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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
• Professor Erica Charters
• Danish Khan
• Eamonn Gearon
• Joel Butler
• Natalie Cobo
• Olivia Durand
• Shahnawaz Ali Raihan
• Taha Mehmood
• 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
• Professor 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 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 Rob Iliffe
• Professor Wale Adebanwi
• Dr Alexander Morrison
• Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey. G. Williamson (eds.), The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871 (OUP, 2017)
• 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
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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
• 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
• The Global History of Capitalism
• Research
• 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 R 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
• 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 Patrick O'Brien
• RHS Early Careers in History 2018 Workshop
• Humanities teaching award for innovative Oxford and Empire project
• 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
• Professor 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'
• 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)
• Chiara Comastri
• Marco de Jong
• Danielle Del Vicario
• Farida Makar
• Juan I. 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
• 2019 Visiting Astor Lectureship on Science and Capitalism
• Workshop presentation by Associate Professor Faridah Zaman: ‘Pan-Islamism in Postwar Europe’
• WORKSHOP: Comparaison de la ‘copperbelt’: société, écologie et culture dans les communautés minières d’Afrique centrale
• Andrew Thompson to join Oxford from AHRC as Professor of Global Imperial History
• Prof. Rana Mitter recognised in 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours
• CONFERENCE: Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism
• ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project holds conference in Democratic Republic of Congo
• ‘Towards a Wider Life’: Norman Manley in Britain and Jamaica
• Massada Public Seminar: Jewish? French? Transnational? Jews in the Resistance in WWII France
• Global and Imperial History Welcome Drinks and Introduction to 'Oxford and Empire'
• SEMINAR: Professor David Anderson (Warwick) ‘Global Struggles and Africa’s Cold War’
• Centre hosts 'Sacred Kingship in World History' conference
• SEMINAR: Dr Cheryl Birdseye (Oxford Brookes) ‘“You taught me language and my profit on it is I know how to curse”: Shakespeare’s The Tempest in postcolonial criticism and performance’
• SEMINAR: Dr Chris Vaughan (Liverpool John Moores) ‘The “federal moment” in East Africa: regionalism and the nation-state, 1958-1963
• SEMINAR: Dr Tim Livsey (Northumbria) - History Faculty Lecture Theatre 'The view from Ikoyi: negotiating late colonialism in Nigeria
• SEMINAR: Professor Paul Lane (Cambridge) ‘Droughts, Pastoralists and Identities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Kenya: an Archaeological Perspective’
• SEMINAR: Professor Gareth Austin (Cambridge) ‘Global(izing) Africa: the case of economic history
• *CANCELLED* SEMINAR: Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham) ‘Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution’
• SEMINAR: Harriet Aldrich (St Hugh’s, Oxford) 'The Condition of Exile: Ghanaian Political Exile Networks in the Post-Independence Period'
• SEMINAR: Dr Dexnell Peters ‘Island and mainland colonies in the Greater Caribbean during the Revolutionary Era’ With a response by Prof David Lambert (University of Warwick)
• SEMINAR: Dr. Jeong-Ran Kim ‘Eradicating Pathogens, Eradicating Empire: Quarantine against repatriates in Busan and Japan after WWII’
• SEMINAR: Dr. Paul Merchant (University of Bristol) ‘Oceanic Perspectives: Towards a Cultural History of South America’s Pacific Coast’
• *CANCELLED* WORKSHOP: Global History Graduate Students Workshop
• Alice Baldock
• Morgan Breene
• Galip Dalay
• Joseph Guido
• Steve Hocking
• Alexander Morrison et al (eds.), The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution
• Dr Alexander Morrison publishes an edited volume on the 1916 Revolt in Russian Central Asia
• Reynold Kai Won Tsang
• Professor Andrew Thompson
• What have we forgotten about globalization?
• Swift against Empire
• SEMINAR: ‘Structure and Culture’, introduced by Chihab El Khachab (Oxford)
• SEMINAR: ‘Boundaries and Interfaces’, introduced by Peter Hill, Andrew Edwards and Juan Neves
• SEMINAR: ‘Africa and Global History’, speaker tbc
• POSTPONED - SEMINAR: ‘Law, Labor, and Social Relations in the British Atlantic World’, introduced by Sonia Tycko (Oxford)
• Keynote Lecture: Timothy James LeCain "A Post-Anthropocentric Politics"
• Workshop: Decolonising colonial ports and global history: rethinking archives of power
• Dr Jennifer Altehenger
• CONFERENCE: 50 Years of Dependency and Development: Global Perspectives
• Professor Patricia Clavin explores the global impact of King Tut
• GHoC project hosts ‘Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism’ conference
• *CANCELLED* Public Engagement Workshop
• Professor Katherine Paugh
• Keynote Speaker – OSGA Global Forum Inaugural Lecture
• New publications by Professor Richard Reid on Africa and global history
• POSTPONED: Oxford and Empire: A workshop with Catherine Hall
• Workshop: Extractive Industries and the Environment: Production, Pollution and Protest from a Global and Historical Perspective
• Richard Reid, Time and Distance: reflections on local and global history from East Africa
• Richard Reid, Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa
• Yusen Yu
• Kevin Fogg publishes monograph on Islam in Indonesia's revolution
• Kevin Fogg, Indonesia's Islamic Revolution
• Pekka Hämäläinen, Lakota America, A New History of Indigenous Power
• Pekka Hämäläinen publishes monograph 'Lakota America, A New History of Indigenous Power'
• Equality through the Market Milton Friedman and the Origins of Universal Basic Income, Dr Daniel Zamora
• Fishing and the Global History of Conservation: Preliminary Comparisons of Past and Present
• Dr Fanny Bessard
• The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023
• History Faculty James Ford Lectures
• Professor Peter Frankopan has won the Calliope Prize for Practical Migration Research 2019
• SEMINAR: Professor Saliha Belmessous (University of Southern Wales) 'International treaties as imperial social contracts'
• SEMINAR: Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne), '“A pack of knaves”: the Royal African Company, large plantations and the rise of the planter class and imperial commitment to the support of slavery in British America 1672-1708'
• SEMINAR: Dr Jennifer Altehenger (Merton, Oxford), 'Materials, design and revolution in the making of modern China'
• SEMINAR: Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham), ‘Slavery in the Nigerian Sahel: a resilient institution’
• SEMINAR: Dr Alex Middleton (Christchurch, Oxford), 'Napoleon III, the invasion of Mexico, and mid-Victorian Liberalism'
• SEMINAR: Dr Dexnell Peters (Exeter, Oxford), ‘Revolution, empire and entangled history in the Southern Caribbean’
• Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
• *POSTPONED*: Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
• SEMINAR: (TGHS) Dr Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh (Kent), 'Approaches to Queer History'
• WORKSHOP: (TGHS) Global History Graduate Students Workshop 1
• SEMINAR: (TGHS) Dr Eleanor Janega (London School of Economics), 'Suspect Women: sex-work, gossip and reputation in 14th century Prague'
• CANCELLED - WORKSHOP: (TGHS) Global History Graduate Students Workshop 2
• John-Paul Ghobrial, Global History and Microhistory: a Supplement Volume of Past and Present
• Can there be a global micro history?
• Professor John Darwin awarded CBE
• Bodleian Fellows Seminar: Dr Jenna Marshall (Kassel). 'Creolising Fabians at the end of empire: contested visions of postwar development policies in the Caribbean and South East Asia'
• The James Ford Lectures : Demography and Marriage
• The James Ford Lectures : Race and Belonging
• 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’)
• POSTPONED - WORKSHOP: The Art of Dissent in the Iberian World 1500-1700
• The James Ford Lectures : Property and Pensions
• The James Ford Lectures : Material Cultures and Homes
• The James Ford Lectures : Dynasty and Violence
• POSTPONED - CONFERENCE: The Oxford Sudbury Transnational and Global History Seminar (TGHS) Graduate Conference 2020: Global Bodies, Global Lives
• Call for Papers: TGHS Conference: Global Bodies, Global Lives
• The Mao Era in Objects website
• POSTPONED - CONFERENCE: Myriad Materialities: Towards a New Global Writing of Colonial Ports and Port Cities
• *POSTPONED* WORKSHOP: Managing Airs and Climates: New approaches from History and Beyond
• Professor Paul Betts
• CANCELLED - LECTURE: Linda Colley – Warfare and the Global Spread of Constitutions: An Argument
• Robert N McCauley
• New Global History of Medicine reading group discusses Covid-19
• Iva Peša, Crops and Copper: Agriculture and Urbanism on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000
• CONFERENCE - Comparing the Copperbelt: Social history and knowledge production in Central Africa
• CALL FOR PAPERS - Comparing the Copperbelt: Social history and knowledge production in Central Africa, revised date 17-19 June 2021 (Oxford)
• Professor Catherine Schenk awarded ERC grant for new research project
• New publications by Comparing the Copperbelt's Dr Iva Peša
• Iva Peša, 'Mining, Waste and Environmental Thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000'
• Oxford and Empire
• Two years of the Oxford and Empire Project
• Dr Dexnell Peters
• Professor Youssef Cassis
• Professor Ian McBride
• Alan Strathern wins WHA Bentley Prize
• CFP: Transnational & Global History Seminar (Michaelmas Term 2020)
• MSt Global and Imperial History since 1400
• DPhil Study
• SEMINAR: Professor Andrew Thompson (Oxford), ‘The Human Rights of Political Detainees - Nelson Mandela, Robben Island and the International Committee of the Red Cross'
• SEMINAR: Professor Faisal Devji (Oxford), ‘Escaping the Global Event: India, Islam and the Great War'
• SEMINAR: Dr Hannah Theaker (Oxford), ‘Chinese Partition: Islamophobic Inheritances in the Legacies of the Great Northwestern Rebellion, 1860-1874'
• SEMINAR: Dr William Ashworth (Liverpool), 'Eric Williams Revisited: The State, Protectionism, Slavery, and Industrialisation, 1700-1800’
• SEMINAR: Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford), ‘Toussaint Louverture, the Black Spartacus of Saint-Domingue’
• SEMINAR: Professor Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research), ‘Revenge of the Commons: property, debt and collateral in the history of African financial capitalism'
• SEMINAR: Dr Mishka Sinha (Oxford), 'Ordering the East- publishers’ series and the invention of the oriental classic, 1878-1950’
• SEMINAR: Dr Graeme Thompson (Harvard), 'Kin Beyond Sea': W.E. Gladstone on Liberalism, Empire, and America, 1846-1898’
• Benjamin Arrona
• Michael Collins
• Zhou Fang
• Zhixia Jin
• Eirik Kvindesland
• KDee Aimiti Ma'ia'i
• Joel Littler
• Jan-Willem Prügel
• Michael T. Roberts
• James Alexander Samuel Sunderland
• Weihan Sun
• Amy Tibble
• Itamar Toussia Cohen
• SEMINAR (History of War): Conversation: The Ethics of Writing Modern War: Kim Wagner (QMUL), Richard Reid (Oxford), Priya Atwal (Independent)
• Richard Reid, 'Shallow Graves: A Memoir of the Ethiopia–Eritrea War'
• Iva Peša, 'Between waste and profit: Environmental values on the Central African Copperbelt'
• A personal account of the Eritrea-Ethiopia war (1998-2000) by Richard Reid
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Welcome and Open Round Table Discussion
• Giuseppe Marcocci, 'The Globe on Paper'
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Eleanor Janega (LSE), 'Suspect women: sex-work, gossip and reputation in 14th century Prague'
• SPECIAL EVENT (TGHS): Race, Research, and the University: Historians’ Approaches - in collaboration with Race Equality Action Group (REAG)
• SEMINAR (TGHS): David Goldblatt, 'The Age of Football: The Global Game in the 21st Century'
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - 'Building Legitamacy'
• Seminar (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - 'Minorities, refugees, others'
• LECTURE: Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Medeniyet University, Istanbul), 'Rings of Heaven' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures
• 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
• LECTURE: Daniel Burt, 'Board Games and Medieval Medicine' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Lecture Series
• LECTURE: Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Medeniyet University, Istanbul), 'Is ‘Science’ Always Exact?' - Knowledge in Motion - Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Lecture Series
• Giuseppe Marcocci's new book 'The Globe on Paper'
• Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World - online lecture series
• Dr Todd Hall
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - 'Managing Disease'
• E. Charters, M. Houllemare, P. Wilson (eds.), 'A Global History of Early Modern Violence'
• New publication, 'A Global History of Early Modern Violence'
• New doctoral studentship: Women and Work in the City of London, 1870-1970, in partnership with the Baring Archive
• Political Economy and Culture in Global History/Capitalism in Global History blog post series and virtual online workshops
• WORKSHOP: Maxine Berg (Warwick): Capitalism in Global History, articles from the virtual issue and elsewhere
• WORKSHOP: Joanna Innes (Oxford): Political Economy and Culture in Global History, series of blog posts
• WORKSHOP: Jeremy Adelman (Princeton): Capitalism in Global History, editors' introduction
• Nicola Carotenuto
• New publication 'The Russian Conquest of Central Asia' by Alexander Morrison
• Alexander Morrison, 'The Russian Conquest of Central Asia'
• Virtual issue of 'Past & Present' on 'Capitalism and Global History' out now
• Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000
• CFP: Transnational & Global History Seminar (Hilary Term 2021)
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Katie Donington (London South Bank), ‘The Bonds of Family’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Nükhet Varlik (Rutgers), 'Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Emma Hunter (Edinburgh), 'Colonial public spheres, liberal thought and indirect rule in interwar Africa'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen), ‘“Stop the World”: The end of empire and the “break-up of Britain”’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Philip Murphy (School of Advanced Study), 'Andrew Roth's End of Empire: An Unfinished History of Decolonization'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Krishan Kumar (Virginia), ‘Empire and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)’
• Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations 1
• Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations 2
• Oxford and Empire Network: Travel and Translation series - 'Translating Education'
• Oxford and Empire Network: Travel and Translation series - 'Oxford and the Americas'
• Oxford and Empire Network: Travel and Translation series - 'Oxford and Oriental Studies'
• Oxford and Empire Network: Travel and Translation series - 'Voyages and Voyagers'
• Oxford and Empire Network: Travel and Translation series - 'Oxford City and Empire'
• Oxford and Empire Network: Travel and Translation series - 'Forced Migration and Colonial Legacies'
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Open Round Table Discussion Topic: Global History in the Making: Coups, Covid and Conspiracies
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - Identity
• SPECIAL EVENT (TGHS): Reading Group in collaboration with Race Equality Action Group (REAG) 'Race, Teaching, and the University: Historians' Approaches'
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - Global Childhood
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Rachel Taylor (Oxford), 'African Cosmopolitans: Nyamwezi Men in Precolonial and Colonial East Africa'
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations - Colonialism on the Ground
• Global & Imperial History Research Seminar programme for Hilary Term 2021
• Oxford & Empire podcasts now available
• READING GROUP: Jeremy Adelman, 'Ecology and the commons'
• READING GROUP: Katherine Paugh (Oxford), 'Social reproduction and labour'
• READING GROUP: William Clarence-Smith (SOAS), 'Manufacturing in the ‘Third World’, 1840s-1940s '
• Political Economy and Culture in Global History reading group meetings
• Now available online (Open Access): ‘Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa’s Borderland Communities’
• M. Larmer, E. Guene, B. Henriet, I. Peša, R. Taylor (eds.), 'Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa’s Borderland Communities'
• Dr Mads Bomholt Nielsen
• TGHS: The Jan-Georg Deutsch Debate: Motion 'Global History is an Inherently Western Project’
• Global History and Microhistory: AHRC Network
• OxEmp – Bodleian Workshop: The Black Atlantic
• About
• How Epidemics End: A multidisciplinary project
• CONFERENCE: Identity Abroad in Central and Late Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
• Call for Papers: Identity Abroad conference
• How epidemics ends. New ways of learning from the past.  
• INGOs and the Long Humanitarian Century: Legacy, Legitimacy, and Leading into the Future
• Professor Sir Michael Aaronson
• The Ethiopian crisis – a historical context
• M. Larmer, 'Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt’
• New publication: 'Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt' by Miles Larmer
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Shruti Kapila (Cambridge),‘Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge),‘Colombo as Idea and Artefact'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Ria Kapoor (Manchester), 'The 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion: Making a Transnational Diaspora fit a World of Nation-States'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Su Lin Lewis (Bristol): ‘Intimate Solidarities: Mobility and Hospitality in the Women’s International Socialist Movement 1955-1970’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford), ‘Russian Turkestan and the First World War’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor John T. Sidel (LSE), ‘From Bohemia to Balintawak, Baku to Bandung, Antananarivo and Guangzhou to Điện Biên Phủ: Cosmopolitan Circuitries of Revolution in Southeast Asia’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford), ‘The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick), ‘Empire of the Sand? Persian Gulf “Piracy”, the French threat to India, and British imperial responses’
• JOINT SEMINAR: (OCGH & Modern European History Seminar) Professor Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin), Professor Rana Mitter (Oxford), 'Global-European Civil Wars’
• Damien Bérubé
• Shang Cheng
• Federica Costantino
• Madeleine Foote
• Benjamin Gladstone
• Patrick (Pak Hei) Hao
• Adrian Kwong
• Amita Mistry
• Adrita Mitra
• Kimberley Nicholson
• Rozen Whitworth
• Julie Partsch
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Round Table discussion on Gender on the Margins in Global History
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Graduate Student Presentations
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Siobhan Hearne (Durham University), ‘Life at the Social and Imperial Margins: The World of Prostitution in the late Russian Empire’
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Dr Jessica Hinchy (Nanyang Technological University), ‘Intimacy and Violence: The making of gendered margins and criminalized people in colonial India’
• SEMINAR (TGHS): Special event in conjunction with REAG (Race Equality Action Group)
• Dr Hunter Harris
• 2-Day Conference: Medical Identities in Global History
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Jamie Belich, ‘Urban Colonialism in Global History. From Ancient Athens to Modern New York via Early Modern Istanbul'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Kim Wagner, 'The most illuminating thing I have ever seen’: Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Hunter Harris, ‘The Problem of Legal Pluralism in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Lia Brazil, ‘International Law and War in the White British Empire: Ireland and South Africa 1899-1921’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Ismay Milford, ‘A Zambian not at Bandung and the uses of global biography’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor James Smithies, ‘Modes of Historical Analysis: Digital Approaches to Global and Imperial History’
• SEMINAR (GIH): Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
• SEMINAR (GIH): Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
• New Intellectual Histories of the Global South
• Oxford Centre for Global History Inaugural 'Anthony Gwilliam' Annual Lecture
• CALL FOR PAPERS: TGHS Postgraduate Conference: Encounters and Exchanges in a Global Past
• New Publication, Sacred Kingship in World History, edited by A, Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern.
• TGHS - 2022 Jan-Georg Deutsch Debate
• Oxford & Empire Thesis Fair - Histories of Race and Empire
• CONFERENCE: What Was Iberian Asia? New Perspectives on Spanish and Portuguese Exploration 1500-1700
• Connected Histories Twenty-Five Years Later
• 2022 Astor Lecture in Medical Humanities - Global Health Emergencies: from Ebola and Covid-19 to Monkeypox and Polio
• Interdisciplinary Roundtable Discussion - Global Health Emergencies: from Ebola and Covid-19 to Monkeypox and Polio
• Graduate Student and ECR Lunchtime Workshop: Global Health Emergencies and the Medical Humanities
• Oxford Centre for Global History Inaugural Annual Lecture: Professor James Belich, 'Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The Black Death and the Rise of Europe'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Yasmin Khan, 'Men of their time? The afterlife of the Indian Raj in Oxford'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Katherine Paugh, '“Disorders of Bestial Origin”: Race and Venereal Disease in the Atlantic World'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Debin Ma, 'Ideology and Economic Change: the Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th century China and Japan'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Jennifer Morgan, 'Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Harriet Mercer, 'Empire and the eighteenth-century origins of global temperature'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Pedro Aires Oliveira, '“Fellow Travelling” in the age of decolonisation: Basil Davidson and the independence struggles in Lusophone Africa'
• SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Geert Castryck, 'The De-Imperialization of Colonialism: Revisiting Colonial Reforms and Anti-Colonial Movements in the 1920s'
• Dr Axel Rudi
• Book Launch: China's Cold War Science Dipolomacy by Gordon Barrett
• Maldivian History: A drop in the Indian Ocean
• Dr Sultonbek Aksakolov
• Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Dani Ploeger, Anarchist Technologies and Stateless Sovereignty: Tactical Art for the Rojava Revolution
• Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Knut Rio, The Question of Indigenous Sovereignties
• Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Theodoros Rakopoulos, "Against realities on the ground": Untethered Sovereignty and Absentee Statecraft among Cypriot Refugees
• Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Power of Death and Sovereignty: A revisit from a Sacrificial Perspective (Nepal)
• Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Rebecca Bryant, Aporetic States: Or, What Non-Recognition Tells us About Sovereignty
• Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Igor Cherstich, A Nation without Secrets: Prophetic Revelation and (In)perfect Statelessness in Libya
• Seminar (Stateless Sovereignties): Zaheer Kazmi, Anarchist Imperium: Postcolonial Gods and Masters
• Enforcing Abolition and the Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century