Past seminars

A list of past seminars is displayed below.

Autumn 2023

Date Location Speaker / Event Title
WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER (week 2) Laver Building (Level 8, Room 825)  Welcome social

Join us for an informal gathering on the top floor of the Laver Building (level 8, Room 825) to mark the start of the academic year, welcome new researchers, and catch up with old friends. Wine, non-alcoholic drinks, and nibbles provided!

WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER (week 4) Room B310, Amory  Archive Stories

Join our panel of expert historians as they recount their stories from the archive and offer tips for undertaking archival work in imperial and global history.

WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER (week 7) Room B310, Amory Darius Wainwright, University of Bristol

‘Showcasing America, Depicting Iran: Iran, The Smithsonian, and the United States Information Agency, 1963-1970’

Co-hosted with the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies and Art History and Visual Culture

WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER (week 10) Room B310, Amory Grace Redhead, University of Exeter

‘Between ‘Island Laboratories’: Sickle cell, genetic research and ‘race’ at the end of empire’

WEDNESDAY 13 DECEMBER (week 12) Room B310, Amory Postgraduate research symposium

Join us as post-graduate researchers working on Imperial and Global History at Exeter share their work in progress.

Term 2 2022/23

Date Location Speaker  Title
WEDNESDAY 25 JANUARY Amory B218 Lu Chen, Sebastian Fonseca, & Andrea Espinoza Carvajal

Retelling Global Histories of Health: a panel discussion with Connecting3Worlds postdoctoral researchers

Co-hosted with the Centre for Medical History

*THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY*

Postponed due to industrial action

Seminar Room 2, The Forum

Kim Wagner | Queen Mary, University of London

‘“The most illuminating thing I have ever seen”: Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906’

Co-hosted with the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict

*WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY*  

Postponed due to industrial action

Pearson Teaching Room, Building:One Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman “Gay Lesson One: Section 28 was an anti-black law”
WEDNESDAY 8 MARCH Pearson Teaching Room, Building:One Remi Rana Allen | University of the Arts, London

“Recovering Indian Women’s Histories through Creative Practice and Interdisciplinary Research: The Murder Trial of Gurnam Kaur” – Research in Conversation: Remi Rana Allen in conversation with Prof Stacey Hynd

Co-hosted with Art History and Visual Culture

WEDNESDAY 15 MARCH

Postponed due to industrial action

Amory B218

Margot Tudor, Catriona Pennell, & Thomas Owen

“Reckoning with responsibility: the Mesopotamia Commission into British military failings during a moment of imperial transformation, 1916-1919”
WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH Amory B218 PGR Upgrades

 

Join us as post-graduate researchers working on Imperial and Global History at Exeter share their work in progress.

 

 

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2 - 3 June 2025

'Writing Population History in a Time of Planetary Crisis' - Workshop

Digital Humanities Laboratory Add event
19 February 2020

PGR seminar

XFI Conference Room 1 Add event
12 February 2020

Radio and Decolonisation: The Case of Dutch International Broadcasting

Amory B106 Add event
5 February 2020

From Improvident Maternity to Vasectomy: Gender and Family Planning in India, 1952-1977

XFI Conference Room 1 Add event
11 December 2019

Denial and Decolonization: Britain and the afterlives of Indian rule: Dr Yasmin Khan, University of Oxford

XFI Conference Room 2 Add event
4 December 2019

Dr Rebecca Williams: Bodies of Democracy: Population Control, “Unmet Needs”, and Rule by Consent in Post-1947 India

XFI Conference Room 1 Add event
20 November 2019

Gandhi’s Women Satyagrahis: Why do they matter in studying contemporary social-political trends?

XFI Conference Room 1 Add event
6 November 2019

Rehabilitation and planning for decolonisation: Christian Aid, Missionaries, and Mau Mau: Dr Poppy Cullen

Queens Digital Humanities Seminar 2 (B.02) Add event
23 October 2019

Empire and Interior Design in Central Europe and South Asia: Historicism, Modernism and the Vernacular

Queen's Digital Humanities Seminar 2 (B.02) Add event
9 October 2019

Re-Territorialising the Future: Writing Environmental Histories of the Oil Crisis in Africa

Queen's Digital Humanities Seminar 2 (B.02) Add event
27 March 2019

CIGH Seminar: Vivienne Xiangwei Guo, 'Not just "men of guns": Idea exchange and political collaboration between Chen Jiongming and the May Fourth Intellectuals (1912-1922)'

Amory B315 Add event
13 March 2019

CMHS/CIGH seminar: Sujit Sivasundaram, ‘The Age of Revolutions and Empire in the Indian and Pacific Oceans’

Queens Building LT4.2 Add event
27 February 2019

CIGH seminar: Julio Decker (Bristol), 'Lines of Power? Railroads and Territoriality in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1914'

Amory B315 Add event
13 February 2019

CIGH Seminar: David Anderson, 'Reparative Histories of Colonial Violence: Claim-making and Truth-seeking from Europe's Imperial Past'

Streatham Court 0.28 Add event
30 January 2019

CIGH seminar: Emil Sokolov and Robert Guyver, 'The Commonwealth in Post-Colonial Britain'

Amory B315 Add event
16 January 2019

CIGH seminar: Silvia Espelt-Bombin, 'Deconstructing a European Frontier: Indegenous-European Interactions between Brazil and French Guiana (17th-18th centuries)

Amory B315 Add event
5 December 2018

CIGH Seminar: Settler colonialism and the representation of indigeneity: the cases of French Algeria and Israel/Palestine

Amory B315 Add event
21 November 2018

CIGH Seminar: Patchwork Cities: Urban Ethnic Segregation in the Global South in the Age of Steam

Amory B315 Add event
14 November 2018

CIGH Seminar: The Myth of the Grand Alliance in World War II

Amory B315 Add event
7 November 2018

CIGH Seminar: Constructing the “City of International Solidarity”: Non-aligned Internationalism, the United Nations and Visions of Development, Modernism and Solidarity, 1955-1975

Amory B315 Add event
24 October 2018

CIGH Seminar: Sex, Secrets, and Savant: Exploring Sexualities in Early Modern South Asia 1650-1750

Amory B315 Add event
10 October 2018

CIGH seminar: Colonial Violence and the Limits of the Law

Amory B315 Add event
26 September 2018

CIGH Seminar: Unruly Affects: Tracing Love and Melancholia in Israeli Settler Colonialism

Amory B315 Add event
24 May 2017

The Untied Kingdom: A World History of the End of Britain

Building:One Add event
25 May 2016

'Globalization and Divergence over five millennia'.

Building:One Matrix Lecture Theatre Add event
23 March 2016

‘Blavatsky’s global networks: The Theosophical Society and Empire’

Amory A239AB Add event
16 March 2016

'Globalising African Girlhoods' Roundtable

Amory A239AB Add event
9 March 2016

Work in progress on Taiwan

Amory A239AB Add event
24 February 2016

Politics and the Anti-Colonial Dead in Modern India

Amory A239AB Add event
17 February 2016

Theodore Roosevelt's Second Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: Humanitarian Intervention and the U.S. Rise to World Power

Amory A239AB Add event
10 February 2016

Work in Progress: Free Trade Feminism

Amory A239AB Add event
27 January 2016

The Assassin in Chief: Obama’s Drone Legacy

Amory A239AB Add event
20 January 2016

Region, Reservations and Government Recruitment: Democracy and Community in Late Colonial India

Amory A239AB Add event
13 January 2016

"The Heartland Myth Revisited: American Isolationism as Seen through the Most Local of Places”

Amory A115 Add event
6 January 2016

The Heartland Myth Revisited: American Isolationism as Seen through the Most Local of Places

Amory A115 Add event
11 December 2015

The United States and the Islamic World, 1821-1921

Amory A115 Add event
2 December 2015

The Rhetoric of Empire: Managing Imperial Conflict between Britain and France

Amory A115 Add event
18 November 2015

Making Thatcher's World

Queens Building LT6.1  Add event
3 - 4 November 2014

Alternative Encounters: The 'Second World' and the 'Global South', 1945-1990s

Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena Add event