John-Paul Ghobrial - Oxford Talks

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John-Paul Ghobrial

Events this person is speaking at:

Friday 31 January 2020

14:15 - Stories of Survival: The Lives and Afterlives of Eastern Christian Manuscripts in the Early Modern World
John-Paul Ghobrial, Dr Celeste Gianni, Dr Feras Krimsti, Rosie Maxton, Lucy Parker (Lincoln College, University of Oxford), Dr Vevian Zaki (University of Oxford)
Seminar in the History of the Book

Tuesday 6 February 2024

17:00 - Special Event: Roundtable Discussion of Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions, in conversation with Professor Maurizio Isabella (QMUL)
Professor Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), John-Paul Ghobrial, Abigail Green, Giuseppe Marcocci, Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Oxford Centre for European History

Thursday 7 March 2024

16:00 - Roundtable Discussion of Mooring the Global Archive, in conversation with Professor Martin Dusinberre, Zurich
Jennifer Altehenger, John-Paul Ghobrial, Catherine Holmes, Giuseppe Marcocci, Jessica Fernandez Lara de Harada
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Events this person is hosting:

Wednesday 3 December 2025

11:00 - Modern Transimperial History: An Introduction
Prof Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 25 April 2017

14:00 - Ecclesiology and Politics between East and West
Various Speakers

Thursday 25 January 2024

11:15 - ‘A Syrian diasporic private archive: the Mishaqa family collection’
Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 1 February 2024

11:15 - ‘Calendars, hats and buttons: Marking authority, identity and time among Eastern Catholics at the end of the Ottoman Empire’
Dr Anaïs Massot (Leiden and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 8 February 2024

11:15 - ‘Bridging and branding the Holy Lands: Arabs from Greater Syria and Palestine in Europe (1900s-1950s)’
Professor Karène Sanchez Summerer (Groningen)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 22 February 2024

11:15 - ‘Daheshism, a religious movement for golden-age Beirut’
Dr Raphael Cormack (Durham)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 29 February 2024

11:15 - ‘The moving business: people smugglers, agents, and the work of Ottoman migration, c.1890-1914’
Professor Andrew Arsan (Cambridge)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 7 March 2024

16:00 - Roundtable Discussion of Mooring the Global Archive, in conversation with Professor Martin Dusinberre, Zurich
Jennifer Altehenger, John-Paul Ghobrial, Catherine Holmes, Giuseppe Marcocci, Jessica Fernandez Lara de Harada
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 23 May 2024

11:00 - The Sultan of New York: An Ottoman Armenian in Nineteenth-Century America
Nora Lessersohn (Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 24 October 2024

11:15 - Peasants, migrant workers, survivors and perpetual exiles: Ottoman Armenians
Coffee available from 11am.
Dr Talin Suciyan (Ludwig Maximilian)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 7 November 2024

11:15 - Changing subjects: Ottoman belonging in Armenian refugee print culture
Coffee will be served from 11am.
Dr Nanor Kebranian (Vienna)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 21 November 2024

14:00 - Sopon Bezirdjian and Theodore Birch (Iskender Bezirdjian): a father and son story of creative and political action in the Ottoman Empire, England, and France
Coffee will be served from 2pm.
Dr Alyson Wharton (Lincoln)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 5 December 2024

11:15 - The Constantinople realists and late nineteenth-century representations of the migrant worker from Ottoman Armenia
Coffee will be served from 11am.
Dr Vazken Davidian
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Thursday 27 February 2025

17:15 - Oliver Smithies Lecture: The Sudanese Giraffe Who Went to France: The Life and Afterlife of Zarafa, 1824-2024
Professor Heather Sharkey
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Wednesday 22 October 2025

11:00 - Race-making, Religion, and the Gendered “Business” of Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire
Dr Ceyda Karamursel (SOAS, University of London)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Wednesday 5 November 2025

11:00 - The House Always Wins: Arms Trafficking, Settler Capitalism, and the Making of Ottoman Jolan, 1878-1918
Dr Ayşe Polat (Oxford)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Wednesday 19 November 2025

11:00 - “My Copyist Pretends to Have Misunderstood Me”: Writing émigré Arabic journals in 1880s Paris
Dr Raphael Cormack (Durham)
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Tuesday 2 December 2025

16:00 - Was 1921-1941 the first Cold War? Testing a Hypothesis
Prof Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute)