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)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - An Environmental History of the Indian Ocean
  Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Hindutva and the Problem of Hinduism
  Luna Sebastian (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 1: Propagation
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 2: Apocalypse
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - Hotel Lux: Writing an Intimate History of the Comintern’s Moscow Dormitory, 1924-1929
  Maurice Casey (Queens, Belfast)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - "A Sea of Wealth": Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, the Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace
  Nicholas P. Roberts (Norwich University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Unsafe Harbour: A Political Ecology of Postwar Marseille
  Venus Bivar (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 3: Allurement
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 4: Language
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - Ernest Bevin (1881-1951): political biography and grand international narrative
  Anne Deighton (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Fishing for the Past: Histories of Maritime Archaeology and Anthropology in the Indian Ocean
  Tamara Fernando (Stoney Brook University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A Quest for Purity: vegetarianism between Europe, South Asia, and the United States (c. 1850–1957)
  Julia Hauser (Kassel)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 5: Enslavement
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Thinking about 1848
  Please note this lecture is on Tuesday 20 February at Worcester College
  Chris Clark
  Modern History Research Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 6: A new phase
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - France on Trial: the case of Marshall Petain
  Julian Jackson (QMUL)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Persianate Luxury: The Tangible and Intangible Legacy of the Indian Ocean Wine Trade
  Peter Good (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

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

• 17:00 - What are hate pictures against Jews? Understanding the visual history of Antisemitism
  Uffa Jensen (Technical University, Berlin)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - In Conversation: Robert Gildea & Jim Philips, 'Backbone of the Nation. Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85'
  Please note this discussion is on Wednesday 6 March at Worcester College
  Robert Gildea, Jim Philips
  Modern History Research Seminar

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Changing Shapes of European History: The Modern European History Seminar since the 1980s
  Martin Conway (Oxford), Tom Buchanan (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
  Jatin Dua (University of Michigan)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Cosmopolitan Graves: Thamboosamy Pillai and Legacy Making and Unmaking in British Malaya
  Julia Stephens (Rutgers University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

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

• 15:00 - Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat’s Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
  Ketaki Pant (University of Southern California)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

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

• 15:00 - A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875
  Phillip Gooding (McGill University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire