GLOBAL HISTORY SEMINARS
The University of London Institute of Historical Research and the University of Notre Dame London Program present a series of seminars in
GLOBAL HISTORY
[Upcoming events][Past events]
22nd February: Simona Valeriani (LSE), “Urban water supply and knowledge systems: a case study in comparative global history”
On behalf of Research Officers Dr Mina Ishizu, Dr Ting Xu, Dr Anjana Singh, and Dr Khodadad Rezakhani, and Professor Patrick O’Brien, Dr Valeriani will present work in progress from the School´s project on “Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Global Histories of Material Progress in the East and the West.”
29th February: Patrick Griffin (Notre Dame), topic tba
The Madden-Henry Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Notre Dame is the author of American Leviathan and The People with No Name and other important contributions to Atlantic history.
7th March: Jeremy Black (Exeter), topic tba
By popular acclaim, the holder of the Established Chair in History at Exeter, who is probably the world´s most productive historian, returns to the seminar.
14th March: Lucy Badalian and Victor Krivorotov (School of Advanced Study), “The Market Pendulum: the Persistent Pattern of Globalizations, Past and Present”
In response to popular demand, the Russian Academicians return to the seminar with an update of their wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of the growth of the global knowledge economy.
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These seminars will take place at the London Centre of the University of Notre Dame, 1 Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HG (off Pall Mall East, west of the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery) on Wednesdays at 5.30 p.m.
The University of Notre Dame invites seminar-goers to wine at the seminar.
Attendance is free, however pre-registration is required. Please email Charlotte Parkyn (cparkyn@nd.edu) to reserve a seat.
Seminar-goers who would like to dine with the speaker afterwards should send a cheque for £40 to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, UND, 1 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG at least a fortnight in advance. Men wear suit and tie to the dinner parties; women are asked to dress accordingly. Enquiries to FELIPE.FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO@nd.edu
Steering Committee: William Clarence-Smith (SOAS), Surekha Davies (Birkbeck), Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Notre Dame), Geoffrey Hosking (SEES, UCL).
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2012 seminars
25th January: Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Brown and Swansea), “Pirates”
The Vasco da Gama Visiting Professor at Brown is the author of an acclaimed book on the Portuguese in Ayutthaya and is at work on a global study of early modern piracy. His new book on Portugal in the global spice trade is imminent.
1st February: Peter Burke (Cambridge), Steve Fuller (Warwick), and Felipe Fernández-Armesto in a panel on Burke´s The Social History of Knowledge: Encylopédie to Wikipedia
Professor Burke is one of the most influential and admired living historians. He joins the Auguste Comte Professor at Warwick University, whose books include Science vs Religion and New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies.
8th February: Chris Bayly (Cambridge), “A Passage to India, 1965-2012”
Sir Christopher Bayly is the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial History at St Catharine´s. His books include Imperial Meridian and The Birth of the Modern World.
15th February: Surekha Davies (Birkbeck), “On Kings and Cannibals: Ethnography, Ethnology and Mapping the Americas in Early Modern Europe”
Dr Davies´s articles on early modern cartography, ethnography, and mirabilia have attracted much admiration. Having completed a book on New World ethnography and maps, she is working on the global history of colonial science.
2011 seminars
7th February: Richard Drayton , "Masked Condominia: Collaboration vs Competition in the Trans-European History of Imperialism."
14th February: John Darwin, “Imperial History and Global History”
21st February: Lucy Badalian and Victor Krivorotov, "Synchronicity in Global Development: from Great Divergence to Convergence?"
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28th February: Angus Lockyer, “What might a global history of the 20th century look like?”
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Dr Lockyer lectures on the history of Japan at SOAS and has written many important and provocative pieces on modern Japanese representations of art, technology and nature.
7th March: Peter Barber, “The image of the globe in the Renaissance.”
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Familiar to UK television audiences for his celebrated documentaries, the Head of Map Collections at the British Library is the author of Tales from the Map Room, and The Lie of the Land. The record-breaking “Magnificent Maps” was the latest of many exhibitions he organized at the Library.
14th March: William Clarence-Smith, “The 'Syrian' global diaspora: migrants from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan since the 1880s.”
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The Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa has made many fundamental contributions on the history of commodities and labour, including Islam and the Abolition of Slavery and Cocoa and Chocolate.
21st March: Chris Hamlin, “Diseases long ago and far way: Does doctors’ knowledge answer historians’ questions?”
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Professor Hamlin, who teaches the history of science and of the environment at Notre Dame, is the author of exemplary studies of public health, including A Science of Impurity and Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick. His latest book was Cholera: the Biography.
28th March: Jeremy Black, “The global history of war.”
Professor Black, of Exeter University, is one of the most prolific, debated and wide-ranging historians in the world. His books include War and the World; Why Wars Happen; and A Military Revolution?
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2010 series of Global History Seminars, presented by the Institute of Historical Research, the University of Notre Dame and the History Department of the University of Warwick
17th February: Patrick O’Brien (LSE): Myths of Eurocentrism and Material Progress.
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Professor O’Brien founded the IHR Global History Seminar when he was Director of the IHR. He is the Centennial Professor of Economic History at the LSE and the author of much work of fundamental importance on the practice of global history, the history of industrialization, and imperial economic history.
24th February: Geoffrey Hosking (UCL): Trust, Distrust and Symbolic Systems
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The speaker is Emeritus Professor of Russian History at SEEES, and author of many major works, including Russia and the Russians and The First Socialist Society. He is at work on a global history of trust.
3rd March: David Edgerton (Imperial): Technology – a global history
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Professor Edgerton has written some of the most impactful books of recent years on the history of technology, including Warfare State; Science, Technology and British Industrial Decline; and the iconoclastic The Shock of the Old.
10th March: Francisco Bethencourt (KCL): Racism – a global history
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Professor Bethencourt formerly headed the Biblioteca Nacional of Lisbon and the Gulbenkian Cultural Centre in Paris. He is now the Charles Boxer Professor of History at King’s. His many works on imperial, intellectual and cultural history include The Portuguese Overseas Expansion (with Diogo Curto) and a pioneering recent book on The Inquisition: a Global History. He is working on the history of racism.
17th March: Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck): Consumption – a global history
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Professor Trentmann directed the research programme ‘Cultures of Consumption’ and is the editor of OUP’s forthcoming history of consumption. Among his many works in the field are Free Trade Nation and Before ‘Fair Trade’. He edited Food and Globalization with Alexander Nützenadel.
24th March: Julia Thomas (Notre Dame): Environmental History – a global controversy
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Professor Thomas teaches Japanese history at the University of Notre Dame. Her book on Japanese Concepts of Nature, Reconfiguring Modernity, won the John Fairbanks Prize. She is at work on a book on the history of Japanese Photography.
31st March: D.R.M. Irving (Christ´s Coll., Cambridge): Music and Culture – a global history
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Dr Irving has been exploring the problems of writing about the music as part of cultural history in his groundbreaking book, Colonial Counterpoint, about music in the Philippines under Spanish rule, and a series of lectures at Cambridge on the globalization of music in the early modern period.
The University of Notre Dame invites seminar-goers to wine. Seminar-goers who would like to dine with the speaker should send a cheque for £40 to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, UND, 1 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG at least a fortnight in advance. Men wear suit and tie to the dinner parties and women are kindly asked to dress accordingly.
Enquiries to FELIPE.FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO@nd.edu
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