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Name: Ross Moncrieff
All Souls College, Oxford
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/ross-moncrieff
Events this person is speaking at:
Friday 2 May 2025
Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
s:
Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford),
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Tuesday 17 October 2023
Towards a Global Intellectual History of the Global: European Texts, Indigenous Contexts
Date: 17 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Zoltán Biedermann (University College London)
Venue: All Souls - Wharton Room,
Organisers:
Jacob Fordham (University College, Oxford),
Hannah Dongsun Lee (St Edmunds Hall, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 31 October 2023
Turkish Turbans, Greek Ceremonies, Catholic Friends: A Global History of Protestant Accommodation
Date: 31 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Richard Calis (University of Utrecht)
Venue: All Souls - Wharton Room,
Organisers:
Jacob Fordham (University College, Oxford),
Hannah Dongsun Lee (St Edmund Hall, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 November 2023
Bodily Knowledge in Qing China: Anatomical "Translation" into Manchu and Mongolian?
Date: 21 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Sare Aricanli (Durham University)
Venue: All Souls - Wharton Room,
Organisers:
Jacob Fordham (University College, Oxford),
Hannah Dongsun Lee (St Edmund Hall, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 November 2023
The Scientific Revolution as Global History, 1200-1800
Date: 28 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
James Poskett (Warwick University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Jacob Fordham (University College, Oxford),
Hannah Dongsun Lee (St Edmund Hall, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Democracy in Early Modern East Asia? Japanese chivalric “solidarity” and Chinese imperial “meritocracy” in contrast and collaboration
Date: 15 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Kiri Paramore (University College Cork)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers:
Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 May 2024
The Disease of Money: Coins, Traders, and Agency in Twelfth-Century East Asia
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Mikael Adolphson (University of Cambridge)
Venue: K B Chen China Centre Library, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers:
Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 5 June 2024
Parades and Power in Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Japan: The Daimyo of Satsuma’s visits to a village of captured Korean potters within his domain
Date: 5 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Rebekah Clements (ICREA)
Venue: K B Chen China Centre Library, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers:
Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 June 2024
Still Chasing the Xiezhai: Mythology and Visual Representations of Justice in Chinese History
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 11 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Ernest Caldwell (Goldsmiths)
Venue: K B Chen China Centre Library, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers:
Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monsters on the Margins: Tales of the Extrahuman on the Periphery (and Outside) of Mediaeval China
Date: 11 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Justin Winslett (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers:
Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 15 October 2024
Bringing Attention to Tobacco: Health and Novelties in Early Modern North India
Date: 15 October 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Sonia Wigh (University of Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls - Wharton Room,
Organisers:
Euan Huey (Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
Date: 22 October 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
José Lingna Nafafé (University of Bristol)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers:
Euan Huey (Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 29 October 2024
Natural History and Imperial Portugal: Intellectual Frameworks
Date: 29 October 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Jorge Flores (University of Lisbon and TORCH International Fellow)
Venue: All Souls - Wharton Room,
Organisers:
Euan Huey (Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 5 November 2024
Kings, Lords, and Housebuilders: Portuguese and Chinese debates over the status of early modern Macau
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 5 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Jacob Fordham (LSE)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers:
Euan Huey (Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 26 November 2024
Productive Misunderstandings: Confraternities, Catholic liturgy and the reconfiguration of Andean native lordship in the early colonial period
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Isabel Yaya Mckenzie (EHESS)
Venue: All Souls - Wharton Room,
Organisers:
Euan Huey (Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 3 December 2024
Al-Damiri’s Life of Animals in the European-Ottoman Republic of Letters
Date: 3 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Simon Mills (University of Newcastle)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers:
Euan Huey (Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 February 2025
The Emotions of Empire: Love, Desire, and the Moral Psychology of Cosmic Resonance in the Lǚshi Chunqiu and Huainanzi
Date: 11 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Curie Virág (University of Warwick)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers:
Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford),
Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 17 February 2025
Kings, lords, and housebuilders: Portuguese and Chinese debates over the status of early modern Macau
Date: 17 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Jacob Fordham (LSE)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Euan Huey (Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 25 February 2025
Kingdom of Pines: State Forestry and the Making of Early Modern Korea, 1392-1910
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr John Lee (University of Durham)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers:
Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford),
Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 March 2025
Adachi and Amano: Local and National in the Wake of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
Date: 11 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Philip Garrett (Newcastle University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room, All Souls College
Organisers:
Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford),
Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 13 March 2025
Global religious change and patterns of ruler conversion, 1450-1850
Date: 13 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers:
Euan Huey (Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 29 April 2025
The Intercultural “Morality Books” (善書) of Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Converts
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Valentina Yang (KU Leuven)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers:
Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford),
Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 2 May 2025
Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers:
Euan Huey (Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 13 May 2025
Why Marco Polo did not go to China: Lessons for Art History
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Shane McCausland (SOAS)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers:
Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford),
Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers:
Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford),
Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 27 May 2025
The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers:
Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford),
Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers:
Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford),
Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 June 2025
The Physics of the Ki in Early Edo Japan (17-18th centuries): Materialising fate, nature and ethics
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Matthias Hayek (EPHE)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers:
Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford),
Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Reports of a Lesser Sign: The Intertwining of Strange Trees with Political and Religious Authority in Early Imperial China
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Oliver Hargrave (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers:
Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Transforming Witches and Monstrous Births: Peripheries of the human in the early modern Atlantic world
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Tania Bride (St Edmund Hall/Exeter College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers:
Euan Huey (Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 October 2025
The Global South in the East? Imagining a Transnational Political Subject in the Japanese Empire
Date: 14 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Yu Sakai (University of Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers:
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 October 2025
Thinking and Sensing with the Small: A Material History of Ideas in the Indian Ocean
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers:
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 4 November 2025
The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Nicolas Standaert (KU Leuven)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers:
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 November 2025
Translating the Image: Art, Science and Global Imagination in the first Islamic Description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbī / History of the West Indies)
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Sinem Casale (University of Minnesota)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers:
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 17 November 2025
Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Book Launch)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers:
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 20 November 2025
Writing an Intellectual History from below: Methodological and theoretical reflections from "Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge, 2025)”
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Chloe Ireton (UCL)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers:
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Barbarism, religion, and the tsars: Eighteenth-century Europe imagines the Treaty of Nerchinsk
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Shiru Lim (Leiden University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers:
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford),
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA