Please find listed below all of the past events and activities of the Global History and Culture Centre. Please also see out list of forthcoming events, which are also available in a calendar view.

Archived materials related to Global History and Culture Centre

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Thu 14 Mar '24

12pm - 1:30pm:

CANCELLED - EMECC-GHCC seminar, Sheryllynne Haggerty (Nottingham), ‘Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756’

Wed 13 Mar '24

1pm - 2pm:

WiP, Xiaona Wang, ‘Manipulating Evidence: Jesuits in China and the Making of Early Modern Eurasian Astronomy’

Fri 08 Mar '24

10am - 5pm:

GHCC-EMECC workshop, ‘Histories of Refugees and Forced Migration’

Tue 05 Mar '24

1pm - 2pm:

Reading Group: Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

Wed 28 Feb '24

1pm - 2pm:

Natalia Milanesio (Houston), ‘Beyond the Ballot Box: Sex and the Meanings of Democracy in Postdictatorial Argentina’

Wed 31 Jan '24

1pm - 2pm:

Ana Struillou (IHR), ‘Struggle and Smoke: Early Itineraries of Tobacco between the Spanish and Maghribi Empires’

Tue 23 Jan '24

1pm - 2pm:

Reading Group, Martin Dusinberre, Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories

Wed 17 Jan '24

1pm - 2pm:

New Member's Introduction with Tom Simpson

Wed 10 Jan '24

12:30pm - 2pm:

New Year's Reception and seminar, Tamara Fernando (Stony Brook), ‘Commodity History and the History of Science? Reading Mathematical Practice, Navigation and Astronomy in the Natural Pearl Trade across Arabic and Tamil contexts’

Wed 06 Dec '23

12pm - 1:30pm:

JSPS Japan-Warwick seminar: ‘Ayutthaya in the Seventeenth Century from Asian and Global Perspectives’

Thu 30 Nov '23

12pm - 2pm:

Lecture 'Microhistory: National and Global Perspectives'

Tue 28 Nov '23

1pm - 2pm:

‘Knowledge Frontiers: The Sixth Pan African Congress and the Literature of Resource Sovereignty’

Wed 22 Nov '23

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading group: Colonial Latin Asia

Wed 15 Nov '23

3pm - 5pm:

Global Diplomacy Network seminar: “A New Perspective on Resident Embassies”

Mon 13 Nov '23

2pm - 4pm:

'Writing the History of Consumption; Writing the History of Food' workshop

Fri 03 Nov '23

10am - 6pm:

Global History Africa @Warwick Workshop: ‘Past Futures: New Histories from Southern Africa’

Thu 02 Nov '23

12pm - 1pm:

‘Following Ahmad Khan: Global Micro-History, Translation and the Social Power of Narrative’

Tue 31 Oct '23

1pm - 2:30pm:

Affirming the History of African and Caribbean People in Britain: Hakim Adi and A. S. Francis in Conversation

Fri 27 Oct '23

12:30pm - 2pm:

“National Colonialism and Frontier Labour: State and Work at the Edge of Capitalism from the Amazon to Tierra del Fuego, 1870s-1940s”

Tue 24 Oct '23

11am - 1pm:

Global Diplomacy Network seminar: 'The Treaties of Westphalia in International Studies and Global Diplomacy'

Thu 19 Oct '23

10:30am - 3:30pm:

Workshop 'Histories of Global Recipes: A Workshop on Sources and Methods'

Wed 18 Oct '23

4:30pm - 6pm:

GHCC Book Launch

Wed 11 Oct '23

12pm - 2pm:

GHCC-EMECC joint welcome lunch and book launch

Thu 06 Jul '23

9:30am - 5pm:

Making Evidence and Crafting Gravitational Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Mon 19 Jun '23

10am - 5pm:

Global Coventry: A Workshop

Wed 31 May '23

4pm - 6pm:

GHCC Annual General Meeting

Thu 25 May '23

10am - 6:30pm:

GHCC Annual Conference: Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939

Wed 17 May '23

1pm - 2pm:

Emma Teng (MIT), Between Racial Bar and Class Exceptionalism: US Detention of Chinese Students, 1905

Wed 10 May '23

1pm - 2pm:

Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau), Subscription Publishing and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Indian Print Culture

Fri 05 May '23

12pm - 5:30pm:

Imperial History Workshop: New Frontiers in Imperial Networks

Wed 03 May '23

4:30pm - 6pm:

History Research seminar: David Arnold (Emeritus Professor, Warwick), Photography and Technology in British India

1pm - 2pm:

seminar with Luregn Lenggenhager, Cologne, The Chobe River between Namibia and Botswana - a Multispecies Border Regime?

Wed 26 Apr '23

1pm - 2pm:

The Struggle for Hong Kong, 2003 to 2023: Local Stories and Global Perspectives by Jeff Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine

Tue 14 Mar '23

2pm - 6pm:

GHCC Early Career Workshop, Non-English Sources for Global History

Mon 13 Mar '23

4pm - 5pm:

GHCC PGR social

Fri 10 Mar '23

11am - 6pm:

Workshop, First Books in Global History

Thu 09 Mar '23

1:30am - 5:30pm:

Global History Africa @ Warwick research workshop - Political Ecology and African Environmental History

Wed 08 Mar '23

12pm - 1pm:

Max Chuhila (University of Dar es Salaam), Frontiers of Knowledge: the North-South Divide in the Study of Africa, Six Decades Experiences from the Global South

Wed 01 Mar '23

1pm - 2pm:

CANCELLED - Christine Okoth (KCL), Knowledge Frontiers: The Sixth Pan African Congress and the Literature of Resource Sovereignty

Wed 08 Feb '23

4:30pm - 6pm:

History Research seminar: Tarangini Sriraman (Goldsmiths), Seeing through the Stomach: Caste and Connected Medical Discourses on Alcoholic (Mal)nutrition

Wed 01 Feb '23

4:30pm - 6pm:

CANCELLED History Research seminar: David Arnold (Emeritus Professor, Warwick), Photography and Technology in British India

Wed 25 Jan '23

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC Reading Group: Jonathan E. Robbins, Oil Palm: A Global History (University of North Carolina Press: 2021)

Wed 18 Jan '23

12:30pm - 2pm:

Film Screening, A Very British Way of Torture

Wed 11 Jan '23

12:30pm - 2pm:

New Year’s reception and new members’ introductions

Fri 16 Dec '22

9:30am - 5:30pm:

workshop "Nature before Resources: Evaluating Nature in Early Modern Empires"

Thu 15 Dec '22

3:15pm - 5pm:

workshop "Nature Before Resources: Evaluating Nature in Early Modern Empires"

Thu 01 Dec '22

12:30pm - 5pm:

workshop "Medical Testing, Past and Present"

Wed 30 Nov '22

4:30pm - 6pm:

History Research seminar (with Feminist History Group): Rosa Campbell (Cambridge), “To feel their warmth, sisterhood and closeness: Australian feminist entanglements with Vietnamese and Chinese communism, 1969-1979”.

Wed 23 Nov '22

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading group on Decolonisation: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously (Hurst Publishers: 2022)

Thu 17 Nov '22

12:30pm - 2pm:

Cherished Consumers: Global Connections, Local Consumptions, and Foreign Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Wed 16 Nov '22

1pm - 2pm:

Ana María Otero-Cleves (Universidad de los Andes), “Foreign Machetes, and Cheap Cotton Textiles: Global Connections, Local Consumption, and Foreign Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Wed 02 Nov '22

4:30pm - 6pm:

History Research seminar 'A slave mother and her sons: slavery and death in late nineteenth-century Century Brazil'

Wed 26 Oct '22

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading group: Dilip M. Menon, Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South

Wed 19 Oct '22

4:30pm - 6pm:

History Research seminar, What is Nur? Rethinking Histories of Cotton in Bengal, Samia Khatun, SOAS

Wed 12 Oct '22

12:30pm - 2pm:

GHCC book launch Guillemette Crouzet, 'Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism'

Wed 22 Jun '22

12pm - 1pm:

GHCC Reading Group on Decolonisation

Thu 16 Jun '22

2pm - 4pm:

Roundtable on New Directions

Wed 15 Jun '22

4pm - 6pm:

Sweet Industriousness: the sugar-slave nexus in the Early Modern world

Thu 09 Jun '22

10am - 5pm:

GHCC Annual Conference, The History of Science and the 'Big Picture'

Wed 25 May '22

11am - 1pm:

Global Diplomacy Network seminar, Whose diplomacy? Tracing indigenous agencies in the ‘colonial archive'

Tue 17 May '22

2pm - 6pm:

ECR workshop 'Mobile Bodies'

11am - 12:30pm:

PG Masterclass, ‘Foreigner's Act and the creation of Deportability in India'

Thu 12 May '22

4pm - 5:30pm:

Public Lecture '‘An international location for colonial penology? The Indian Jail Committee Report 1919-20’

Wed 11 May '22

4:30pm - 6pm:

History Research seminar: Danielle Terrazas Williams (Leeds): The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico

Thu 05 May '22

11:30am - 1pm:

Book Launch, Horizons: A Global History of Science

Tue 03 May '22

1pm - 6pm:

Workshop on 'Global Coventry'

Mon 04 Apr '22

9:30am - 5pm:

Technology as Resource: Material Culture and Processes in the Pre-modern World

Fri 25 Mar '22

1pm - 2:30pm:

book launch of Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Wed 16 Mar '22

1pm - 2pm:

A Talk by Fuyuko Matsukata (Tokyo), Toward a Global History of Diplomacy: An Attempt to Break Down Europe’s ‘City Wall’

Wed 09 Mar '22

1pm - 2pm:

Decolonising Global Health: The View from the Indian Ocean World

Tue 08 Mar '22

4pm - 5:30pm:

GHCC/EMECC joint reading session: Historical Change (part II)

Wed 02 Mar '22

1pm - 2pm:

Pragya Kaul, The Two “Others”: Perspectives on and from Holocaust Refugees in British India

Wed 23 Feb '22

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC Reading Group on Decolonisation

Wed 09 Feb '22

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC Discussion: Global History and Latin America

Wed 02 Feb '22

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC Reading Group - Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Tue 01 Feb '22

2pm - 3pm:

LAWN Launch 2022

Wed 26 Jan '22

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC discussion on 'The Politics of Global History (“Whose Global History?”)'

Wed 19 Jan '22

4:30pm - 6pm:

History Research seminar with Priya Satia (Stanford), Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire

Wed 12 Jan '22

12:30pm - 2pm:

New Year's Reception and Book Launch

Wed 08 Dec '21

1pm - 2pm:

WiP session with Norifumi Daito (Tokyo) on "An Untold History of Sugar: The Dutch Struggle in the Eighteenth-century Persian Gulf"

Wed 01 Dec '21

4:30pm - 6pm:

CANCELLED DUE TO UCU STRIKE ACTION - History Research Seminar - Revolting Animals in Colonial Myanmar, Jonathan Saha (Durham)

Tue 30 Nov '21

4pm - 5:30pm:

GHCC/EMECC joint workshop 'Historical Change'

Fri 26 Nov '21

10:30am - 5pm:

workshop - 'Passanten' and transient migration in preindustrial Europe and beyond

Wed 24 Nov '21

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC Reading Group on Decolonisation

Wed 17 Nov '21

4:30pm - 6pm:

History Research Seminar with Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard), 'Narratives of Erasure: Mexico, India, and the Stories to End World Hunger'

Wed 10 Nov '21

2pm - 6pm:

Hakluyt Society Symposium 2021 – Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches

Wed 03 Nov '21

1pm - 2pm:

New Members’ introduction

Wed 27 Oct '21

1pm - 2pm:

Warwick-JNU exchange: Cheri Kuncheria (JNU), “Cultivating Tobacco: Agricultural Science and Mendelianism in India”

Wed 20 Oct '21

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC Reading Group - Doing Global History: An Introduction in 6 Concepts by Roland Wenzlhuemer

Wed 13 Oct '21

1pm - 2pm:

welcome lunch

Tue 22 Jun '21

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading Group 'African Europeans: An Untold History '

Fri 18 Jun '21

1pm - 6:30pm:

COVENTRY AS GLOBAL: RETHINKING MIGRATION, BELONGING AND SANCTUARY

Thu 17 Jun '21

9am - 4pm:

'You Are What You Eat’: Food and Identity From The Middle Ages to the Modern

Fri 11 Jun '21

5pm - 7pm:

EUI workshop 'Maps and Global Spaces'

Tue 08 Jun '21

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading group: Isabel Wilkerson - 'Caste: The Lies that Divide Us'

Thu 03 Jun '21

4pm - 5:30pm:

GHCC Annual Lecture by Prof Wayne Modest on 'The Ethnographic Museum & Global History—what are they good for?'

2pm - 3:30pm:

GHCC AGM

Fri 28 May '21

5pm - 7pm:

EUI workshop 'Natural and Material Cultures'

Tue 25 May '21

1pm - 2pm:

'Past and present water conflicts in Kenya’ by Kennedy Mkutu and Klerkson Lugusa

Mon 24 May '21

10am - 12:30pm:

JSPS Source Discussion Workshop 'Terms in Circulation, Categories at Work, c.1600-1850'

Mon 17 May '21

2pm - 3:30pm:

Negotiating touch: a second conversation

Fri 14 May '21

5pm - 7pm:

EUI workshop 'Sex, Gender and Religion in Carletti'

Tue 11 May '21

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading Group Statelessness: A Modern History

Wed 05 May '21

4:30pm - 6pm:

The Challenges of Global Intellectual History

Wed 28 Apr '21

4:30pm - 6pm:

GHCC/YPCCS joint seminar ‘The Liminal Zone: The Greater Southern Caribbean in the Revolutionary Atlantic World’

Tue 27 Apr '21

1pm - 2pm:

New Book 'Burning the Dead' Presentation with the Author

Fri 16 Apr '21

5pm - 7pm:

EUI workshop 'Ethnographic and Linguistic Understanding'

10am - 3pm:

Veteran Politics and Memory: A Global Perspective

Fri 26 Mar '21

5pm - 7pm:

EUI workshop 'Slavery and the Slave Trade'

Tue 16 Mar '21

1pm - 2pm:

A talk with Remi Dewiere on 'Intersecting Views between Two Desert Ports: Representing Africa in the World from Early Modern Tripoli and Borno (N. Nigeria)'

Fri 05 Mar '21

5pm - 7pm:

EUI workshop 'Mobility, Travel and Trade in Carletti's Times'

Wed 03 Mar '21

4:30pm - 6pm:

The Politics of "Greater India": Moveable Antiquities, Charmed Knowledge Networks and Spiritual seeking between Indonesia, India, and the West, 1880s-1960s

Tue 02 Mar '21

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading Group 'Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait' -CANCELLED

Tue 23 Feb '21

1pm - 2pm:

A Talk with Anna Ross, 'Imperial Debris in Wartime Tangier, 1940-1944'

Fri 19 Feb '21

Speaking Out: Whistle-Blowers, Dissidents, and Disclosures

Fri 12 Feb '21

5pm - 7pm:

EUI workshop 'Carletti's World Across Maritime Empires'

Mon 08 Feb '21

2pm - 3:30pm:

Negotiating Touch

Wed 03 Feb '21

4:30pm - 6pm:

Is Deep History White?

Tue 26 Jan '21

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading Group Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

Thu 03 Dec '20

12pm - 1:30pm:

Webinar: Islam and the Imagination of Life beyond Earth

Wed 02 Dec '20

4:30pm - 6pm:

GHCC seminar 'The Need for Strangers: A Story of Love and Loathing'

Tue 01 Dec '20

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading Group - Anne Gerritsen, Rebecca Earle's new books

Tue 24 Nov '20

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading Group - Lucy Delap, Feminisms: A Global History

Tue 17 Nov '20

1pm - 2pm:

'Making Hinduism Respectable: Vivekananda and the Transnational Politics of Vedanta'

Wed 04 Nov '20

4:30pm - 6pm:

GHCC seminar '‘When Does Global History Begin?’

Tue 27 Oct '20

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC new member introductions: Nishpriha Thakur & Tom Lowman

Tue 20 Oct '20

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading group - Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence / Abena Dove Osseo-Asare

Wed 14 Oct '20

4:30pm - 6pm:

GHCC seminar 'Doing Reparative History: Bringing Race and Slavery Home'

Tue 25 Aug '20

7pm - 9pm:

August concert series, Episode 4: Music by Handel, Park, Boyce, Linley, and Giardini with Gabriel Amherst, Christopher Bucknall, Rachel Byrt, Bojan Cicic, Florence Cooke, Judith Evans, and Jean Paterson

Tue 18 Aug '20

7pm - 9pm:

August concert series, Episode 3: Music for flutes, oboes, trumpets, and trombones with Mark Baigent, Jonathan Slade, Robert Vanryne, and Emily White

Tue 11 Aug '20

7pm - 9pm:

August concert series, Episode 2: Music by Giornovich and Sancho with Christopher Bucknall and Bojan Cicic

Tue 04 Aug '20

7pm - 9pm:

August Concert Series, Episode 1: Music by Handel, Abel, and J.C. Bach with Christopher Bucknall and Jon Rees

Fri 03 Jul '20

workshop 'Empire in Motion: Transnational Perspectives on the Indian Empire, 18th-20th Century'

Wed 27 May '20

2pm - 3pm:

GHCC Reading Group - Unruly Waters: How Mountains Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia’s History

Wed 20 May '20

3pm - 4pm:

GHCC seminar: Genetics, Public Health and ‘Medical Archaeology’ in the Middle East

Thu 14 May '20

3pm - 4pm:

GHCC AGM

Fri 24 Apr '20

2pm - 3pm:

GHCC Reading Group ' A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolutions'

Wed 04 Mar '20

4pm - 6pm:

GHCC seminar with Prof Masashi HANEDA (University of Tokyo) CANCELLED

Wed 26 Feb '20

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC Reading Group - A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolutions - CANCELLED

Fri 21 Feb '20

Global History workshop 'Why Does Economic History Matter?'

Thu 20 Feb '20

4pm - 6pm:

GHCC/EMECC seminar 'Indians herbe', ivory box: Civility and Empire in Early Stuart London - CANCELLED

Wed 19 Feb '20

4pm - 6pm:

A conversation with Jan de Vries

Tue 18 Feb '20

12pm - 2pm:

Round-table discussion 'Bread and Potatoes'

Wed 05 Feb '20

4pm - 6pm:

GHCC seminar on Historicizing imaginaries of collective property: a view from South Africa

Tue 04 Feb '20

4pm - 6pm:

GHCC/CHM joint seminar on Genetics, Public Health and ‘Medical Archaeology’ in the Middle East - CANCELLED

Wed 29 Jan '20

2pm - 6pm:

GHCC Science, Technology, and Environment Workshop

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC Reading Group - Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country

Thu 23 Jan '20

5:30pm - 7pm:

Connecting Cultures GRP Keynote Lecture by Prof Michael Puett, 'What’s the point of cultural comparison?'

Wed 22 Jan '20

4pm - 6pm:

GHCC-EMECC joint seminar “No more victories! No more conquests!” The French and British East India Companies’ search for an entente, 1752–1788

Wed 08 Jan '20

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading group - American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700

Wed 04 Dec '19

12:30pm - 5pm:

workshop on Science, Technology and Environment - postponed

Wed 27 Nov '19

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading group - American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700 - postponed

Wed 20 Nov '19

2pm - 6pm:

workshop on Languages of Slavery

Tue 19 Nov '19

1pm - 2pm:

Queer History reading group

Fri 15 Nov '19

GHCC Annual Conference 'Race Matters: Interrogating Race and the Global Writing of History '

Thu 14 Nov '19

4pm - 6pm:

GHCC annual lecture 'The Murder of a Dutch Fiscal in 1723, Colombo: Interrogating the Categories of ‘Slave’, ‘Black’ and ‘Kaffir’

Wed 13 Nov '19

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC new members introduction

Thu 31 Oct '19

4pm - 6pm:

The Austerities of Independence: Human Rights and National Development Planning in Jamaica, 1955-1962

Wed 30 Oct '19

4pm - 6pm:

Global seminar '‘In Search of Native Seeds: Histories of Indigenous Agriculture and the Imagined Futures of Farming'

Wed 23 Oct '19

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC reading group - Global History, Globally: Research and Practice around the World

Thu 17 Oct '19

10am - 6pm:

Japan-GHCC workshop on Categories at Work in Global History

Wed 16 Oct '19

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC new members introduction

Fri 11 Oct '19

workshop: Black Children in Eighteenth-Century London: Archives and Collections

Thu 10 Oct '19

4pm - 6pm:

GHCC-EMECC joint seminar on Philanthropy and Empire at the London Foundling Hospital: Research and Reflections on Public History - CANCELLED

4pm - 6pm:

with EMECC: Prof. Mark Philp (Warwick) - ‘Let’s Dance: Music and Movement in 1790s Britain’

Wed 02 Oct '19

4pm - 5:30pm:

Opening lecture on China's Muslim Internment Camps: New Evidence and Historical Preconditions

Thu 19 Sep '19

10am - 5pm:

Global Microhistory Network Conference

Mon 16 Sep '19

9:15am - 5:30pm:

UK-China Humanities Alliance international conference

Tue 10 Sep '19

9am - 5:30pm:

Therapeutic Commodities Final Conference

Fri 28 Jun '19

10am - 5pm:

workshop 'Empires and Natural Resources: Contestation, Exploitation and Protection from the 1800s to the present'

Wed 22 May '19

5pm - 7pm:

Global seminar 'History of the Passport'

Tue 21 May '19

11am - 2pm:

Roundtable ''Hindutva: Trans/National and Global Narratives of Hindu Nationalism'

Thu 16 May '19

5pm - 7pm:

Global Annual Lecture 'The Treaty of Versailles and Its Discontents: A Centenary Look Back at the Global 1919'

Wed 08 May '19

1pm - 2pm:

Global Reading Group 'Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian'

Tue 30 Apr '19

4pm - 6pm:

My Voyage around the World: The Atlantic and Pacific Travels of a Late Sixteenth-century Italian Merchant

Wed 24 Apr '19

3pm - 5pm:

Global seminar '"Debating the Great Divergence: Europe's Precocious and China's Late Transition to Modern Economic Growth, 1644-1846"

Wed 13 Mar '19

5pm - 7pm:

Global seminar ‘Authenticity and Ethnodrama: Exporting Native American Identity’

Wed 06 Mar '19

5pm - 7pm:

Global seminar ‘The world in questions. Questionnaires and the History of Knowledge in the Early Modern’

Fri 01 Mar '19

10am - 6pm:

workshop on The British Empire: Networks, Mobilities, Cultures

Thu 28 Feb '19

5pm - 7pm:

Global seminar: The Ends of War: the Returning Soldier and Labourer, Prof Radhika Singha (Jawaharlal Nehru University )

Wed 27 Feb '19

1pm - 2pm:

Global Reading Group: Federico Marcon, The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

Tue 26 Feb '19

4pm - 6pm:

GHCC - CHM joint seminar 'Relistening: Finding Health Memories in Extant Migrant Oral Histories'

2pm - 4pm:

Masterclass ‘Identity documents: Local, Regional and International Protocols’

Fri 22 Feb '19

10am - 5pm:

workshop on 'Globalization of Sportswear: Brand Marketing, Technology and Cultural Agenda, 20th-21st Century’

Thu 14 Feb '19

14/02 - 15/02:

Mapping the Global Imaginary

Thu 31 Jan '19

1pm - 3pm:

Workshop on 'Secret History of Drug Trade'

Thu 24 Jan '19

1pm - 3pm:

Roundtable History and Design 3 ’18 Century Banyans and Casta Paintings’

Wed 23 Jan '19

3:30pm - 6pm:

My Voyage around the World: The Atlantic and Pacific Travels of a Late Sixteenth-Century Italian Merchant

1pm - 2pm:

Global History reading group 'Oceanic Histories'

Thu 17 Jan '19

4pm - 6pm:

GHCC - EMECC joint seminar The Tasman Sea in an Age of Revolution, Empire and Counter-Revolt

Wed 09 Jan '19

4:30pm - 6:30pm:

New Year's Lecture on Red Globalism: Eastern Europe, Decolonization and African Heritage

Sat 08 Dec '18

10am - 6pm:

Workshop ' Gifts and Tribute in Early Modern Diplomacy: Global Perspectives'

Fri 07 Dec '18

10am - 5pm:

Japan-Warwick Global History Collaboration

Wed 28 Nov '18

1pm - 2pm:

Global Reading Group

Tue 27 Nov '18

1pm - 3pm:

PG Masterclass with Guido van Meersbergen and Georgia O'Connor: Using diplomatic sources: The Norris Embassy to India (1699-1702)

Fri 23 Nov '18

10am - 5pm:

Workshop 'Ordinary Blues and Uniformed Reds: Colours and Clothes in Circulations c.1650-1914 '

Tue 13 Nov '18

3pm - 5pm:

Speaking across the 'Eternal Divide': A Conversation on Goals and Methods in Global History and Politics

Wed 31 Oct '18

1pm - 2pm:

GHCC New Members Introductions

Wed 24 Oct '18

2pm - 6pm:

Workshop 'Comparative state formation: The Legitimation of Early Modern States: England (1530-1750), Japan (1660-1895), and China (1684-1911)'

Wed 17 Oct '18

5pm - 7pm:

Global Aesthetics

1pm - 2pm:

Global Reading Group : ‘Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States’

Wed 03 Oct '18

4:30pm - 6:30pm:

New Members Introductions, Start of Year Reception

Thu 13 Sep '18

10am - 4pm:

At Warwick: The secret study for the global south: espionage, covert action and state security during the cold war

9:30am - 7pm:

In Florence: Global Microhistory 2 - Global Empires, Global Courts: Explorations in Politics and Religion

Wed 12 Sep '18

9:45am - 4pm:

Roundtable History & Design 2: Kosode & Banyans. Contested World Views in an Attire c1580-1910

Thu 21 Jun '18

10am - 5pm:

Workshop on Between & Beyond: Transnational Networks and the British Empire, Ca 18-20th Century

Wed 20 Jun '18

12pm - 2pm:

Global seminar Dressing for the Early Modern City: Cheap Cotton, Flashy Outfits, and Scary Young Women in Edo and the World

Thu 14 Jun '18

10am - 4pm:

AMNESTY TO COUNTER INSURGENCY: GLOBAL COMPARISONS IN THE COLONIAL CONTEXT SINCE 1945

Wed 30 May '18

1pm - 2pm:

Global Reading Group

Wed 23 May '18

5pm - 7pm:

Global History seminar 'A (Global?) History of the Passport' - CANCELLED

Fri 18 May '18

9:30am - 4:30pm:

A Different Point of View: Scales, Spaces and Contexts in Histories of the Local and the Global

Thu 17 May '18

5pm - 7pm:

Global History Public Lecture on 'Catholic Geographies of the Global’

10am - 12pm:

PG Masterclass on 'Re-Writing Material Culture History'

Wed 09 May '18

1pm - 2pm:

Global lunchtime talk 'Chinese Perceptions and Historiography of the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-45'

Sat 05 May '18

9:30am - 6:30pm:

The Masculine Worlds of Race and Power: Objects, Practices and Emotions in Colonial and Post-Colonial Societies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Wed 02 May '18

1pm - 2pm:

Global Reading Group

Fri 16 Mar '18

10:30am - 6:30pm:

'Public Office in Britain and its Empire, c.1550-c.1900'

Thu 01 Mar '18

5pm - 7pm:

Shadow Networks: Labour, Capital and Pearling in the Indian Ocean

Wed 28 Feb '18

1pm - 2pm:

Global Reading Group - CANCELLED

Wed 21 Feb '18

1pm - 2pm:

Global seminar 'Indian Textiles in West Africa, 1750-1850: A South-South Economic History'

Tue 20 Feb '18

10:30am - 1pm:

Forgotten Connections: Linking Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Worlds in the Early Modern Period

Wed 07 Feb '18

1pm - 2pm:

Global Reading Group

Tue 06 Feb '18

4pm - 6pm:

Where There Is No Incinerator: Histories of Biomedical Disposability and Reuse on the African Continent

Wed 31 Jan '18

1pm - 2pm:

Introduction by new members

Tue 16 Jan '18

2pm - 2pm:

Workshop Global Humanities

Wed 10 Jan '18

4:30pm - 7pm:

Global seminar 'Who Was Ahmed Khan? Hospitality and Identification between Europe and India during the Age of Revolutions

Fri 08 Dec '17

12pm - 3:30pm:

The War of the Locust, 1940-45: an interdisciplinary workshop

Wed 29 Nov '17

12:30pm - 2pm:

Lunch with CNU scholars

Global History Centre Undergraduate Open Day

Wed 22 Nov '17

1pm - 2pm:

Global History Reading Group: Geoffrey Parker 'Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century'

Wed 15 Nov '17

1pm - 2pm:

Introduction by new members

Wed 01 Nov '17

4:30pm - 6:30pm:

Development as Global Distributive Justice: A Twentieth-Century History

1pm - 2pm:

Global History Reading group on 'What is Global History Now?'

Thu 26 Oct '17

5pm - 7pm:

Slavery and Industrialisation: The ‘New History of Capitalism’ and Eric Williams’ Slavery and Capitalism

Fri 20 Oct '17

5:30pm - 7:30pm:

Transnational History and Japan’s “Comparative Advantage”

Wed 18 Oct '17

1pm - 2pm:

Introduction by new members

Wed 11 Oct '17

9am - 5pm:

CURATING HISTORY: What Happens When Curators and Scholars Brought Together in Museums

Wed 04 Oct '17

5pm - 7pm:

GHCC welcome reception

Thu 28 Sep '17

10am - 5pm:

Humanitarianism and Charity: Expressions of or Alternatives to Socioeconomic Rights

Thu 22 Jun '17

1pm - 5pm:

Documenting Westerners in Nineteenth-Century China & Japan: New Sources and Perspectives

Mon 19 Jun '17

9am - 4pm:

Drugs, Politics and Society: The Reginal History of the Mexican Drug Trade

Wed 24 May '17

5pm - 7pm:

Public lecture by Susanna Burghartz on '‘The Veil in Early Modern Europe’

12pm - 1:30pm:

PG Masterclass on ‘Straits and Passages as Global Sites in 1600’ with Susanna Burghartz

Tue 23 May '17

12pm - 1:30pm:

Round table on ‘The de Bry Travel Narrative and Engravings as a European Project on Identity, Superiority and Rivalry in Global Perspective’ with Susanna Burghartz

The Future of World and Global History

Fri 19 May '17

9am - 5pm:

Workshop on 'Global Commodities & Africa in the Long 19th Century, 1770s - 1930s'

Thu 18 May '17

5:30pm - 7:30pm:

Global Annual Lecture by Paul Lane 'Desirable Teeth - Archaeological Perspectives on the Global Trade in Elephant Ivory'

Thu 11 May '17

10am - 12pm:

PG Masterclass on 'Community Research, Race and HGousing'

Wed 10 May '17

2pm - 5pm:

Round table on 'Europe and Africa'

Tue 09 May '17

2pm - 5pm:

Round table on 'Polanyi'

Mon 08 May '17

2pm - 4pm:

PG Masterclass on 'Decolonising theory'

Thu 04 May '17

5pm - 7pm:

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal on ‘Toward a Cultural History of Atlantic Revolutions, c. 1760-1820’

Wed 19 Apr '17

1:15pm - 5pm:

Global Inequality: A Divided History

Mon 20 Mar '17

10am - 5pm:

Workshop on 'Arguments for the against Socioeconomic rights, Past and Present'

Wed 08 Mar '17

5pm - 7pm:

Global Lecture 'Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices and Expertise, 1500-1950'

12pm - 1:30pm:

PG Masterclass on 'use of Emmanuel Ximenez as an example of how to study an individual and a city in a global context’

Tue 07 Mar '17

12pm - 1:30pm:

Round table on 'Reconstructing Historical Artifacts'

Fri 03 Mar '17

12pm - 7pm:

Poverty Network workshop on 'Empires of Charity'

Tue 28 Feb '17

1pm - 2pm:

Global History Reading Group: Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300-1800

Fri 24 Feb '17

10am - 5pm:

Workshop on 'Innovation in the Pre-Modern World: Knowledge, Design and Products'

Wed 22 Feb '17

12pm - 2pm:

PG Masterclass: Comparative History: Language and Master in Global Studies of Technology and Innovation

Tue 21 Feb '17

5pm - 7pm:

Dagmar Schaefer on 'For substance or health: medical substances for animals in 15th c Ming Dynasty'

12pm - 1:30pm:

Roundtable on 'Science and Technology in Global History: the Development of an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda'

Fri 10 Feb '17

9:30am - 6pm:

Workshop on 'Ottoman History in a Global Context, 1400-1800

Thu 02 Feb '17

9am - 1pm:

Online PG workshop 'Between Local, Transregional and Global Materiality'

Wed 01 Feb '17

11am - 6pm:

Workshop on 'Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia'

Tue 31 Jan '17

5pm - 7pm:

Rebecca Earle on 'What did it Mean to call a Food "Nutritious" in the Eighteenth Century?'

Wed 18 Jan '17

1pm - 2pm:

Reading Group: The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population

Tue 17 Jan '17

5pm - 7pm:

Poverty Network guest seminar '‘Rethinking the Link Between Poverty and Colonialism: the African Red Sea Littoral since the Nineteenth Century’

Thu 12 Jan '17

5pm - 7pm:

Simon Ditchfield 'on Writing a History of the Counter-Reformation for a Post-Colonial Age'

Tue 10 Jan '17

5pm - 7pm:

Daniel Grey on 'She bears the taunts and gets the blame:infertility in contemporary India'

Wed 30 Nov '16

5pm - 7pm:

Jonathan Vickery on ‘Understanding Poverty as Aesthetic Deprivation: empirical and theoretical issues’

Mon 28 Nov '16

1pm - 6pm:

Symposium on 'Food in Global History: Methodological Approaches'

Wed 23 Nov '16

1pm - 2pm:

Reading Group: Debt: The First 5000 Years

Thu 17 Nov '16

5pm - 7pm:

Julia McClure on 'The Alternate Divergence: poverty in global history'

Wed 16 Nov '16

5pm - 7pm:

Michael Keevak on 'Why Are East Asians Called Yellow?'

Thu 10 Nov '16

10am - 5pm:

workshop on 'Health, Well-Being and Subsistence in the History of Socioeconomic Rights, Duties and Obligations'

Thu 03 Nov '16

5pm - 7pm:

CANCELLED - Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia on 'Corporate Constitutionalism and the Dialogue between the Global and Local in Seventeenth-Century English History'

Mon 24 Oct '16

5:30pm - 7:30pm:

Francesca Trivellato on 'Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe'

Thu 13 Oct '16

1pm - 2pm:

Reading Group 'What is Global History?'

Tue 11 Oct '16

5pm - 7pm:

William Pettigrew on 'Corporate Constitutionalism and the Dialogue between the Global and Local in Seventeenth Century English History'

Wed 07 Sep '16

1pm - 2pm:

Reading Group: The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population, (2016)

Thu 30 Jun '16

12pm - 6pm:

The Aesthetics of Poverty

Fri 27 May '16

9:30am - 5pm:

Workshop 'Economic Change in Global History, 1500-2000'

Wed 25 May '16

5pm - 7pm:

Towards A Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution: Work In (Slow) Progress

12pm - 1:30pm:

The Age of the Anthropocene: the role of the past and the way forward

Tue 24 May '16

12pm - 1:45pm:

Interdisciplinary lunch-time talk and discussion on ‘Ecology, Economy and Global History’

Fri 20 May '16

5pm - 7pm:

The Role of Domains in Transferring and Building Manufacturing Systems in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)

Thu 19 May '16

9am - 5pm:

Who Pays? Socioeconomic Rights, Political Economy and the Politics of Taxation

Wed 18 May '16

5pm - 7pm:

The end of the beginning: Development cooperation in a new era

Fri 13 May '16

11am - 7pm:

One-day PG workshop on 'Researching East Africa'

Thu 12 May '16

5pm - 7pm:

Public Lecture 'Global Processes and Spatial Reconfiguration'

Wed 11 May '16

1pm - 2pm:

Global Reading Group: History Meets Biology

Tue 10 May '16

4pm - 6pm:

Creolizing the Sinophone Pacific

Wed 27 Apr '16

12:30pm - 6pm:

Crossroads of Asia: Travel Narratives to Siam from European, Persian and Chinese Sources

Mon 11 Apr '16

10am - 5:30pm:

Gem in Transit: Materials, Values and Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Wed 16 Mar '16

5pm - 7pm:

What are the implications of the terms we use: poverty, inequality, austerity or precarity?

Thu 10 Mar '16

5pm - 7pm:

Poverty Network Inaugural Lecture: Jason Hickel, "Rethinking Development: How the aid industry misses the point about poverty."

Wed 02 Mar '16

5pm - 7pm:

Global History and Culture Centre Annual Lecture

Fri 26 Feb '16

4pm - 1pm:

Workshop: The Space Between: Connecting Microhistory and Global History

Wed 24 Feb '16

5pm - 7pm:

Joint Research Seminar with the European History Research Seminar Series: Dr David Todd (KCL)

Tue 23 Feb '16

5pm - 6:30pm:

Who Owns History? Can History be Owned?

Wed 17 Feb '16

2pm - 5pm:

Concurrences and Connections: symposium on using historical research to develop theoretical perspectives in the social sciences

Tue 16 Feb '16

10am - 5pm:

The Novel, the Periodical Press, and the Global Circulation of Texts, 1789-1945

Thu 11 Feb '16

5pm - 7pm:

Joint Research Seminar with the Eighteenth Century Research Seminar Series: Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith (St Andrews)

Wed 10 Feb '16

1pm - 2pm:

Reading Group: Phil Hoffman, Why did Europe Conquer the World

Wed 27 Jan '16

5pm - 7pm:

The Invention of Sustainability

Wed 20 Jan '16

1pm - 2pm:

Reading Group: Vivek Chibber Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

Wed 02 Dec '15

1pm - 2pm:

Reading Group: Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, eds., Asia Inside Out (Harvard, 2015)

Wed 18 Nov '15

5pm - 7pm:

The Carceral Archipelago: a global history of convicts and penal colonies

Wed 04 Nov '15

1pm - 2pm:

Reading Group: Noel Malcolm, Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (Oxford, 2015)

Wed 21 Oct '15

5pm - 6pm:

Global History Centre start of term welcome party

Fri 16 Oct '15

1:30pm - 3:30pm:

Metiers, Organisation du Travail et Sous-Traitance

Wed 27 May '15

5pm - 7pm:

Croesus' World: Human Rights and the Age of Inequality

Tue 26 May '15

9am - 1pm:

The History of Socio-Economic Rights

Sat 23 May '15

11am - 5pm:

The Age of Labour? Workers and Politics in Twentieth-Century South Asia

Thu 21 May '15

5pm - 7pm:

Population and Global History

Mon 18 May '15

9am - 5pm:

Gems in Transit: Materials, Techniques, and Trade, 1400-1800

Thu 07 May '15

5:10pm - 7:10pm:

The Global History of la France Profonde: Languedoc in the Eighteenth Century

Thu 05 Mar '15

5pm - 7pm:

Harem Histories and Princely Politics: Tipu Sultan, the Family and East India Company Rule

Wed 04 Mar '15

5pm - 7pm:

Brahmins, Brothers or Lovers? British Prisoners of War and their contacts with Napoleonic France

Thu 05 Feb '15

6pm - 8pm:

Boko Haram and the Future of Nigeria

1pm - 1:15pm:

The Spaces of Luxury: Places, Spaces and Geographies from the Renaissance to the Present

Fri 23 Jan '15

9am - 1pm:

Translocal and Micro-Histories of Global Labour

Thu 15 Jan '15

5pm - 7pm:

With Great Pomp and Magnificence: Royal Gifts and the Embassies between Siam and France in the 1680s

Fri 12 Dec '14

1pm - 5pm:

The global life of a soya bottle

Wed 03 Dec '14

5pm - 7pm:

From World History to World Literature: China, the South and the Global 1960s

Thu 27 Nov '14

3pm - 5pm:

The Global Trade of Textiles and Clothing in the Early Modern Period: Exchange, Meaning and Materialities

Wed 26 Nov '14

5pm - 7pm:

The First Global Order: Imagining the British Empire of Law

12pm - 2pm:

Law and Global History

Tue 28 Oct '14

10:30am - 4:30pm:

Security, stability & conflict management in UK-Africa relations

Wed 22 Oct '14

5pm - 7pm:

Orangutans and Black Slaves in Global Perspective: Chanllenging the Boundaries of Humankind at the end of the Eighteenth Century

Thu 16 Oct '14

5pm - 7pm:

Jan de Vries on The Great Divergence followed by Reception

Wed 15 Oct '14

4:30pm - 6pm:

The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Old Debates and New Perspectives

Fri 10 Oct '14

10am - 1pm:

A Human Right to Health and/or Health Care? Challenges and Possibilities

Thu 25 Sep '14

9am - 5pm:

Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in the Early Modern World

Mon 22 Sep '14

2pm - 1:30pm:

European Court and State Manufactures in a Global Perspective, 1400-1800

Mon 07 Jul '14

9am - 2pm:

Subimperial Formations of Medicine:Taiwan and Korea

Fri 13 Jun '14

3:30pm - 5:30pm:

Workshop on ‘The Place of Africa in Global History’

Wed 11 Jun '14

5pm - 6:30pm:

Public lecture 'Locating the Indian Ocean'

Mon 09 Jun '14

3pm - 6:30pm:

Workshop on 'Violence and Identity in Kenya'

Thu 22 May '14

5pm - 7pm:

Big Data in History

11am - 12:30pm:

Postgraduate and Postdoctoral book discussion

Wed 21 May '14

Contacts and Comparisons between the Middle East and South Asia

Tue 20 May '14

5pm - 7pm:

Evangelical Empires and the Search for the Muslim Gutenberg

Thu 15 May '14

9am - 5pm:

Health and Human Rights in a Global Perspective

Wed 07 May '14

10am - 5:30pm:

'The Geography of Luxury: East, West and Global Directions'

Wed 30 Apr '14

12pm - 2pm:

‘Coffee Worlds: Global Players and Local Actors in 20th-Century Germany’

Thu 24 Apr '14

3pm - 4pm:

Allies and Exits: Local collaborators after rebellion and counterinsurgency, 1914-2014

Fri 14 Mar '14

9am - 5pm:

Alien Nations: Identities and Empires in Global History

Thu 27 Feb '14

1pm - 5pm:

Japan, Asia and the World Trading System in the Long Nineteenth Century

Wed 19 Feb '14

1pm - 3pm:

Global Research Exchange - postponed

Wed 29 Jan '14

2pm - 6pm:

Human Rights in Global History

Tue 21 Jan '14

5pm - 7pm:

The Memorialisation of 15th-and 16th-century European Sites Connected to Black Africans

12pm - 3pm:

Travel Writing and Multiple Interpretations: A Workshop Using Anna Maria Falconbridge's Diary

Thu 12 Dec '13

9:45am - 1:45pm:

The Regulation of Luxury: Morality, The State and the Law

Wed 27 Nov '13

4:30pm - 7pm:

African Responses to Global Challenges

Wed 13 Nov '13

1pm - 3pm:

Global Research Exchange

Wed 09 Oct '13

1pm - 2pm:

Peter the Great's Campaign to Promote Smoking

Thu 04 Jul '13

10am - 5pm:

The Production of Luxury: Skills, Materials, and Networks