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

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Climate Change and the Global South
Date: 30 May 2023, 12:00 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Mitali Mukherjee (Reuters Institute, Oxford), Pablo Mukherjee (English), Weishen Zeng (International Development, Oxford), Nikita Sud (International Development, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Resistance and Change in Pakistan’s Political Order
Date: 30 May 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Made In Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization
Date: 30 May 2023, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Peter E Hamilton (Lingnan University)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Gender and Diplomacy Roundtable
Date: 30 May 2023, 16:15 - 17:15 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford), Florian Kühnel (Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz), Kristine Dyrmann (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Current Graduate Research in Iberian History at Oxford
Date: 30 May 2023, 16:30 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Maddicott
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Great Terror in Soviet Uzbekistan: Mechanisms, Methods and Means
Date: 30 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture room 4
Organisers: Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre, Faculty of History, TOSCCA/ONGC (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

The Myth and Facts of China's Public Surveillance System: Evidence from the Government Procurement Contracts
Date: 31 May 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Professor Pinghan Liang (Sun Yat-sen University)
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 Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)

Institutions, Guilds, and Economic Prosperity
Date: 31 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Prof Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Counter Memories: Photographs of Empire in National Trust Country Houses
Date: 1 June 2023, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Rebekah Hodgkinson (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Framed by the Archive: Maoist Revolution and the Case of Merchant Zha, 1949‒1952
Date: 1 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Professor Brian DeMare (Tulane University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Dr Yi Lu (University of Oxford), Dr Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford), Dr Giulia Falato (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Shah, the Synaxarion, and the Seventeenth Century: Silenced Sources, Textual Transmission, and “Aesthetic Decline” in Early Modern Armenian Books
Date: 1 June 2023, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Erin Pinon (Princeton University)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Harold Lee Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cuba: An American History
Date: 1 June 2023, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Ada Ferrer (New York University), Discussent: Alan Knight (Latin American Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford OX2 6LY
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Warfare and European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450-1850
Date: 1 June 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Louis Sicking (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Leiden)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

History, Tradition, and Ethics in Late Imperial Thought
Date: 2 June 2023, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

TGHS Annual Graduate Conference: Diaspora: Identity & Belonging (Day 1)
Date: 5 June 2023, 9:00 - 19:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
Venue Details: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87089101586?pwd=UEZqaHArbWdBLzYvR2Y5QzlSNHB3QT09
Organisers: Madeleine Jane (University of Oxford), Adrita Mitra (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Keeping Time in Byzantium: Temporal Imagery and Thought in the Calendars of Later Byzantium
Date: 5 June 2023, 12:30 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Peter Boudreau (McGill University)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“His Soul was a Bird of the Divine Throne”: Persian Inscriptions on Mughal Imperial Tombs and Mosques
Date: 5 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : A. Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

An Introduction to and Revisionist Critique of the Case (案) as Historical Source and Administrative Artefact in Local Jurisdictions of the Late Empire
Date: 5 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Maura Dykstra (Yale University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Dr Yi Lu (University of Oxford), Dr Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford), Dr Giulia Falato (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Yi Lu (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

TGHS Annual Graduate Conference: Diaspora: Identity & Belonging (Day 2)
Date: 6 June 2023, 9:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Mure Room
Organisers: Madeleine Jane (University of Oxford), Adrita Mitra (Oxford)
Hosts: Adrita Mitra (Oxford), The Oxford Centre for Global History, Centre for Global History

Evolving Traditions: Networks of Empire and the Changing Economies of Islamic Intellectual Production in East Africa (c. 1800-1945)
Date: 6 June 2023, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Scott Reese (University of Hamburg)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Do Seeds Fire up the Belt and Road Initiative? The Politics of the Diffusion of Chinese Crop Seeds in Tajikistan
Date: 6 June 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Irna Hofman (Oxford)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture room 4
Organisers: Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre, Faculty of History, TOSCCA/ONGC (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Economic Stabilization in Post-war China, 1945-1949
Date: 7 June 2023, 12:45 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Man-Sing Cheung (Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Sino-US Relations: A Historical Perspective from the Pearl River Delta
Date: 8 June 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Professor John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Dr Yi Lu (University of Oxford), Dr Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford), Dr Giulia Falato (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

On the other side of silence - in conversation with Hrair Sarkissian
Date: 8 June 2023, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Hrair Sarkissian
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Eccles Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Malcolm Deas Annual Seminar - La Regeneración: itinerario de la más polémica transformación política de la República (Colombia, 1875-1886)
Date: 8 June 2023, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila (Universidad del Externado, Colombia)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford OX2 6LY
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Race and Racialisation in Contemporary China
Date: 9 June 2023, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Between the 'self' and the 'other': the case of the gasmouloi in Late Byzantium
Date: 12 June 2023, 12:30 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Jack Dooley (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

CANCELLED - Red Maulanas: Islam and the Left in South Asia
Date: 12 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Letters, Larceny and Leaks: Diplomatic Mailbags and Political Communication During the Thirty Years War
Date: 13 June 2023, 16:15 - 17:45 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Filippo de Vivo (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

The White Ethiopian Girl: Genealogy of the Western Aversion to Miscegenation
Date: 14 June 2023, 16:30 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Jean-Frédéric Schaub (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Making Kyiv/ijów/Kiev Russian: heritage and memorialization as techniques of imperial integration in the nineteenth century
Date: 14 June 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Andreas Schonle (Bristol)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

IR Alchemists and the History Trap
Date: 14 June 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Brian Linn (Texas A&M)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

On the Idea of Freedom in Modern African Political Philosophy
Date: 15 June 2023, 15:30 - 17:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture theatre
Organiser: African Studies Centre (University of Oxford)
Host: Miles Larmer (University of Oxford)

China’s Law of the Sea
Date: 15 June 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Isaac B Kardon (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Dr Yi Lu (University of Oxford), Dr Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford), Dr Giulia Falato (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)

Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism
Date: 15 June 2023, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Margaret Power (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford OX2 6LY
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Chinese Foreign Policy (II)
Date: 16 June 2023, 14:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

Title to be confirmed shortly
Date: 19 June 2023, 12:30 - 14:00 (Monday, 9th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Rachel Catherine Patt (Princeton University)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
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
Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Latin American History Seminar
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
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford China Reading Group
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