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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. 

People

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SEMINAR: Professor Faisal Devji (Oxford), 'Escaping the Global Event: India, Islam and the Great War'

23 October 2020
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SEMINAR: Professor Gareth Austin (Cambridge) 'Global(izing) Africa: the case of economic history

22 November 2019
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SEMINAR: Professor Gustavo A. Del Angel (CIDE, Mexico), 'Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977-1990'

18 April 2023
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SEMINAR: Professor John Marriott (Oxford), 'Land and the origins of British India'

02 February 2018
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SEMINAR: Professor Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research), 'Revenge of the Commons: property, debt and collateral in the history of African financial capitalism'

20 November 2020
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SEMINAR: Professor Peter Mitchell (Oxford), ' 'Waiting for the barbarians: what archaeology has to say about southern hemisphere equestrians'

24 November 2017
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SEMINAR: Professor Saliha Belmessous (University of Southern Wales) 'International treaties as imperial social contracts'

24 January 2020
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SEMINAR: Professor Shinobu Majima (Gakushuin), 'An unnavigable valley: trade and sovereignty in the forest of Borneo, c. 1878-1938'

19 January 2018
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SEMINAR: Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne), '"A pack of knaves": the Royal African Company, large plantations and the rise of the planter class and imperial commitment to the support of slavery in British America 1672-1708'

31 January 2020
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SEMINAR: Professor Vinita Damodaran (Sussex), 'Empire Forestry, famines and communities; Eastern India in the nineteenth and twentieth century'

27 October 2017
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SEMINAR: Professor William Beinart (Oxford), 'The Adamsons, Born Free and the late colonial era: images that changed the animal world'

20 October 2017
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SEMINAR: Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College), 'Shatter the Map: How Milton Friedman and other Neoliberals Imagined a World after Nations'

05 June 2019
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SEMINAR: Richard Reid (Oxford), 'Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of pre-colonial war in modern Africa'

17 October 2018
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SEMINAR: Saul Dubow (Cambridge), 'Global science, national horizons: paleontology, astronomy and Antarctic research in South Africa'

18 January 2019
Urban spirituality in Central and Southern Africa

SEMINAR: Urban Spirituality in Central and Southern Africa

08 June 2017
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SEMINAR: Valerie Hansen (Yale), 'Locating the silk road(s) in history and today'

26 October 2018
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SEMINAR: Valerie Kivelson (Michigan), 'Celebrating religious diversity: early modern Russia and the power of typological thinking'

19 October 2018
War, health and the environment in the modern age

Seminars

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SPECIAL EVENT (TGHS): Race, Research, and the University: Historians' Approaches - in collaboration with Race Equality Action Group (REAG)

05 November 2020
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SPECIAL EVENT (TGHS): Reading Group in collaboration with Race Equality Action Group (REAG) 'Race, Teaching, and the University: Historians' Approaches'

11 February 2021
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Swift against Empire

30 November 2017
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Symposium presentation by Professor Richard Reid: 'Contested succession and 'civil war' in nineteenth-century Africa'

29 January 2019
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Symposium: 'Race and Resistance: Understanding Bermuda Today'

03 November 2018
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SYMPOSIUM: Radical Business? Business and the Contest over Social Norms

28 June 2019
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TALK: Konstantin Dierks (Indiana), 'Archiving Globalization of the United States, 1815-1861: Who Was 'Global' and Who Was Not'

05 February 2019
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Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism

23 October 2023
A North African Astrolabe

Oxford Centre for Global History Website