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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
• Callum Kelly
• Conor Meleady
• Danish Khan
• Eamonn Gearon
• Eiko Honda
• Evan Matsuyama
• Frances O'Morchoe
• Gregory Hynes
• Harriet Mercer
• Joel Butler
• Katherine Erickson
• Matthew Woolgar
• Michael Joseph
• Natalie Cobo
• Nelson So
• Olivia Durand
• Philippe-Andre Rodriguez
• Priya Atwal
• Shahnawaz Raihan
• Taha Mehmood
• Yu Sakai
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Constituting Boundaries: Identities, Polities, and Colonial and Postcolonial Constitution-Making, 1776-2019
• 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
• 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’
• 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
• Alexander Morrison publishes an edited volume on the 1916 Revolt in Russian Central Asia
• Kai Won Tsang
• Professor Andrew Thompson
• What have we forgotten about globalization?