Global History
Description: Seminars and events of interest to Oxford’s Centre for Global History
Talks:

Wednesday 4 February 2025

Worlds of Islam: a global history
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor James McDougall (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mark the Deacon: The Life of Porphyrius of Gaza (in collaboration with Translated Texts for Historians and LUP)
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Claudia Rapp (Vienna), Michael Whitby (Birmingham)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 February 2025

This is What we Must Transform First: Translation and Imperialism in Taiwan (1935-1947)
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : TBC
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

God and Silicon Valley: The Place of Religion in the Development of AI
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Andrew Davison (Christ Church, University of Oxford), Bartek Papiez (Big Data Institute, Oxford)
Venue: Reuben College,
Venue Details: Reuben College (Lecture Theatre)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 February 2025

Bureaucracies of Violence: Asians leaving Uganda in 1972
Date: 6 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Ria Kapoor (QMUL)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 February 2025

The Case for India: Restating Eighteenth-Century Oriental Despotism from a History of Knowledge Perspective
Date: 10 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Stéphane Van Damme (ENS Paris/MFO), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Objects of Informal Diplomacy: Gift-Giving and Cultural Exchange between Tudor England and the Italian peninsula, 1500-1550
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker : Teresa Callaioli (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Panel Discussion: 'Measuring what matters: biodiversity metrics for business and finance'
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Prof Nathalie Seddon (Director, Nature-based Solutions Initiative), Dr Elizabeth Boakes (RSPB Conservation Science Monitoring Team), Prof Andy Purvis (Natural History Museum, London), Prof Kate Jones (University College London), Prof Mark Blaxter (Wellcome Sanger Institute), Prof Anjali Goswami (DEFRA)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 February 2025

Imperial Circulations: Climate Knowledge, Port Labor, and Material Worlds
Date: 11 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Cherry Briggs (Independent Researcher), Alison Bennett (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.513, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Cold War Migration to East Asia (Online)
Date: 11 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Xiang Fang (Macau University of Science and Technology)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: The Oxford China Centre, Lucina Ho Seminar Room - ONLINE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dominican Gifts of Mesoamerican Things in Early Modern Italy: Circulation and Reception
Date: 11 February 2026, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Davide Domenici (University of Bologna)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hajj and the Art of Pilgrimage
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sir Nasser Khalili (Khalili Foundation)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Excavations of the Church of St Polyeuktos at Sarachane Revisited
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Pamela Armstrong (Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mercenaries for Peace: Masculinity, Internationalism, and Pleasure on the Front Lines of Peacekeeping
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Margot Tudor (City)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 February 2025

In the Name of "La ética judeocristiana": On Latin America’s New Right and its Support of Israel (1973-2023)
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Daniel Kressel (Koch History Centre, Oxford)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 February 2025

Italian Fascism, the Holy See and the Nationalist Government During the First Apostolic Delegation to China (1922-1933)
Date: 13 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Chiara D'Auria (UNISA)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 February 2025

Dependent Labour in the Late Antique Near East
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix-Marseille)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transnational Japan in War and Fashion (Hybrid)
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Fanny Cornu (Edinburgh), Lian Huiqi (Korea)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: The Oxford China Centre, Lucino Ho Seminar Room, (HYBRID)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imams and patrons: service provision by Islamic non-state actors
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 February 2025

Not all Anthropocenes are the same: Politics , utopias, dystopias and futures in Amazonia
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Susanna Hecht (UCLA)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Politics in the Peripheries: The Spatial and Relational Dimensions of China’s ‘Democratic Parties and Groups'
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Henrike Rudolph (University of Göttingen)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 February 2025

The Valley Children: How collaborative creative practice can help us make sense of predictive genomics
Date: 20 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Learning centre (00.018)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Date: 20 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : David Lambert (Warwick)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2025

Emotions in the Politics of Water: China–India Tensions over Tibetan Rivers
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Antonina Łuszczykiewicz-Mendis (Jagiellonian University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Josh Hollands (UCL)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Competition or Integration? Urban and Princely Diplomacy at times of Civil War in the Burgundian Low Countries (1380s vs. 1480s)
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker : Michael Depreter (UC Louvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 February 2025

Transnational Trade & Labour History
Date: 25 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Camille Neufville (University of Strasbourg), Amrit Deol (California State University, Fresno)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Old Customs and the Contest for Jurisdiction over Jews and Muslims in Late Medieval Iberia
Date: 25 February 2026, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Rodrigo Garcia-Velasco (UCL)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From divine sovereignty to national legitimacy: transformations in the theology of political Islam
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jocelyn Cesari (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mapping Unholy Places in Late Antiquity
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Robert Wiśniewski (Warsaw)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reading Power in Chosŏn Korea's Laws and Gardens (online)
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Wing Shan Chan (Esme) (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Zexing Zheng (Seoul National University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: The Oxford China Centre, Lucina Ho Seminar Room - ONLINE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Male Bodies for the Fatherland: Invalidity and Self-Mutilation in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker s: Julia Heinemann (Antwerp), Chair: Peter Wilson
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2025

Chile’s Neoliberal Nationalization: How a Dictator Spooked Copper Investors, 1974-1989
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Margarita Fajardo (LAC/OSGA, Oxford, and Lawrence College, USA)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

An Interfaith Discussion on the Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
Date: 26 February 2026, 19:15 - 20:15
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 February 2025

Fascist India: Race, Caste and Hindutva [Book Talk]
Date: 27 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Music and the Medical Humanities
Date: 27 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Host: TORCH (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2025

Midshipmen Moralists: Jimmy Carter, H. Ross Perot, and the Enduring Mugwump Tradition
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Bruce Schulman (Boston University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2025

Transnational ties of faith: Imdadullah’s letters and writings from the Hijaz during the late-19th century
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ubiquitous and Universal? Rebellion and State Formation between Byzantium and Early Islam
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Alasdair Grant (Hamburg)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Putting nature on a path to recovery: how are we doing?
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr David Cooper (Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2025

Ma mère as Journal intime and Sheng Cheng’s Journey of Self-Realization in France
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)

Black Monserrat: Race, Migration, and Real Estate in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Michael Goebel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book talk - 'The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)'
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Maximilian Kasy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 March 2025

Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2025

Investigations of Women’s Suicides in the County of Henneberg: 1590-1612
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Louisa Bergold, Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"A Happy, Angry Man"? John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of Black History in Public
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tom Cryer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Personal correspondence and early modern diplomacy
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker s: Vladislav Rjéoutski (German Historical Institute, Paris), Vladimir Somov (Independent Researcher)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2025

Postgraduate Presentations
Date: 11 March 2026, 10:00 - 14:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
Date: 11 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 11 March 2026, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile (Sorbonne)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Leviathan's health: state capacity and epidemics from the Black Death to Covid
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Unbecoming Roman: Performative Ethnicity and Panspermía in the Byzantine World c.1190-1235
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Nathan Websdale (Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Late Qing China and the Negotiation of Global Knowledge and Order (Hybrid)
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Leo Shen (Cambridge), Yuxuan Zhou (Geneva)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: The Oxford China Centre, Lucina Ho Seminar Room, HYBRID
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 March 2025

Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
Date: 13 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 May 2025

Toward a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
Date: 5 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Peter Burke (Cambridge), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Old Dining Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2023 Astor Lecture in Global History
2025 Astor Lecturer events
African Studies Seminar Series
American History Research Seminar
Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series
China Centre Conversation series
China Centre talks
China Studies Seminar series
Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
Early Modern World Seminar
Faith to Faith: Muslim and Christian Thought in the Modern Middle East and South Asia
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
History of War Seminar Series
Iberian History Seminar
Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empire
International History of East Asia Seminar
Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Centre for Global History events
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford China Reading Group
Oxford Martin School Events
Oxford Medical Humanities
Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
Slade Lectures 2023: African Artists in the Age of the Big Man
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures
TORCH: Britain and the Soviet Union: Early Cultural Encounters Network
TORCH: Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
Transnational & Global History Seminar