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Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
This seminar aims to provide a forum to discuss connective and comparative global intellectual history, bringing together scholars across different specialisms to generate productive conversations about the global nature of early modern and modern intellectual developments and their relationship to empire, religion, science, culture, and much more.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers:
Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford),
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Talks:
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
Editor:
Ross Moncrieff
