OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
30 October
09:00-10:00 Peter Borschberg (National University of Singapore), ‘Synergies, state-formation and trade: Melaka in the long 15th century’
10:15-11:15 Lorenz Gonschor (University of the South Pacific), ‘Interpolity relations in pre-colonial Oceania: From Indigenous thalassocracies and trade networks to a late but rapid integration into the world system’
11:30-12:30 Rémi Dewiere (University of Naples L’Orientale), ‘Clapping, ‘Kissing, Loving: Bodies and Emotions in Interpolity Diplomatic Relations in the Early Modern Sahel’
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:45-14:45 John Thornton (Boston University), ‘Interpolity and International Relations: West Central Africa, 1450-1700’
15:00-16:00 Edward Keene (University of Oxford), ‘Treaty-Making in the European “Society of Princes”, 1648-1789’
16:15-17:15 Hendrik Spruyt (Northwestern University), ‘Diplomacy and Interpolity Relations as a Shared Repertoire’
17:30-18:00 Final Observations and Conclusion
