- Professor Minoru Ozawa
- Research Associates
- Professor Sir Paul Nurse on ‘Science as Revolution’
- OCGH visiting scholar: Professor Minoru Ozawa
- Oxford Environmental History Network
- Launch of the Oxford Environmental History Network (OEHN)
- Oxford and Empire: Teaching Workshop
- Interdisciplinary roundtable: Global climate change and history
- Professor John Darwin
- Chris Wickham
- Professor Margaret MacMillan
- Professor Patrick O'Brien
- RHS Early Careers in History 2018 Workshop
- Humanities teaching award for innovative Oxford and Empire project
- Victor Lal
- SEMINAR: Richard Reid (Oxford), 'Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of pre-colonial war in modern Africa'
- SEMINAR: Andrew Buchanan (Vermont), 'Globalising World War II'
- WORKSHOP: Comparing the Copperbelt: Political culture and knowledge production in Central Africa
- OCGH hosts Astor Visiting Fellow Professor John L. Brooke
- The Royal Historical Society’s 2018 Symposium: 'The Future of History: Going Global in the University'
- CONFERENCE: Contemporary International History: Current Perspectives, Future Directions
- Global History of War lecture 2018
- Dr Erica Charters in The Oxford Historian: Global War and Disease
- Dr Christopher McKenna in The Oxford Historian: Global History of Capitalism
- SEMINAR, Richard Reid (Oxford), ‘War/time: global histories of a local conflict in the Horn of Africa’
- SEMINAR, Patrick O'Brien (LSE): ‘Debating the Great Divergence from the demise of the Ming (1618-44) to the industrialization of Western Europe (1756-1846)’
- Professor John Darwin in The Oxford Historian: Empire History at Oxford
- Dr Faridah Zaman
- Professor Patricia Clavin (BA, PhD)
- Dr Marek Jankowiak
- Professor Richard Reid
- SEMINAR: Valerie Kivelson (Michigan), ‘Celebrating religious diversity: early modern Russia and the power of typological thinking’
- SEMINAR: Valerie Hansen (Yale), ‘Locating the silk road(s) in history and today’
- SEMINAR: Michael Joseph (Oxford), ‘The First World War and the reimagination of empire in the British and French Caribbean’
- SEMINAR: Alexander Morrison (Oxford), ‘Comparing Russian settler colonialism’
- WORKSHOP: Knowledge production in colonial and post-colonial history (Comparing the Copperbelt project)
- SEMINAR: Julia Adeney Thomas (Notre Dame), 'The historian's task in the Anthropocene'
- GRADUATE WELCOME EVENT: Roundtable: How are graduate students practising global history at Oxford?
- SEMINAR: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute), 'Civilization and reproduction: the freedom of translation, Berlin/Tokyo 1908'
- Lola Wilhelm
- SEMINAR: Dr Claas Kirchhelle (Oxford), ‘‘Dr Felix’ Fingerprint Bureau – Bacteriophages and Global Disease Surveillance (1920-2006)’
- SEMINAR: Bronwen Everill (Cambridge), ‘Empire of Accumulation: Consumer Value and the Labor Question in British and American Nineteenth Century Expansion’
- Past events
- Comparing the Central African Copperbelt: Kitwe conference, July 2018
- SEMINAR: Alenka Zupančič (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), 'Love thy neighbour as you love thyself!?'
- LECTURE: Carne Ross (Independent Diplomat), 'Anarchist Diplomacy'
- SEMINAR: Dr Katayoun Shafiee (Warwick), ‘Governing democratic futures: risky measures along an Iranian waterway, 1920-79'
- Symposium: ‘Race and Resistance: Understanding Bermuda Today’
- SEMINAR: Edmund Burke III (California) ‘In Search of the Sociology of Islam: The Revue du monde musulman’
- Launch of the Colonial Ports and Global History (CPAGH) network
- Book publication: Benjamin Mountford & Stephen Tuffnell (eds.), A Global History of Gold Rushes (UCP, 2018)
- Thomas C. Burnham
- Chiara Comastri
- Chiara Comastri
- Marco de Jong
- Danielle Del Vicario
- Yui Chim Lo
- Jonathan H Madison
- Farida Makar
- Juan Ignacio Neves Sarriegui
- Jessica Rahardjo
- Christel Arlette Zunneberg
- WORKSHOP: Pacific Worlds in Global History: Approaches, Challenges & Disciplinary Futures (TGHS)
- Benjamin Mountford & Stephen Tuffnell (eds.), A Global History of Gold Rushes (UCP, 2018)
- Feeding the Peace: the global impact of the 1918 armistice and its legacy
- CONFERENCE: Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence
- Kathryn Gleadle & Zoë Thomas, 'Global feminisms, c.1870–1930: vocabularies and concepts—a comparative approach' (Women's History Review, 2018)
- Gordon Cox
- Launch of the Colonial Ports and Global History Network, 8 November 2018
- Colonial Ports and Global History (CPAGH)
- ‘Whose Oceania?’ Panel discussion with Beit Professor James Belich
- Catherine Holmes & Naomi Standen (eds), Past & Present, Supplement 13: The Global Middle Ages
- CONFERENCE: The 2019 History of War Conference
- SEMINAR: Saul Dubow (Cambridge), ‘Global science, national horizons: paleontology, astronomy and Antarctic research in South Africa'
- WORKSHOP: Broadcasting decolonisation: the radio boom and the end of Empire
- Graduate Student Research Presentations, Global & Imperial History, D.Phil.
- Graduate Student Research Presentations, Global & Imperial History, D.Phil & M.St.
- SEMINAR: Faridah Zaman (Oxford), ‘Redefining the Caliphate: Indian Pan-Islamism in the early twentieth century’
- SEMINAR: Andrew Edwards (Oxford), ‘Cash rules: money and the British Empire in the Age of Revolutions’
- SEMINAR: Faizah Zakaria (Nanyang Technological University), ‘The colonization of elephants in the making of modern Malaya, c.1500-1900’
- SEMINAR: Federica Gigante (Oxford), ‘Physicians, agents and collectors: the importation and study of natural specimens from the Middle East in seventeenth-century Europe’
- SEMINAR: Amanda Power (Oxford), ‘Towards the Anthropocene: state-formation and environment in the global Middle Ages’
- The Jan-Georg Deutsch Annual Debate, 2019
- SEMINAR: Guido van Meersbergen (Warwick), 'Anglo-Indian Diplomacy in the Seventeenth-Century: A History in Documents’
- SEMINAR: Mandy Izadi (Oxford), ‘Indigenous Survival: A History of Seminoles in the American Southeast and Greater Caribbean’
- TALK: Konstantin Dierks (Indiana), 'Archiving Globalization of the United States, 1815-1861: Who Was 'Global' and Who Was Not'
- Past & Present supplementary issue: The Global Middle Ages
- Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Bloomsbury, 2015)
- SEMINAR: Dr Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale), 'From The End of Ideology to the End of History: The Strange Revival of a Discredited Idea'
- Rethinking the Contemporary: The World Since the Cold War
- Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (Bloomsbury, 2018)
- Miles Larmer & Vito Laterza, ‘Contested wealth: Social and political mobilisation in extractive communities in Africa’ (The Extractive Industries and Society, 2017)
- Miles Larmer, ‘Permanent precarity: capital and labour in the Central African copperbelt’ (Labor History, 2017)
- Miles Larmer, ‘Nation-Making at the Border: Zambian Diplomacy in the Democratic Republic of Congo’ (Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2019)
- Symposium presentation by Professor Richard Reid: ‘Contested succession and ‘civil war’ in nineteenth-century Africa’
- PER Seed Fund Award for ‘Oxford and Empire Tours’ Project
- Oxford and Empire: Public History Training Workshop
- Understanding Insurgencies
- Oxford and Empire
- CONFERENCE: Sensing Colonial Ports and Global History
- Publication of Prof Peter Frankopan’s new book, ‘The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World’ (Bloomsbury, 2018)
- CONFERENCE: Medieval Zomias: Stateless Spaces in the Global Middle Ages
- Broadcasting and Decolonisation: The Radio Boom and the End of Empire
- CONFERENCE: A World Transformed: The First World War and its Legacy
- Oxford in the Great War: Study Day
- Book Publication: Alan Strathern, Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (CUP, 2019)
- Alan Strathern, Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (CUP, 2019)
- John Darwin, Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (Penguin, 2013)
- WORKSHOP: Graduate Approaches to Global History
- Leonardo Davoudi, Christopher McKenna, & Rowena Olegario, 'The historical role of the corporation in society' (Journal of the British Academy, 2018)
- The 2019 Interdisciplinary History of War Conference
- Colloquium on the Latin American Debt Crisis of 1982
- Professor Philip Mirowski, 2019 Astor Lecture in Science and Capitalism
- SYMPOSIUM: Radical Business? Business and the Contest over Social Norms
- BOOK LAUNCH: Alan Strathern (Oxford), 'Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History' (CUP 2019)
- SEMINAR: ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’
- Panel discussion: ‘The Trouble with Open Science’ (Astor Visiting Lectureship 2019)
- Roundtable workshop: ‘The Market and Science in Long-term Perspective’ (Astor Visiting Lectureship 2019)
- First international Colonial Ports and Global History (CPAGH) conference
- SEMINAR: Danilo Scholz (EUI, Florence), ‘What were the 1990s? Utopia and the end of history’
- SEMINAR: Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College), 'Shatter the Map: How Milton Friedman and other Neoliberals Imagined a World after Nations'
- SEMINAR: Dr Catherine Holmes (Oxford), 'Approaches to the Byzantine Empire in the Age of Global History'
- Professor Maxine Berg
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- 2019 Visiting Astor Lectureship on Science and Capitalism
- Workshop presentation by Associate Professor Faridah Zaman: ‘Pan-Islamism in Postwar Europe’