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Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 14:00-16:00 on Fridays at the Gillis Lecture Theatre, Balliol College, unless otherwise specified
Convenor: Professor Faisal Devji
Please email any queries to mailto:suchintan.das@merton.ox.ac.uk
Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser:
Professor Faisal Devji
Timing: Fridays at 14:00-16:00, unless otherwise specified
Web Address:
https://global.history.ox.ac.uk/events-1?page-469181=1
Organising department: Faculty of History
Talks:
Friday 24 October 2025
"The traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution": 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law
Date: 24 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Natalya Vince (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 31 October 2025
Anti-apartheid in the international imagination: Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism
Date: 31 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 7 November 2025
Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World
Date: 7 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 14 November 2025
The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
Date: 14 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 21 November 2025
Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
Date: 21 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 28 November 2025
Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 5 December 2025
The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
Date: 5 December 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
