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'New Directions in Global History' - (27.09.2012 - 29.09.2012 )
- When:
- 27.09.2012 - 29.09.2012
- Category:
- Non-Departmental Events
- Website:
- http://global.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=382
- Contact Email:
- global@history.ox.ac.uk
- Affiliation:
- Centre for Global History
- Event Type:
- Conference
- Speaker:
- (Various)
Description
Provisional conference programme
| THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER | |
| 8:45am – 9:30am | Registrations, tea/coffee – Foyer and Buttery, Hilda Besse Building |
| 9:30am – 9:45am | Welcome, opening remarks |
| 9:45am – 11:00am | Session 1 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| Arjun Appadurai | |
| Discussant: tbc | |
| 11:00am – 11:30am | Tea/coffee – Buttery, Hilda Besse Building |
| 11:30am – 12:45pm | Session 2 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| Jürgen Osterhammel – ‘Global history and historical sociology – facets of an ambivalent relationship’ | |
| Discussant: John Darwin | |
| 12:45pm – 1:45pm | Lunch – Dining Hall, Hilda Besse Building |
| 1:45pm – 4:15pm | Session 3 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| Nicholas Purcell – ‘Unnecessary dependences: illustrating circulation in pre-modern large-scale history’ | |
| Discussant: Chris Wickham | |
| Bob Moore – ‘A Global Middle Ages?’ | |
| Discussant: Catherine Holmes | |
| 4:15pm – 4:45pm | Tea/coffee – Buttery, Hilda Besse Building |
| 4:45pm – 6:00pm | Session 4 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| John McNeill – ‘Historians and climate change’ | |
| Discussant: James Belich | |
| 6:00pm – 6:30pm | Session 5 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| Concluding discussion led by Patrick O’Brien | |
| Chair: John Darwin | |
| 6:30pm – 7.30pm | Drinks reception – Hilda Besse Building |
| 7:30pm | Conference dinner – Dining Hall, Hilda Besse Building |
| FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER | |
| 9:30am – 10:45am | Session 6 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| Francis Robinson – ‘Global history from an Islamic angle’ | |
| Discussant: Faisal Devji | |
| 10:45am – 11:30am | Tea/coffee – Buttery, Hilda Besse Building |
| 11:30am – 12:45pm | Session 7 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| Linda Colley – ‘The global and the nation state: re-writing the writing of constitutions’ | |
| Discussant: Joanna Innes | |
| 12:45pm – 1:45pm | Lunch – Dining Hall, Hilda Besse Building |
| 1:45pm – 4:15pm | Session 8 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| Maxine Berg – ’Locations of global history: manufacturing diversity in 18th and 21st Century India’ | |
| Discussant: Jane Humphries | |
| Kevin O’Rourke – ‘The economist and global history’ | |
| Discussant: Patrick O’Brien | |
| 4:15pm – 4:45pm | Tea/coffee – Buttery, Hilda Besse Building |
| 4:45pm – 6:00pm | Session 9 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| Ian Morris – ‘Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons: explaining human history?’ | |
| Discussant: Chris Wickham | |
| 6:00pm – 6:30pm | Session 10 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| Concluding discussion led by Naomi Standen | |
| Chair: Robert Fletcher | |
| SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER | |
| 9:15am – 10:30am | Session 11 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| Tony Hopkins – title tbc | |
| Discussant: Stephen Howe | |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Tea/coffee – Buttery, Hilda Besse Building |
| 11:00am – 12:15pm | Session 12 – Nissan Lecture Theatre |
| James Belich – ‘The Black Death and the spread of Europe’ | |
| Discussant: tbc | |
| 12:15pm – 1.30pm | Summative discussion |
| John Darwin, Chris Wickham | |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm | Lunch – Dining Hall, Hilda Besse Building |
