Global History
Description: Seminars and events of interest to Oxford’s Centre for Global History
Talks:

Tuesday 3 December 2024

Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
Date: 3 December 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Sandipto Dasgupta (New School for Social Research, New York and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Nayanika Mathur (Oxford), Ankita Pandey (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South
Date: 3 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Beth Wilson (Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bending the Knee, Bending the Word: Rituals of Power in Russian-Central Asian Diplomacy
Date: 3 December 2024, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker : Dr Ulfat Abdurasulov (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Al-Damiri’s Life of Animals in the European-Ottoman Republic of Letters
Date: 3 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Simon Mills (University of Newcastle)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Euan Huey (Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 December 2024

The Future in the Archives: Catholic Minorities Preserving their Past in the Dutch Republic
Date: 4 December 2024, 11:15 - 12:45
Speaker s: Liesbeth Corens, Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 4 December 2024, 14:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: TORCH Meeting Room 11
Organiser: Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Indentured Urbanity and Constitutional Law
Date: 4 December 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Purba Hossain (York), Sahith Mandapalli (JNU)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Constructing Thought and Infrastructure: The Interplay of Ideology and Development across East Asia
Date: 4 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Huo Changwei (SOAS University of London), Ha Jaeyoung (Peking University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room
Organisers: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford)
Host: Simon Lam (University of Oxford)

Reimagining the Black Iberian Atlantic: A Roundtable Discussion of Chloe Ireton’s Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (CUP, 2024)
Date: 4 December 2024, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Chloe Ireton (UCL), Erica Field-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford), Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford), Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Engaging with the Contemporary World: A Multi-Religious Perspective
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Tomáš Halik (Charles University, Prague)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Methodologies of Commensuration: Poetry, History, and Knowledge
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Zdenka Stahuljak (UCLA)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Violent Seas: Experience, Representation, and Technology of Naval Warfare, 1665–1783
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Sarah von Hagen (Göttingen)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 December 2024

EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
Date: 5 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

Friday 6 December 2024

The Lessons From Canada's Assisted Dying Laws
Date: 6 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker : David Lametti
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, St Cross College, 61 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LZ
Organiser: Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Hosts: TBA

The CCP at the Grassroots
Date: 6 December 2024, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
Date: 6 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 January 2025

Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
Date: 21 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Krysten Blackstone (Salford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 January 2025

Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
Date: 24 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 January 2025

Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles
Date: 28 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : John Bird (Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 28 January 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, TORCH
Organiser: Andrew Moeller
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 January 2025

Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
Date: 31 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Leigh Jenco (LSE)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 February 2025

"Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
Date: 4 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 February 2025

Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
Date: 7 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Nandini Das (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
Date: 11 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Tom Bishop (Lincoln)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 February 2025

Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
Date: 14 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tara Alberts (York)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
Date: 21 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
Date: 25 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, TORCH
Organiser: Andrew Moeller
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
Date: 28 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
Date: 4 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 March 2025

Black American leisure time 20th century
Date: 11 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Tiffany M Gill (Rutgers)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 March 2025

History, Eugenics, and Human Enhancement: How the Past Can Inform Ethical Debates in the Present
Date: 24 March 2025, 9:00 - 10:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford
Organisers: Jose Porras (Faculty of History), Andrew Moeller, Alberto Giubilini (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2023 Astor Lecture in Global History
African Studies Seminar Series
American History Research Seminar
Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series
China Centre Conversation series
China Centre talks
China Studies Seminar series
Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
Early Modern World Seminar
Faith to Faith: Muslim and Christian Thought in the Modern Middle East and South Asia
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
History of War Seminar Series
Iberian History Seminar
Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empire
International History of East Asia Seminar
Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Centre for Global History events
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford China Reading Group
Oxford Martin School Events
Oxford Medical Humanities
Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
Slade Lectures 2023: African Artists in the Age of the Big Man
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures
TORCH: Britain and the Soviet Union: Early Cultural Encounters Network
TORCH: Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
Transnational & Global History Seminar