Past events

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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Story of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire

24 January 2024

An Environmental History of the Indian Ocean

15 January 2024

Where is Asia in the History of Early Modern Capitalism?

20 November 2023

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The Cultural Revolution in a Rural County of China

08 November 2023

Malabar's Golden Trail: From the Indian Ocean to the Global Economy

06 November 2023

From Empires of Coal and Steam to the Petro-States and Saltwater Kingdoms: The Indian Ocean Roots of Fossil-Fueled Water in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, 1850-2100

30 October 2023

Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism

23 October 2023

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Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture

13 October 2023

Evolving Traditions: Networks of Empire and the Changing Economies of Islamic Intellectual Production in East Africa (c. 1800-1945)

06 June 2023

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Seeing is Believing: stories of forced migration through the lens of creative technologies

31 May 2023

Made In Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization

30 May 2023

Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between Indian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919-1926

23 May 2023

2016-17

9 failure design and the globalisation of risk

12 roundtable discussion black history month

14 boltanski esquerre on the enrichment economy

16 poster diamond

1 poster gh of cotton

2 antoinetteburtonposter

3 global and comparative feminisms poster

4 alan knight poster

10 pankaj mishra the age of anger

11 poster the algerian war of independence

13 donoghue lecture poster

14 boltanski esquerre on the enrichment economy

15 populism as a global form

16 poster war health and the environment in the modern age 6 june

17 poster urban spirituality

2015-16

Christian and Muslim saints Nov 2015

Bridging the gap May 2016

Egypt over the longue duree May 2016

World of reform May 2016

Globalisation Africa May 2016

The new world June 2016

2014-15

Global history of the book Dec 2014

Global history of Europe Feb 2015

Africa in the Great War Feb 2015

Gold rush imperialism Apr 2015

British culture goes global May 2015

Disease and global history May 2015

Globalization and uncertainty June 2015

2013-14

learning from big brothers Sept 2013

Strategies of imperial control Oct 2013

Kinetic empires Nov 2013

Great war and global history Jan 2014

Latin America in global history Feb 2014

The official mind at fifty May 2014

Ocean worlds May 2014

2012-13

New Angles on Empire May 2012

Thinking Global May 2012

New directions in global history Sept 2012

Deserts, steppes and inner spaces Nov 2012

Deep history of migration Feb 2013

Empires of knowledge May 2013