Download TGHS Hilary Term 2021 programme
Seminars will take place on Tuesdays, 17:00-18:30 on Zoom, except for Week 4.
Week 1 (Tuesday 19th January)
Open Round Table Discussion Topic: Global History in the Making: Coups, Covid and Conspiracies
Week 3 (Tuesday 2nd February)
Graduate Student Presentations - Identity
An Art of Intimations: Mashhadi Marriage Contracts of the ‘Jadīd Al-Islām’ - Rhea Stark, University of Oxford
The Emergence of Transnational Chineseness in Early-Twentieth-Century Hong Kong - Matthew Wong Foreman, Northwestern University
Week 4 - SPECIAL EVENT (17.00 Thursday 11th February)
Reading Group in collaboration with Race Equality Action Group (REAG) 'Race, Teaching, and the University: Historians' Approaches'
Week 5 (Tuesday 16th February)
Graduate Student Presentations - Global Childhood
The Roopkotha and the Bengali Middle-class Child - Exploring the Creation of a Popular Children's Genre Over the Turn of the 20th Century in Bengal - Raahi Adhya, School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London
The YWCA as a global connector in 1930s Japan: A case study of the Canadian Eiwa mission girls’ schools - Alexandria Dugal, University of Oxford
Week 6 (Tuesday 23rd February)
Dr Rachel Taylor, Oxford University - African Cosmopolitans: Nyamwezi Men in Precolonial and Colonial East Africa
Week 7 (Tuesday 2nd March)
Graduate Student Presentations - Colonialism on the Ground
Local-Regional relations and Colonial Villages of Indians in Dutch Brazil (1633-1654) - Lucas de Lima Silva, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil
Microcosms of colonial development: Italian and Ethiopian farmers at the crossroads of fascist empire building (1937-1941) - Michele Sollai, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva