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

Friday 25 April 2025

Governing Digital China
Date: 25 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

A Kerala Pilgrimage Approaches Its Centenary - why it matters for South India and the wider world
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Alex Gath (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organiser: Andrew Moeller (Kellogg)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Back to the future? The promise and peril of historical analogies in AI governance
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Julia Morse (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: gordon.barrett@history.ox.ac.uk, Professor Erica Charters
Hosts: TBA

The Economy of the Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective, 1500-1800
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Selecting, Arranging, Dressing and Aging the Saints in Ravenna’s S. Apollinare Nuovo
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, 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

Thursday 1 May 2025

Exploitation in the Bedchamber: Maidservants in Late Ming Erotic Novels
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

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

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

Tuesday 6 May 2025

The Modern Life of Sanskrit: An Encounter with Psychoanalysis
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Ananya Vajpeyi (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern Ciphers Roundtable
Date: 6 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker s: Dr Ioanna Iordanou (Oxford Brookes), Giovanni M Pala, Antonio Pattori, Dr Tracey Sowerby, Chair: Professor Filippo de Vivo
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Castes and Regions: The Socio-Economic Decline of Muslims in Contemporary India
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christophe Jaffrelot (Kings College, London)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tepekozis: A Medieval Cyclops Story in Pharasiot (Asia Minor Greek)
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Mark Janse (Ghent)
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 8 May 2025

China Studies Seminar
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Iza Ding (Northwestern University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Marya Hannun (University of Exeter)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Host: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

AI and the future of work in developing countries
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Pablo Egaña-delSol (UAI Business School)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty in Muslim Societies
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Ali Allawi (Former Minister of Finance, Defense, and Trade of Iraq)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pro Meliori et pro Utilitate Terre: Venetian Crete and the Exploitation of the post-Byzantine Aegean
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Lorenzo Saccon (Wolfson College, 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

Thursday 15 May 2025

Public Service, Party-State: Teaching, Gender, Power, and Memory in China, 1940s-1980s
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Joseph Lawson (Newcastle University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Hemangini Gupta (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
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 Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

How Do You Solve a (Diplomatic) Problem like Poland? Polish-Lithuanian Political Culture and Diplomacy in the late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker s: Dr Anna Kalinowska (Polish Academy of Sciences), Chair: Dr Tracey Sowerby
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Building State Capacity in Fragile States
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rhetoric and Reality in the Imperial Orations of Niketas Choniates
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Alicia Simpson (American College of Greece)
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

Monday 26 May 2025

Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
Date: 26 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Host: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Empire of Trebizond: The State of Research and Possible Future Directions
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Rustam Shukurov (IMAFO, Vienna)
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 29 May 2025

A Confucian Academy in 21st Century Hebei: Rethinking 'truth' in Chinese Religion
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gareth Breen (LSE)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Host: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)

Italian Renaissance Cryptography
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker s: Professor Marcello Simonetta (Medici Archive Project/NYU Florence), Chair: Antonio Pattori
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Iran’s Crisis of Governance
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

John Tzetzes and the Heritage of Hephaistion: Transmission, Critique, and Innovation in Byzantine Treatises on Metrics
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Giuseppe Mendicino (Milan)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and onlin via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Rangoonwala Fellows: Development and Displacement in Pakistan
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, 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

Thursday 12 June 2025

‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Special OCBR lecture - The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, 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

This list contains talks from the following series:
2023 Astor Lecture in Global History
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 Early Modern 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