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

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art, Digital Media, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh
Date: 11 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Lotte Hoek (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

Translating the Image: Art, Science and Global Imagination in the first Islamic Description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbī / History of the West Indies)
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sinem Casale (University of Minnesota)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

China's Once and Future World Order
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Amitav Acharya (The American 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)

Revolts as rituals of political communication in ‘Abbāsid Baghdad (908-991)
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Fanny Bessard (Trinity)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

James Martin Memorial Lecture: 'Environment, health, society and economics in the new era of geopolitics'
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Lord Hague (Chancellor, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Hodology, Wayfinding, and Geographic Knowledge in Late Antique Pilgrimage Accounts
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Marlena Whiting (Groningen)
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

Forgotten Currents and Kitchen Tables: The Tales of the Subaltern
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Samuel Ramapuram (Goethe University), Ying Yue (Tsinghua University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Room (1/F), University of Oxford China Centre
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: Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 November 2025

Knowing Hands: Hand-memory Techniques and Handy Knowledge in Ming Daily-use Encyclopedias
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Marta Hanson (Center for Advanced Studies - Erlangen)
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), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 November 2025

The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
Date: 14 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 November 2025

Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Book Launch)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Ante-chapel, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Post colonial capital – a genealogy
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Survivors: The Converted Jews of Lisbon after the Massacre of 1506
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford), Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A French Resident at the Nawab's Court: Indo-French Diplomacy in Early Colonial India
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Aditi Gupta (University of Oxford)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

PSI seminar: 'Globalization, global change and emerging infectious diseases' presented by Professor John Drake
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor John Drake (Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow)
Venue Details: Hybrid event. Online or Oxford Martin School - lecture theatre Address: Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford 34 Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BD
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Wednesday 19 November 2025

War, Empire, and Displacement
Date: 19 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Megan Hamilton (King's College London), James Hua (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.501, Department of History of Art, The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

New Christian Materiality: Reflections on a New Project
Date: 19 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Francisco Bethencourt (King's College London)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: A Discussion
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Peter Frankopan (Oxford), Jonathan Shepard (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

Revolutionary Aesthetics and Affective Politics in Maoist East Asia
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Harry Chi Hang CHO (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Sijie Ren (University of Bristol)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Room (1/F), University of Oxford China Centre
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: Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford)

Art in the Age of the Maxim Gun: The South African War (1899-1902) and the British Illustrated Press
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Sean Wilcox (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

Writing an Intellectual History from below: Methodological and theoretical reflections from "Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge, 2025)”
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Chloe Ireton (UCL)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Film Screening & Director Q&A: To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:30 - 20:30
Speaker : Xiaoxuan Jiang (Film Director)
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
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 Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 November 2025

Beyond Rivalry: How Americans and Chinese View Global Justice
Date: 21 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Xiaojun Li (The University of British Columbia)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
Date: 21 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 November 2025

Is China Building a Rival International Order and How Would We Know?
Date: 24 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Matthew D. Stephen (Helmut Schmidt 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 Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Adapting food systems to climate change: lessons from aquaculture in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Date: 25 November 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Dao Minh Hai (College of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Can Tho University)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Geert de Neve (University of Sussex)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Barbarism, religion, and the tsars: Eighteenth-century Europe imagines the Treaty of Nerchinsk
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Shiru Lim (Leiden University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 November 2025

Waning crescent: The rise and fall of global Islam
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Estates, Economy, and 'Holy Men' in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Thomas Laver (Cambridge)
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

Embodied Objects: Vaginal Technologies and Missionary Collections in East Asia
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Ruoyu Jia (Durham University), Yoo Jin Choi (University of Delaware)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Room (1/F), University of Oxford China Centre
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: Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford)

Navigating the chaos: Trump, Putin, the rise of populism and the end of the rules-based international order
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker s: Lord Darroch of Kew (House of Lords), Kathy Harvey (Associate Dean, MBA and Executive Degrees, Saïd Business School)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

The Soul-loosing Grid (mihun zhen 迷魂陣) and other Novelese Battle Arrays (zhen 陣): A Tentative Exploration of a 'Fictional' Reconstruction of Military Arts, Taoist Rituals, Performing Arts and Black Magic
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO, Paris)
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)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 November 2025

Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

German Mining Science and the Quest for Metals in the Early Modern World
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Gabriele Marcon (Vienna), Chair: Howard Hotson
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Macartney and the Manchus: The Impact of British understandings of Qing Ethnic Tensions on Sino-British Relations
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Ross Moncrieff (University of Oxford)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

Knowledge, Science, and Development across Global Contexts
Date: 3 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Madeline White (Oxford), Koyna Tomar (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue Details: Room 20.421, Faculty of History
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Art and Sustainability in the Early Modern Iberian World
Date: 3 December 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Charlene Villaseñor Black (Worcester College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The role of media in a changing world
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Nic Robertson (CNN International)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Byzantium in Correspondence: 171 Letters of Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus to Non-Greek Byzantinists (1875–1911)
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Olivier Delouis (Paris)
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

Peripheral Voices: Local Identity Formation and Alternative Politics in Imperial Japan
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (University of Oxford), DONG Zi’ang (Hokkaido University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Room (1/F), University of Oxford China Centre
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: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford)

The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Marc Howard (Independent Scholar)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

The Making of a Neglected Disease: Trachoma Research and Control in Twentieth-century China
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)
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 Wuyutong Yao (University of Oxford)

Friday 5 December 2025

The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
Date: 5 December 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Baillie Gifford Distinguished Lecture (China Centre)
Date: 5 December 2025, 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)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 January 2025

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

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

Wednesday 25 February 2025

Joint session with the History of War seminar. Title TBC
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

Tuesday 10 March 2025

Postgraduate presentations - title TBC
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
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