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

Monday 17 February 2025

China’s Evolving Approach to Economic Security
Date: 17 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Yeling Tan (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), Dr Xiaojing Miao (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 Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)

Kings, lords, and housebuilders: Portuguese and Chinese debates over the status of early modern Macau
Date: 17 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Jacob Fordham (LSE)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: Euan Huey (Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 February 2025

Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt
Date: 18 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jayaseelan Raj (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Hilary Term Lecture 2025: Historical Justice under State Socialism
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Daniel Leese (University of Freiburg)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 February 2025

Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
Date: 19 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Transnational and Global History Workshop
Date: 19 February 2025, 14:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Economic Diversification, State Fragility, and Development in Muslim Societies
Date: 19 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Adnan Khan (FCDO)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Of Scripts and Scribes: Investigating Practices of Writing in Late Antique Iran
Date: 19 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Olivia Ramble (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

Economic Autonomy and State Control in 20th Century East Asia
Date: 19 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Gus Tsz-kit Chan (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Man-Sing Cheung (Marco) (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room
Organisers: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)
Host: Simon Lam (University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2025

Diaspora Chinese and Modern China: Transnationalism and Class of the Chinese of the British West Indies, the 1880s–1970s
Date: 20 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Setsuko Sonoda (Ritsumeikan 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)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
Date: 21 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Between Nation and Community. Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition (1947-1990s)
Date: 25 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Laurence Gautier (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
Date: 25 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable discussion on pre-modern Chinese diplomacy
Date: 25 February 2025, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker s: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Song-Chuan Chen (University of Warwick), Dr Thomas Barrett (University of Cambridge), Dr Jacob Fordham (LSE)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, TORCH
Organiser: Andrew Moeller
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 February 2025

Mecca in Morocco: Studying the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Pilgrimage in Muslim Everyday Life
Date: 26 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Kholoud al-Ajarma (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transnational Left Solidarity
Date: 26 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Vladimir Bortun (University of Oxford), Mariana Steiner Farias (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul)
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Father Tomás de León: A Spanish Orientalist in Seventeenth Century Granada
Date: 26 February 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Fernando Rodríguez Mediano (CHSS-CSIC, Madrid)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Coinage of Mughal South Asia and the Muslim Chain of Being
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Azfar Moin (University of Texas, Austin)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dialogue and Debate between Syriac and Armenian Miaphysites in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Andy Hilkens (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
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

Towards re-decentralising the Web: an ethical web and data infrastructure
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professor Ruben Verborgh (Ghent University), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (University of Oxford), Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

What was Grand Strategy in World War II—a look at the US policy of "Germany First"
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Philips Payson O'Brien (St Andrews)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
Date: 28 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

‘Mao-Lana’ of Asia: Bhashani, Black Maoism, and Islamic Socialism in the 1960s
Date: 4 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
Date: 4 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 March 2025

How to Study Arabic and Islamic Philosophy? Once Again about al-Ghazali and Descartes
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Frank Griffel (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New Approaches to the Byzantine Army of North Africa in the 7th Century: Organisation, Strategies, and Challenges
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tommaso Giuliodoro (Durham University)
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

Nature narratives: Eden, spoils or garden
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Sandra Diaz (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Colonial Projects and Local Realities in East Asian ‘Peripheries’
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Scott Ma (University of Zurich), Surigage (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room
Organisers: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 March 2025

The billionaire tax: a (modest) proposal for the 21st century
Date: 6 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Gabriel Zucman (Paris School of Economics)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Yang sheng and Diaitētikē: Comparative Perspectives on Regimen in Early China
Date: 6 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Arthur Harris (Cambridge)
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 Oliver Hargrave (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 March 2025

Involuntary Bachelorhood and the Crises of the Son-centred Intergenerational Contract – Insights from Gender-imbalanced Rural China
Date: 10 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Lisa Eklund (Lund Universty)
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 Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
Date: 11 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown 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)

‘Home’ in Sikh Polity: Understandings of mīrī pīrī in contemporary Britain
Date: 11 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jaskiran Kaur Bhogal (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

An Exceptional Identity: The Role of US History Education in (Re)Producing American Exceptionalism
Date: 11 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Emma Hall (University of Warwick)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Tsushima Domain and the Taiping Rebellion: Intelligence Networks and Information Circulation in Japan, 1853–1855
Date: 11 March 2025, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker : Dr Yongchao Cheng (Tohoku University)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
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)

Sustainability, prosperity and global decision-making in the age of ecological scarcity
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Edward Barbier (Colorado State 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

Wednesday 12 March 2025

Imperial & Transnational Histories of War
Date: 12 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Jake Gasson (King's College London), Salvador Lima (European University Institute)
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Who Built the ‘Spanish’ Empire? Legislation, Toleration, and the Co-Creation of a Global Superpower
Date: 12 March 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Adrian Masters (University of Trier)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reflections on the War in Sudan
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Team of Palace Historians: the Final Redactions of Theophanes Continuatus and the De Cerimoniis
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Michael Featherstone (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

Designing for Scarcity, Navigating Decline: Architecture, Industry, and Global Economic Transformation in Twentieth-Century China
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Huirong Cheng (University of Edinburgh), Niall Chithelen (University of California, San Diego)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room
Organisers: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Ning Zhang (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 March 2025

Using geophysics to understand volcanic eruptions and search for geothermal energy resources
Date: 13 March 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof Martyn Unsworth (University of Alberta)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Global religious change and patterns of ruler conversion, 1450-1850
Date: 13 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Euan Huey (Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 March 2025

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 18 March 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: Euan Huey (Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 March 2025

1-Day Conference: History, Eugenics, and Human Enhancement: How the Past Can Inform Ethical Debates in the Present
Date: 24 March 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford
Organisers: Jose Porras (Faculty of History), Andrew Moeller, Alberto Giubilini (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
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