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

Monday 19 January 2025

History and Memory in Seventeenth Century Chinese Drama
Date: 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Wai-yee Li (Harvard University)
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: Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 January 2025

Reimagining Race in the US Military: Culture, Communication, and the Making of the Miami Experiment
Date: 20 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Beth Bailey (University of Kansas)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 January 2025

Mobile manuscripts: Arabic learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean
Date: 21 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Christopher Bahl (University of Durham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organiser: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Republic of Translators: Translating from Greek and Arabic into Latin in the Twelfth-Century Mediterranean
Date: 21 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : John Mulhall (Purdue)
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 22 January 2025

The (missing) third pillar: why climate policy needs to get serious about carbon management
Date: 22 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Ottmar Edenhofer (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

LAC 60th Series: Mexico since 1551
Date: 22 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Paul Gillingham (Northwestern University), Discussant: Alan Knight (Oxford), Discussant Benjamin Smith (Warwick)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 January 2025

The Renewal of Islam
Date: 23 January 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Fitzroy Morrissey (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cooperating, Challenging, Communicating: Reflections on Five Years of Diplomacy in Beijing
Date: 23 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dame Caroline Wilson
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: TBA

Monday 26 January 2025

Tifa as Discursive Infrastructure: Silkroadism and the Commercialisation of Authoritarian Governance
Date: 26 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Giulia Sciorati (LSE)
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)

Tuesday 27 January 2025

The Logic of Provocative Propaganda in the Shadow of Democratic Uprisings: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement
Date: 27 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Eddy S. F. Yeung (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Panel Discussion: 'COP30 Debrief: Insights and reflections from the University of Oxford delegation'
Date: 27 January 2026, 12:30 - 13:45
Speaker s: Dr Erika Berenguer (University of Oxford), Dr Aline Soterroni (Research Fellow), Selam Kidane Abebe (Oxford Net Zero), Isha Yadav (Oxford Climate Society), Hansa Mukherjee (Climate Champions), Ievgeniia Kopytsia (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organisers: Oxford Climate Research Network, Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Daily Bread: Thinking Comparatively about Food Protests, Social History, Gender, and Archival Politics
Date: 27 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Frauds We Are Yet But in Sight Of': Fighting Civil War Pension Fraud in Gilded Age America, 1884-1897
Date: 27 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Rob Bates (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

Shaping Diplomatic Expertise: Apostolic Nuncios, Careers, and Papal Authority in Post-Tridentine Europe (presenting online)
Date: 27 January 2026, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker : Dorota Gregorowicz (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 January 2025

Biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainability: is it time for a reset?
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : David Obura (IPBES)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Islamophobia, antisemitism, and the struggle for recognition
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medieval Epiros and Albania: Geopolitical and Economic Reflections in the Light of Coinage
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Julian Baker (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

A model occupation. German occupational policy in Brussels and its impact on the First World War - and beyond
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Samuël Kruizinga (UV Amsterdam)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 January 2025

Roundtable discussion to mark the publication of 'Worlds of Islam' by James McDougall
Date: 29 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: James McDougall (Oxford), Faisal Devji (Oxford), Raihan Ismail (Oxford), Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Levine Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Miriam Driessen (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: Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)

The Mexican Intellectuals Lobby in the United States During the 1920s and 1930s
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jesus Velasco (Tarleton State University/LAC Visiting Academic)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 January 2025

Towards a Supernatural History of the British Empire
Date: 30 January 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : John Slight (Open University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

Chinese Buddhist Ethics of Belief: An Introduction to Sanlun Philosophy
Date: 2 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Rafal K. Stepien (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor, turn left at top of stairs/coming out of lift)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Jessica Frazier (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 February 2025

From Americanism to Maga: redefining the bounds of citizenship
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford's Koch Centre)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

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

Wednesday 11 February 2025

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

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

Friday 20 February 2025

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

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

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: Wharton Room
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: Wharton Room
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

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

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

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

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

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

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