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

Friday 6 March 2026

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

Contextualizing the Modern Era of Vaccination
Date: 6 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Elena Conis (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Theatre
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Host: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)

Contextualizing the Modern Era of Vaccination
Date: 6 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Elena Conis (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Theatre
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2026

Between isolation and connectedness: understanding energy islands through the island-ness lens
Date: 9 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Yael Parag (Reichman University)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2026

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 Details: Room 20.513, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2026

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

The Land of Cannibals: War and Prophecy in Northern Brazil in the 16th Century
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

How Economic Reform Revived Totalitarian Rule in China
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Minxin Pei (Claremont McKenna College)
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)
Hosts: Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2026

Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
Date: 12 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Chris Mittelstaedt (University of Zurich)
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), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Transnational Propaganda and Ethnic Polarization: Experimental Evidence from Malaysia
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jeremy Siow (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
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 Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 March 2026

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

Monday 16 March 2026

China–Russia Relations and Allies and Subsidized Capacity Building
Date: 16 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro (Stanford 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)

Thursday 19 March 2026

Panel Discussion: 'Biodiversity and business'
Date: 19 March 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Mette Morsing (Said Business School), Mary Johnstone-Louis (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Prof Kathy Willis (University of Oxford), David Craig (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures), Jakob Stausholm (Blavatnik School of Government), James Airton (United Utilities)
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 April 2026

Conference: War and Citizenship
Date: 16 April 2026, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 May 2026

Islamic China: An Asian History
Date: 4 May 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Rian Thum (University of Manchester)
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: Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 May 2026

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

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Cultures of violence compared: France, Austria, Britain, Russia during the Napoleonic Wars
Date: 6 May 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Gundula Gahlen (FU Berlin)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 20 May 2026

One success and one failure: The Battle of Schladming and the Siege of Radstadt during the Great German Peasants' War 1524-6
Date: 20 May 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Robert Rebitsch (Innsbruck)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 June 2026

A Precedent for Nuremberg (1945-6): The Trial of Peter von Hagenbach (1474), history's first "War Criminal"?
Date: 3 June 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Michael Depreter (Leuven)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 June 2026

Do Old-Age Security Concerns Still Motivate Fertility in China?
Date: 4 June 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Yang Hu (University College London)
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 Zhe Wang (University of Oxford)

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