Oxford Centre for Global History

The Oxford Centre for Global History was established by the History Faculty in June 2011 to reflect its strong commitment to the field. Global History in Oxford is defined broadly as the global movement of people, goods, and ideas and the consequences that flow from them. Chronologically, it extends across all historical periods from ancient to late modern.

The Centre is particularly keen to encourage cooperation between historians of different periods, as well as places, in the study of themes of global significance. It will support research projects, and host workshops, seminars, and conferences. A key part of the Centre’s role is to facilitate the research of all those in Oxford who are keen to develop a global history dimension in their work.

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SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford), 'Russian Turkestan and the First World War'

12 November 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Geert Castryck, 'The De-Imperialization of Colonialism: Revisiting Colonial Reforms and Anti-Colonial Movements in the 1920s'

02 December 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick), 'Empire of the Sand? Persian Gulf "Piracy", the French threat to India, and British imperial responses'

03 December 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Harriet Mercer, 'Empire and the eighteenth-century origins of global temperature'

18 November 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Hunter Harris, 'The Problem of Legal Pluralism in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire'

28 January 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Ismay Milford, 'A Zambian not at Bandung and the uses of global biography'

18 February 2022

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SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Katie Donington (London South Bank), 'The Bonds of Family'

22 January 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Kim Wagner, 'The most illuminating thing I have ever seen': Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906'

04 February 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Lia Brazil, 'International Law and War in the White British Empire: Ireland and South Africa 1899-1921'

11 February 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Nükhet Varlik (Rutgers), 'Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives'

29 January 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Pedro Aires Oliveira, '"Fellow Travelling" in the age of decolonisation: Basil Davidson and the independence struggles in Lusophone Africa'

25 November 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Ria Kapoor (Manchester), 'The 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion: Making a Transnational Diaspora fit a World of Nation-States'

29 October 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Shruti Kapila (Cambridge),'Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age'

15 October 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Su Lin Lewis (Bristol): 'Intimate Solidarities: Mobility and Hospitality in the Women's International Socialist Movement 1955-1970'

05 November 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Yasmin Khan, 'Men of their time? The afterlife of the Indian Raj in Oxford'

21 October 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations

03 March 2022 to 04 March 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations

11 March 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Debin Ma, 'Ideology and Economic Change: the Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th century China and Japan'

04 November 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Emma Hunter (Edinburgh), 'Colonial public spheres, liberal thought and indirect rule in interwar Africa'

05 February 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor James Smithies, 'Modes of Historical Analysis: Digital Approaches to Global and Imperial History'

25 February 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Jamie Belich, 'Urban Colonialism in Global History. From Ancient Athens to Modern New York via Early Modern Istanbul'

21 January 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Jennifer Morgan, 'Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic'

11 November 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor John T. Sidel (LSE), 'From Bohemia to Balintawak, Baku to Bandung, Antananarivo and Guangzhou to Điện Biên Phủ: Cosmopolitan Circuitries of Revolution in Southeast Asia'

19 November 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Katherine Paugh, '"Disorders of Bestial Origin": Race and Venereal Disease in the Atlantic World'

28 October 2022

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Krishan Kumar (Virginia), 'Empire and China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)'

26 February 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Philip Murphy (School of Advanced Study), 'Andrew Roth's End of Empire: An Unfinished History of Decolonization'

19 February 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen), '"Stop the World": The end of empire and the "break-up of Britain"'

12 February 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge),'Colombo as Idea and Artefact'

22 October 2021

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford), 'The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics'

26 November 2021

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SEMINAR (History of War): Conversation: The Ethics of Writing Modern War: Kim Wagner (QMUL), Richard Reid (Oxford), Priya Atwal (Independent)

21 October 2020

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People

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford), 'Russian Turkestan and the First World War'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Geert Castryck, 'The De-Imperialization of Colonialism: Revisiting Colonial Reforms and Anti-Colonial Movements in the 1920s'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick), 'Empire of the Sand? Persian Gulf "Piracy", the French threat to India, and British imperial responses'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Harriet Mercer, 'Empire and the eighteenth-century origins of global temperature'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Hunter Harris, 'The Problem of Legal Pluralism in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Ismay Milford, 'A Zambian not at Bandung and the uses of global biography'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Katie Donington (London South Bank), 'The Bonds of Family'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Kim Wagner, 'The most illuminating thing I have ever seen': Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Lia Brazil, 'International Law and War in the White British Empire: Ireland and South Africa 1899-1921'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Nükhet Varlik (Rutgers), 'Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Pedro Aires Oliveira, '"Fellow Travelling" in the age of decolonisation: Basil Davidson and the independence struggles in Lusophone Africa'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Ria Kapoor (Manchester), 'The 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion: Making a Transnational Diaspora fit a World of Nation-States'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Shruti Kapila (Cambridge),'Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Su Lin Lewis (Bristol): 'Intimate Solidarities: Mobility and Hospitality in the Women's International Socialist Movement 1955-1970'

SEMINAR (GIH): Dr Yasmin Khan, 'Men of their time? The afterlife of the Indian Raj in Oxford'

SEMINAR (GIH): Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations

SEMINAR (GIH): Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Debin Ma, 'Ideology and Economic Change: the Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th century China and Japan'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Emma Hunter (Edinburgh), 'Colonial public spheres, liberal thought and indirect rule in interwar Africa'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor James Smithies, 'Modes of Historical Analysis: Digital Approaches to Global and Imperial History'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Jamie Belich, 'Urban Colonialism in Global History. From Ancient Athens to Modern New York via Early Modern Istanbul'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Jennifer Morgan, 'Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor John T. Sidel (LSE), 'From Bohemia to Balintawak, Baku to Bandung, Antananarivo and Guangzhou to Điện Biên Phủ: Cosmopolitan Circuitries of Revolution in Southeast Asia'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Katherine Paugh, '"Disorders of Bestial Origin": Race and Venereal Disease in the Atlantic World'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Krishan Kumar (Virginia), 'Empire and China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Philip Murphy (School of Advanced Study), 'Andrew Roth's End of Empire: An Unfinished History of Decolonization'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen), '"Stop the World": The end of empire and the "break-up of Britain"'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge),'Colombo as Idea and Artefact'

SEMINAR (GIH): Professor Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford), 'The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics'

SEMINAR (History of War): Conversation: The Ethics of Writing Modern War: Kim Wagner (QMUL), Richard Reid (Oxford), Priya Atwal (Independent)

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