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

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat’s Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
Date: 20 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ketaki Pant (University of Southern California)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Itamar Toussia Cohen (Brasenose College)
Hosts: TBA

Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational US-China Relations
Date: 20 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

“We are religious, patriotic, and self-sacrificial”: Baniya Power, Privilege, and Wealth Anxieties in India
Date: 21 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

(Global) value chains in a changing world: challenges and opportunities
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Glenn Magerman (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB))
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organisers: INET Oxford (University of Oxford), Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Valedictory Lecture – A ‘Class’-Less Society Japan? How is Inequality Interpreted Without the Concept of Class?
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Post-Globalism and the Ulama: Contestation of Authority
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

If Hong Kong is really over
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Kim Wah Chung
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)

Creating the Louvre’s New Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art: Issues and Challenges in a Turbulent World
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Maximilien Durand (Musée du Louvre), Jannic Durand (Musée du Louvre)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Captain of the Roving Bandits: Spoken drama and the culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China
Date: 23 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Jeremy E Taylor (University of Nottingham)
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 Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 24 May 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 24 May 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Right-Wing Discourse in Online Chinese Spaces
Date: 24 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch – Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World
Date: 24 May 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford), Dr Lewis Bremner (University of Cambridge), Dr Chinami Oka (University of Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University), Joel Littler (University of Oxford), Dr Manimporok (Brown University)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Chinese Businessmen and the Economic Roots of American Cold War Power, 1938‒1955
Date: 27 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin-Maddison)
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 Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
Date: 28 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sight and Sound in Royal Ceremonial: The Chapel Royal and Cross-Confessional Diplomacy (1558-1625)
Date: 28 May 2024, 16:15 - 17:45 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Oscar Davies Patton
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Why hydrogen is of strategic importance to scale-up the energy transition
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Dirk Smit (Corporate Chief Scientist, Shell)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Migration: past, present and future
Date: 29 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins
Date: 29 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Max Gallien (University of Sussex)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Late Imperial China's Informal Connections to the World: Globalisation in the Networks Literati and the Commercial Settlement
Date: 29 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Dan Knorr (University of Cambridge), Zheng Chen (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, 1/F
Organisers: Yaxi Liu (University of Oxford), Kuldip Kaur Singh (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun, Simon Lam, Zhixia Jin
Hosts: Yaxi Liu (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford)

At the origins of raw materials diplomacy. Saltpeter trade in Renaissance Italy
Date: 29 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Fabrizio Ansani (Exeter)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 31 May 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Meeting Room 4
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Early Chinese Communism
Date: 31 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875
Date: 3 June 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Phillip Gooding (McGill University)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Itamar Toussia Cohen (Brasenose College)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Ethics, Law, and Humanities
Date: 4 June 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transnational Literary and Infrastructure Connectivity in Modern China
Date: 4 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Weikang Zhang (University of Oxford), Xinyi Chi (Durham University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, 1/F
Organisers: Yaxi Liu (University of Oxford), Kuldip Kaur Singh (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun, Simon Lam, Zhixia Jin
Host: Kuldip Kaur Singh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

The Fall of Kabul: Why It Happened and Why It Matters?
Date: 5 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sir Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

As if Heaven is Speaking: Astrology and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
Date: 6 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Lu Kou (Columbia University)
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 Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 7 June 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Meeting Room 4
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Joint Session with the Oxford Taiwan Reading Group
Date: 7 June 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea
Date: 10 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Diren Doğan (Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University)
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)

The role of a global multilateral development bank in the world today
Date: 10 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:15 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Samuel Munzele Maimbo (World Bank)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Courtly Marriage
Date: 11 June 2024, 16:15 - 17:45 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Hanna Sinclair, Max Diemer
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: A History
Date: 12 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reassessing Republican China and the Taiwan Strait Crises
Date: 12 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Yi-Chuan (Nicholas) Chiu (University of Oxford), Qiang Zhang (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, 1/F
Organisers: Yaxi Liu (University of Oxford), Kuldip Kaur Singh (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun, Simon Lam, Zhixia Jin
Hosts: Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford), Zhixia Jin (University of Oxford)

Compulsion, Compliance and Combat: New Perspectives on Napoleonic Conscription
Date: 12 June 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Graeme Callister (York St Johns)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

SPECIAL OCBR LECTURE Justinian: Between East and West
Date: 13 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Danson Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Medical Humanities PG-ECR Workshop
Date: 14 June 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organisers: Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Pub Social @ Gardeners Arms on North Parade
Date: 14 June 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA
Date: 20 June 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Thursday, 9th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Peter Robertson (University of Western Australia)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Biotechnologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Identity
Date: 17 October 2024, 9:00 - 17:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: St Luke's Chapel, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Women Behind the Few: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force in British Air Intelligence During the Second World War
Date: 20 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Sarah-Louise Miller (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
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
Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies 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