Department: Faculty of History
Talks:
Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
An Environmental History of the Indian Ocean
Date: 15 January 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge University)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser:
Itamar Toussia Cohen (Brasenose College)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
James Ford Lecture 1: Propagation
Date: 18 January 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Hindutva and the Problem of Hinduism
Date: 18 January 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Luna Sebastian (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Story of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire
Date: 24 January 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Jennifer Altehenger
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
James Ford Lecture 2: Apocalypse
Date: 25 January 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Hotel Lux: Writing an Intimate History of the Comintern’s Moscow Dormitory, 1924-1929
Date: 25 January 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Maurice Casey (Queens, Belfast)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
"A Sea of Wealth": Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, the Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace
Date: 29 January 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Nicholas P. Roberts (Norwich University)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser:
Itamar Toussia Cohen (Brasenose College)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
James Ford Lecture 3: Allurement
Date: 1 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Unsafe Harbour: A Political Ecology of Postwar Marseille
Date: 1 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Venus Bivar (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Ernest Bevin (1881-1951): political biography and grand international narrative
Date: 8 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Anne Deighton (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
James Ford Lecture 4: Language
Date: 8 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
Fishing for the Past: Histories of Maritime Archaeology and Anthropology in the Indian Ocean
Date: 12 February 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Tamara Fernando (Stoney Brook University)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
James Ford Lecture 5: Enslavement
Date: 15 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
A Quest for Purity: vegetarianism between Europe, South Asia, and the United States (c. 1850–1957)
Date: 15 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Julia Hauser (Kassel)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
Special Lecture: Thinking about 1848
Date: 20 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Chris Clark
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Conference Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
France on Trial: the case of Marshall Petain
Date: 22 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Julian Jackson (QMUL)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
James Ford Lecture 6: A new phase
Date: 22 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
Persianate Luxury: The Tangible and Intangible Legacy of the Indian Ocean Wine Trade
Date: 26 February 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 7th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Peter Good (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
What are hate pictures against Jews? Understanding the visual history of Antisemitism
Date: 29 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Uffa Jensen (Technical University, Berlin)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
In Conversation: Robert Gildea & Jim Philips, 'Backbone of the Nation. Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85'
Date: 6 March 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Robert Gildea,
Jim Philips
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Conference Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
The Changing Shapes of European History: The Modern European History Seminar since the 1980s
Date: 7 March 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Martin Conway (Oxford),
Tom Buchanan (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
Date: 23 April 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Jatin Dua (University of Michigan)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser:
Itamar Toussia Cohen (Brasenose College)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Cosmopolitan Graves: Thamboosamy Pillai and Legacy Making and Unmaking in British Malaya
Date: 6 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Julia Stephens (Rutgers University)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser:
Itamar Toussia Cohen (Brasenose College)
Hosts:
TBA
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
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