Friday 6 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
  Ian Johnson
  China Centre talks

Monday 9 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Book Launch: The Muslim Secular by Dr Amar Sohal
  Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge), Faisal Devji (University of Oxford), Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Hong Kong: Not Just Another Chinese City
  Vaudine England (Leiden University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - A City of Men? Youth Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India
  Shannon Philips (UEA)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - LAC Main Seminar Series: The Situational Dimension of Intersectional Inequalities in post-Covid Urban Public Spaces in Latin America
  Fraya Frehse (University of São Paulo)
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - The Well-Tempered Chase: Hunting, Emotions and Health in Early Modern Europe
  Valerio Zanetti (Oxford), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Arabic's Easternmost Frontier: Arabic Manuscripts, Sufism and Courtly Culture in Southeast Asia, 17th-18th Centuries
  Prof Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Literary Transmission as Political Action: Feng Menglong's Mountain Songs Compendium (c. 1650)
  Professor Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Portraits of the Reader during the Middle Byzantine Period
  Stratis Papaioannou (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Writing a Global History of the End of Britain (Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture)
  Please note this session will take place at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Jewish images of Sultanic power in the 18th and 19th centuries in Palestine, Syria and Iraq
  Professor Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - U.S. and European Legal Responses to Chinese Forced Labour
  Mr Aaron Halegua (Aaron Halegua PLLC)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories
  Pervez Hoodbhoy
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Forced Removal and the Politics of Refugee Recognition in the American Revolutionary War
  James Mackay (University of Edinburgh)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Towards a Global Intellectual History of the Global: European Texts, Indigenous Contexts
  Zoltán Biedermann (University College London)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History
• 17:00 - LAC Main Seminar Series: Social Movements in Latin America: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
  Federico M Rossi (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED))
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Didn’t You Promise Us A River? Looking For The 17th-Century Mississippi
  Please note this seminar is at 14:00-15:30
  Katherine Ibbett (Oxford), Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 14:00 - Empire & Exile
  Amita Mistry (Oxford), Julie Partsch (University of Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - The "Private" Side of Empire: Letters from the Portuguese Estado da Índia
  Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Beyond Self Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - SPECIAL OCBR LECTURE: Byzantine Princess Ruling Rus
  Adrian Jusupovic (The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
• 17:15 - From Pariahs to Influencers: Foreigners in the Russo-Ukrainian War
  Kacper Rekawek ((International Centre for Counter Terrorism (ICCT) – the Hague))
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia
  Professor Jane Burbank and Professor Fred Cooper (NYU)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Arabic Literature in a Post-Human Age
  Dr Teresa Pepe (University of Oslo, Norway)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Gehan Gunatilleke (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Unconventional Currents of Reform in Early Modern Italy
  Querciolo Mazzonis (Teramo), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - The Language of Religious Expression in the Islamic Culture of West Africa
  Prof Louis Brenner (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - More than “the last monument of Byzantine rule in Cyrenaica”: Taucheira in Late Antiquity
  Miranda Williams (Oxford), Tim Penn (Oxford), Ine Jacobs (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Spectres of Progress in a Northeast Asian Borderland
  Dr Ed Pulford (The University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Moritz Mihatsch (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The World is not a Place of Dwelling: Spiritual Creativity in the Arts of Contemporary Islam
  Professor Noah Saloman (Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Rising power, precarious citizens: Mobility and democracy in India after 1989
  Indrajit Roy (QEH, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - A History of Black Women Photographers in the Civil Rights Movement
  Emily Brady (University of Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Turkish Turbans, Greek Ceremonies, Catholic Friends: A Global History of Protestant Accommodation
  Richard Calis (University of Utrecht)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Rethinking the Renaissance, A Mediterranean Perspective
  Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - Business Interests, Global Networks, and the Trade in Enslaved Africans to Peru, 1580-1640: The Case of Manuel Bautista Pérez
  Linda Newson (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Significance of the Dome in Islamic Architecture
  Prof Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Future Perfect? The Ontology of the Future in Sidonius’ Imperial Panegyrics
  Michael Hanaghan (Australian Catholic University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
• 17:15 - Military Reform and the Movement of Ideas to and from the British Dominions, 1898-1914
  Doug Delaney (Canadian Royal Military College)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Latin American Centre Alumni London Networking 2023
  Bookings close on 20 October
  N/A
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The British Gunpowder Industry and the Making of the Global Firearm Frontier, 1600-1900
  Dr Nicholas Radburn (Lancaster)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Zanzibar's Liberation between the "Global 60s" and Local Politics
  Dr Amal Ghazal (Doha Institute, Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Majoritarian nationalisms and religion in South Asia
  Katharine Adeney (University of Nottingham)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Culture of Exposure
  Kaeten Mistry (UEA)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - ONLINE: Invisible Threads of Tradition: Refiguring Kinship and Knowledge in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1500
  Please note this seminar is online
  Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv), Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Power, Knowledge, and the Illusion of Control: Western Counterinsurgency in the Muslim World 1954-2014
  Dr Christian Tripodi (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Positions of Considerable Emolument: Cataloguing Greek Manuscripts in Oxford
  Georgi Parpulov (Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities), Dimitris Skrekas (University of London/Oxford University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Making Peace with the Devil: The Problem of Ending Just Wars
  Dr Elisabeth Forster (University of Southampton), Dr Isaac Taylor (Stockholm University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Libya’s Transition to Independence: Challenging the Paradigm of Competition between Italians and Tripolitanians
  Professor Antonio Morone (Pavia)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Pascal Menoret (Brandeis University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Globalizing East-Central Europe from the Ground Up: Minerals, Metals, and Mountains
  Suzanna Ivanic (Kent), Chair: Natalia Nowakowska
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - 1614, the World on the Thames: A Tentative Exercise in Global History and the History of Early Modern Empires
  Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (CNRS-LARHRA, Lyon)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Green Industrialization: Evidence from and for Muslim Societies
  Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Punitive Mutilation in Byzantine Law: The case of nose amputation in Byzantium and beyond
  Mike Humphries (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
• 17:15 - Caring Across Battlefields: Mapping Humanitarian Networks during the Global First World War
  Marina Perez de Arcos (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Slavery and Industrialization
  Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick), Professor Patricia Hudson FBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Single Motherhood, Celebrities, and Popular Culture in Egypt
  Dr Hanan Hammad (Professor of History and Chair of Women & Gender Studies at Texas Christian University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Migration, Caste, and the Figure of the 'Coolie' in Indian Diplomatic History
  Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - They Cry Liberty: Imperial Crisis and Revolution in Atlantic Africa
  Bronwen Everill (University of Cambridge)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Bodily Knowledge in Qing China: Anatomical "Translation" into Manchu and Mongolian?
  Sare Aricanli (Durham University)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - The German Peasants’ War (1524–1526): Facts, Reception History and New Approaches
  Thomas Müller (Wittenberg), Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Can international law make a difference in time of war?
  Sir Christopher Greenwood (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Greek Fathers in Print: the AGAPE Database and the Early Modern Patristic Editions
  Paolo Sachet (L’Institut d’histoire de la Réformation, Geneva)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Capitalism and Empire: Europe's Hinterlands and its Oceanic Empires
  Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What have the Arab Uprisings done to “Contemporary Arab Thought”?
  Professor Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Bureaucratic Protection and Foreign Policy Information Provision in China
  Dr Tyler Jost (Brown University)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Suffrage Skeptics and Realists: A History of Reluctant Endorsements of Woman Suffrage in the United States, 1840s-1920
  Helene Quanquin (Université de Lille)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Scientific Revolution as Global History, 1200-1800
  James Poskett (Warwick University)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Colliding Empires: Material Trajectories Across the Early Modern Western Mediterranean
  Ana Struillou (London), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - Accountability: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Negotiation of Power in Early Colonial Peru
  Laura León Llerena (University of Durham)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Translators, Patrons, Scholars: Greek Texts in Latin Translations from Production to Audience, ca. 1050–1350
  Peter Bara (The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
• 17:15 - The Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS: in lockstep for Hitler?
  Ben Shepherd (Glasgow)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
  This seminar will be held on Thursday, 30 November
  Prof Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Offstage Storm? Decolonization and the Politics of Democracy in Post-war Western Europe
  Professor Martin Conway (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
  Professor Yoav di Capua (The University of Texas at Austin)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - LAC Main Seminar Series: Book Launch: Business Power and the State in the Central Andes, Eds John Crabtree, Francisco Durand and Jonas Wolff
  John Crabtree (LAC), Jonas Wolff (The Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt)
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events