• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Yasmin Khan , Andrew Thompson
• Timing: Fridays at 16:00, unless otherwise specified
• Web Address: http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/research/period/global-and-imperial-history.html
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Friday 16 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘”Telling the natives what they need to know”: British institutions and the pursuit of an imperial role at the end of empire’
  Sarah Stockwell (KCL)

Friday 23 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Accounting for the Great Divergence’
  Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘White Revolutions: The Making of the Dairy Industry in Settler Australia’
  Yoriko Otomo (SOAS)

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Global Economic Development and the Anthropocene’
  Gareth Austin (Geneva)

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The capital and slavery. London and the Atlantic slave trade 1670-1770'
  Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh)

Friday 20 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Failure of the Bank of Bombay in 1868 and the concept of ‘difference’: Between the City of London and the Bazaar of Bombay’
  Stuart Sweeney (OCGH, Oxford)

Friday 27 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Law and the economy in colonial India’
  Tirthankar Roy (LSE)

Friday 4 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Protectionism, the Ottawa accords, and British interwar trade: some preliminary findings’
  Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford)

Friday 22 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘”Dead men naked”: Livingstone, memorialisation and British colonial rule in central Africa’
  Joanna Lewis (LSE)

Friday 29 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 'The 'Lonrho Affair' and the Late Colonial World'
  Andrew Cohen (Kent)

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Snapshots of Empire: Imperial governance everywhere and all at once’
  Alan Lester (Sussex)

Friday 12 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Patrolling and Controlling: Surveillance, Violence and State Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Colonies’
  Richard Hill (Victoria University Wellington; OCGH Visiting Scholar)

Friday 19 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Legal culture, trade and inter-imperial circulation : a mid 18th century Atlantic case’
  Marie Houllemare (Amiens / Institut Universitaire de France / OCGH Visiting Scholar)

Friday 26 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Politics and Technology’
  Giacomo Macola (Kent)

Friday 4 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  TBA

Friday 11 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  TBA

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'Anti-Colonial Rebellion during the First World War: The French Empire in Indo-China’
  Jonathan Krause (Oxford)

Friday 21 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The Military Revolution and European Global Expansion’
  Dr Peter Wilson (All Souls College)

Friday 28 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Eighteenth-century Empires at War: Managing Knowledge in Franco-British Imperial Wars’
  Erica Charters (Wolfson, Oxford)

Friday 4 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The Impact of World War One on British Imperial Relations’
  Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s, Oxford)

Friday 11 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Voices from the 1915 Chilembwe Rising in Nyasaland’
  John McCracken (Stirling)

Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘‘A Band of Mothers’. The Mothers Union and Global Solidarities amongst Anglican Women during the First World War’
  Adrian Gregory (Pembroke, Oxford)

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Postwar China and the Making of Modern World Order, 1945-50’
  Rana Mitter (St Cross, Oxford)

Friday 2 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: ‘The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa, 1960-1999’
  Miles Larmer (St Antony’s, Oxford)

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Mobilizing Free China: mass lines, new deals, and the problem of legitimacy on early Cold War Taiwan’
  Tehyun Ma (University of Sheffield)

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Reform-oriented Sufi orders in South Asia: local and global connections’
  Moin Nizami (OxCIS)

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Bringing a girl from the village: domestic service and gender relations in post-colonial Africa’
  Sacha Hepburn (IHR, University of London)

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Rethinking American Empire’
  Tony Hopkins (University of Cambridge)

Friday 17 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘At the edge of empires: the modern nation, ex-colonial milieu and transnationalism of the Chinese in Port of Spain, Trinidad, from the 1930s to the 1960s’
  Setsuko Sonoda (University of Hyogo)

Friday 24 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘From the periphery to oblivion’
  John Darwin (Nuffield College, Oxford)

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations (D.Phil.)
  Various Speakers

Friday 10 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations (M.St.)
  Various Speakers

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 'The British World and the Arid World'
  Robert Fletcher (Warwick)

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 'The Adamsons, Born Free and the late colonial era: images that changed the animal world'
  William Beinart (Oxford)

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 'Empire Forestry, famines and communities; Eastern India in the nineteenth and twentieth century'
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Mining and Environmental Change in African History
  Gavin Bridge (Durham), Deborah Bryceson (Edinburgh), Iva Peša (Oxford), Corey Ross (Birmingham)

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 'The Amerikan Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s'
  David Moon (York)

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 'A Thirsty Empire: Water Scarcity in the British Indian Ocean World 1850-1945'
  Ruth Morgan (Monash)

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Waiting for the barbarians: what archaeology has to say about southern hemisphere equestrians
  Peter Mitchell (Oxford)

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 'The Imperial Zoo. The commodification of wildlife, colonial propaganda, and transimperial conservationism (London, Paris, and Antwerp zoos, nineteenth century-ca. 1960)'
  Violette Pouillard (Ghent)

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - ‘An unnavigable valley: trade and sovereignty in the forest of Borneo, c. 1878-1938’
  Shinobu Majima (Gakushuin)

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - 'Duncan Sandys and Decolonisation'
  Please note change in programme due to speaker illness.
  Dr Peter Brooke (Wolfson, Oxford)

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Land and the origins of British India’
  John Marriott (Oxford)

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - ‘“Among these incongruous battalia, are represented the hopes of the world”: gold rushes and global history’
  Benjamin Mountford (La Trobe), Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Africa and Decolonisation workshop
  Various Speakers

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - ‘The politics of the public sphere: print culture in colonial Lagos, 1880s-1940s’
  Katharina Oke (Oxford)

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations (D.Phil.)
  Various Speakers

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations (M.St.)
  Various Speakers

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - ‘War/Time: Global Histories of a Local Conflict in the Horn of Africa’
  Richard Reid (St Cross, Oxford)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Celebrating Religious Diversity: Early Modern Russia and the Power of Typological Thinking’
  Valerie Kivelson (Michigan)

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Locating the Silk Road(s) in History and Today’
  Valerie Hansen (Yale)

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Knowledge Production in Colonial and Post-colonial History
  In association with the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ ERC funded project.
  Various Speakers

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - ‘The First World War and the Reimagination of Empire in the British and French Caribbean’
  Michael Joseph (Pembroke, Oxford)

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Comparing Russian Settler Colonialism’
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Debating the Great Divergence from the Demise of the Ming (1618-44) to the Industrialization of Western Europe (1756-1846)’
  Patrick O’Brien (St Antony’s, Oxford)

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Empire of Accumulation: Consumer Value and the Labor Question in British and American Nineteenth Century Expansion
  Bronwen Everill (Cambridge)

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Global science, national horizons: paleontology, astronomy and Antarctic research in South Africa’
  Saul Dubow (Cambridge)

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Redefining the Caliphate: Indian Pan-Islamism in the early twentieth century’
  Faridah Zaman (Somerville, Oxford)

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Cash Rules: Money and the British Empire in the Age of Revolutions’
  Andrew Edwards (Brasenose, Oxford)

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - ‘The Colonization of Elephants in the Making of Modern Malaya, c.1500-1900’
  Faizah Zakaria (Nanyang Technological University)

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Broadcasting Decolonisation: The Radio Boom and the End of Empire
  Dr Peter Brooke (Wolfson, Oxford), Professor Simon Potter (Bristol), Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (UCL), Stephen Hocking (Department for Continuing Education, Oxford), Dr Massoumeh Torfeh (School of Oriental and African Studies)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Physicians, agents and collectors: the importation and study of natural specimens from the Middle East in seventeenth-century Europe
  Federica Gigante (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Global Struggles and Africa’s Cold War
  Professor David Anderson (University of Warwick)

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “You taught me language and my profit on it is I know how to curse”: Shakespeare’s The Tempest in postcolonial criticism and performance
  Dr Cheryl Birdseye (Oxford Brookes)

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The “federal moment” in East Africa: regionalism and the nation-state, 1958-1963
  Dr Chris Vaughan (Liverpool John Moores)

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 'The view from Ikoyi: negotiating late colonialism in Nigeria
  Dr Tim Livsey (Northumbria)

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Droughts, Pastoralists and Identities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Kenya: an Archaeological Perspective
  Professor Paul Lane (Cambridge)

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Global(izing) Africa: the case of economic history
  Professor Gareth Austin (Cambridge)

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution
  This seminar has been cancelled due to the industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham)

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - 'The Condition of Exile: Ghanaian Political Exile Networks in the Post-Independence Period
  Harriet Aldrich (St Hugh's, Oxford)

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - International treaties as imperial social contracts
  Professor Saliha Belmessous (University of South Wales)

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - "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
  Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne)

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Materials, design and revolution in the making of modern China
  Dr Jennifer Altehenger (Merton College, Oxford)

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution
  Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham)

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Napoleon III, the invasion of Mexico, and mid-Victorian liberalism
  Dr Alex Middleton (Christchurch College, Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Revolution, Empire and Entangled History in the Southern Caribbean
  Dr Dexnell Peters (Exeter College, Oxford)

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  These presentations will be from 10:00-17:00
  Various Speakers

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate students research presentations
  Postponed to Trinity Term
  Various Speakers

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Human Rights of Political Detainees — Nelson Mandela, Robben Island and the International Committee of the Red Cross
  Professor Andrew Thompson (Nuffield, Oxford)

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Escaping the Global Event: India, Islam and the Great War
  Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony's, Oxford)

Friday 30 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Chinese Partition: Islamophobic Inheritances in the Legacies of the Great Northwestern Rebellion, 1860-1874
  Dr Hannah Theaker (St Anne's, Oxford)

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Eric Williams Revisited: The State, Protectionism, Slavery, and Industrialisation, 1700-1800
  Dr William Ashworth (Liverpool)

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Toussaint Louverture, the Black Spartacus of Saint-Domingue
  Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh (Balliol, Oxforfd)

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Revenge of the Commons: property, debt and collateral in the history of African financial capitalism
  Professor Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research)

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Ordering the East- publishers’ series and the invention of the oriental classic, 1878-1950
  Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - "Kin Beyond Sea": W E Gladstone on Liberalism, Empire, and America, 1846-1898
  Dr Graeme Thompson (Harvard)

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Bonds of Family
  Dr Katie Donington (London South Bank University)

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives
  Dr Nükhet Varlik (Rutgers University)

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Colonial public spheres, liberal thought and indirect rule in interwar Africa
  Professor Emma Hunter (Edinburgh)

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - “Stop the World”: The end of empire and the “break-up of Britain”
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Andrew Roth's End of Empire: An Unfinished History of Decolonization
  Professor Philip Murphy (School of Advanced Study)

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Empire and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
  Professor Krishan Kumar (Virginia)

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  TBA

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  TBA

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
  Dr Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Colombo as Idea and Artefact
  Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion: Making a Transnational Diaspora fit a World of Nation-States
  Dr Ria Kapoor (Manchester)

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Intimate Solidarities: Mobility and Hospitality in the Women’s International Socialist Movement 1955-1970
  Dr Su Lin Lewis (Bristol)

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Russian Turkestan and the First World War
  Dr Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - From Bohemia to Balintawak, Baku to Bandung, Antananarivo and Guangzhou to Điện Biên Phủ: Cosmopolitan Circuitries of Revolution in Southeast Asia
  Professor John T Sidel (London School of Economics)

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics
  Professor Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford)

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Empire of the Sand? Persian Gulf “Piracy”, the French threat to India, and British imperial responses
  Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)

Friday 21 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Urban Colonialism in Global History. From Ancient Athens to Modern New York via Early Modern Istanbul
  Professor Jamie Belich (Balliol College, Oxford)

Friday 28 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Problem of Legal Pluralism in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
  Dr Hunter Harris (Nuffield College, Oxford)

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The most illuminating thing I have ever seen’: Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906
  Dr Kim Wagner (QMUL)

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - International Law and War in the White British Empire: Ireland and South Africa 1899-1921
  Dr Lia Brazil (Nuffield College, Oxford)

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - A Zambian not at Bandung and the uses of global biography
  **THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED**
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Ismay Milford (Edinburgh)

Friday 25 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Modes of Historical Analysis: Digital Approaches to Global and Imperial History
  Professor James Smithies (KCL)

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History Inaugural Annual Lecture: Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
  Please note this seminar is at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College, 25 Banbury Road, but all other seminars will be in the Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street.
  James Belich (Oxford)

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Men of their time? The afterlife of the Indian Raj in Oxford
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)

Friday 28 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “Disorders of Bestial Origin”: Race and Venereal Disease in the Atlantic World
  Katherine Paugh (Oxford)

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Ideology and Economic Change: the Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th century China and Japan
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Debin Ma (Oxford)

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
  Jennifer Morgan (NYU)

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Empire and the eighteenth-century origins of global temperature
  Harriet Mercer (Cambridge)

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - "Fellow Travelling" in the age of decolonisation: Basil Davidson and the independence struggles in Lusophone Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Pedro Aires Oliveira (Instituto de História Contemporânea, Lisbon)

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The De-Imperialization of Colonialism: Revisiting Colonial Reforms and Anti-Colonial Movements in the 1920s
  Geert Castryck (Leipzig)

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Abolitionism and the Global Suppression of "Piracy" in the Nineteenth Century
  Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds)

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - From Anti-Slavery to East India Reform: Trans-Atlantic Abolitionism, British Colonial Philanthropy, and Empire in India, 1838-43
  Andrea Major (University of Leeds)

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Enforcing Abolition and the Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century
  Fabian Klose (Cologne)

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Local and the Coastal: How Slave-Ship Outfitters Understood Atlantic Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Anne Ruderman (LSE)

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - New World Royalists: Slavery and Inheritance in Plantation Jamaica
  Matthew Smith (UCL)

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Manifesting Colonial Collectivities: Black Women and Trauma in Mid-Colonial Mexico
  Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - GIH DPhil Presentations
  Please note change of date from 2 to 3 March
  Various Speakers

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - GIH MSt Presentations
  Various Speakers

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Writing a Global History of the End of Britain (Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture)
  Please note this session will take place at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia
  Professor Jane Burbank and Professor Fred Cooper (NYU)

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Moritz Mihatsch (Cambridge)

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The British Gunpowder Industry and the Making of the Global Firearm Frontier, 1600-1900
  Dr Nicholas Radburn (Lancaster)

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Libya’s Transition to Independence: Challenging the Paradigm of Competition between Italians and Tripolitanians
  Professor Antonio Morone (Pavia)

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Slavery and Industrialization
  Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick), Professor Patricia Hudson FBA

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Capitalism and Empire: Europe's Hinterlands and its Oceanic Empires
  Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Offstage Storm? Decolonization and the Politics of Democracy in Post-war Western Europe
  Professor Martin Conway (Oxford)

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Indigenous Rights in Settler Colonies
  Professor Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Post-War Economic Asianism? China, India and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, c. 1947-1950
  Dr Yui Chim Lo (Oxford)

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Lever Brothers' Plantations in the Pacific Islands, 1895-1942
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Unravelling the Enigma of Penis Captivus in Zimbabwe: A historical Odyssey of a Medical Mystery and Urban legend
  Dr Kudakwashe Chitofiri (Oxford)

Friday 16 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - A Prophet Disarmed: Islam, Insult, and Injury
  Professor Faisal Devji (Oxford)

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers

Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Writing the Indian Army and the Second World War
  David Omissi (Hull)

Friday 1 November 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
  Caroline Dodds Pennock (Sheffield)

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Erin O'Halloran (Cambridge)

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Picturing War: Art and Empire in the Late-Victorian Period
  Sean Willcock (Oxford)

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Empires and everyday cultural coexistence: the Nineteenth century Ottoman Empire in comparative perspective
  Nicholas Doumanis (Illinois Chicago)

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Empire of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Colonial Conquest in the Sahara
  Berny Sèbe (Birmingham)

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)

Friday 24 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)

Friday 31 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
  Leigh Jenco (LSE)

Friday 7 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
  Nandini Das (Oxford)

Friday 14 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  Tara Alberts (York)

Friday 21 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)

Friday 28 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)