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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: Dr Hannah Theaker (Oxford), 'Chinese Partition: Islamophobic Inheritances in the Legacies of the Great Northwestern Rebellion, 1860-1874'

30 October 2020
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SEMINAR: Professor Paul Lane (Cambridge) 'Droughts, Pastoralists and Identities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Kenya: an Archaeological Perspective'

15 November 2019
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SEMINAR: 'Africa and Global History', speaker tbc

19 November 2019
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SEMINAR: 'Boundaries and Interfaces', introduced by Peter Hill, Andrew Edwards and Juan Neves

29 October 2019
Buccaneering and the Political Economy of Colonialism

SEMINAR: 'Buccaneering and the political economy of colonialism: a case study from the Caribbean frontier'

30 May 2017
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SEMINAR: 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities'

16 May 2019
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SEMINAR: 'Structure and Culture', introduced by Chihab El Khachab (Oxford)

15 October 2019
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SEMINAR: (TGHS) Dr Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh (Kent), 'Approaches to Queer History'

21 January 2020
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SEMINAR: (TGHS) Dr Eleanor Janega (London School of Economics), 'Suspect Women: sex-work, gossip and reputation in 14th century Prague'

18 February 2020
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SEMINAR: Alenka Zupančič (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), 'Love thy neighbour as you love thyself!?'

06 November 2018
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SEMINAR: Alexander Morrison (Oxford), 'Comparing Russian settler colonialism'

16 November 2018
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SEMINAR: Amanda Power (Oxford), 'Towards the Anthropocene: state-formation and environment in the global Middle Ages'

26 February 2019
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SEMINAR: Andrew Buchanan (Vermont), 'Globalising World War II'

23 January 2019
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SEMINAR: Andrew Edwards (Oxford), 'Cash rules: money and the British Empire in the Age of Revolutions'

01 February 2019
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SEMINAR: Bronwen Everill (Cambridge), 'Empire of Accumulation: Consumer Value and the Labor Question in British and American Nineteenth Century Expansion'

30 November 2018
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SEMINAR: Danilo Scholz (EUI, Florence), 'What were the 1990s? Utopia and the end of history'

27 May 2019
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SEMINAR: Dr Alex Middleton (Christchurch, Oxford), 'Napoleon III, the invasion of Mexico, and mid-Victorian Liberalism'

21 February 2020
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SEMINAR: Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham), 'Slavery in the Nigerian Sahel: a resilient institution'

14 February 2020
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SEMINAR: Dr Benjamin Mountford (La Trobe) & Dr Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford), '"Among these incongruous battalia, are represented the hopes of the world": gold rushes and global history'

09 February 2018
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SEMINAR: Dr Catherine Holmes (Oxford), 'Approaches to the Byzantine Empire in the Age of Global History'

04 June 2019
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SEMINAR: Dr Cheryl Birdseye (Oxford Brookes) '"You taught me language and my profit on it is I know how to curse": Shakespeare's The Tempest in postcolonial criticism and performance'

25 October 2019
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SEMINAR: Dr Chris Vaughan (Liverpool John Moores) 'The "federal moment" in East Africa: regionalism and the nation-state, 1958-1963

01 November 2019
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SEMINAR: Dr Claas Kirchhelle (Oxford), ''Dr Felix' Fingerprint Bureau - Bacteriophages and Global Disease Surveillance (1920-2006)'

06 November 2018
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SEMINAR: Dr Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale), 'From The End of Ideology to the End of History: The Strange Revival of a Discredited Idea'

07 March 2019
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SEMINAR: Dr Dexnell Peters 'Island and mainland colonies in the Greater Caribbean during the Revolutionary Era' With a response by Prof David Lambert (University of Warwick)

15 October 2019
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SEMINAR: Dr Dexnell Peters (Exeter, Oxford), 'Revolution, empire and entangled history in the Southern Caribbean'

28 February 2020
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SEMINAR: Dr Dina Gusejnova (Sheffield), 'Islands and isolation in European history: Towards an intellectual history of the Isle of Man'

20 February 2018
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SEMINAR: Dr Graeme Thompson (Harvard), 'Kin Beyond Sea': W.E. Gladstone on Liberalism, Empire, and America, 1846-1898'

04 December 2020
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SEMINAR: Dr Jennifer Altehenger (Merton, Oxford), 'Materials, design and revolution in the making of modern China'

07 February 2020
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SEMINAR: Dr Katayoun Shafiee (Warwick), 'Governing democratic futures: risky measures along an Iranian waterway, 1920-79'

20 November 2018
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