Global History and Culture Centre Blog
Global History and Culture Centre Blog
Paths of Enslavement, Routes to Freedom
Dr. Camillia Cowling writes on the workshop "Paths of Enslavement, Routes to Freedom: Slavery and Mobility in the Iberian Atlantic World" sponsored by the Global History and Culture Centre and the Humanities Research Fund.
BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2024
Held on the 19th and 20th April 2024, the annual British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Postgraduate Conference took place in the Zeeman Building.
The Marco Polo International Programme
An exciting new project celebrating the 700th anniversary of the death of one of the world鈥檚 great explorers. Alongisde 36 partners, we will be launching a diverse program focusing on travel, material culture, and cross-cultural exchange.
Exhibition Review: Collectible Minerals
Ana茂s Walsdorf reviews the new 鈥楥ollectible Minerals鈥 temporary exhibition at the Mineralogy Museum of Mines Paris – PSL.
Researching Chinese Big 糖心TV in the British Straits Settlements
Jeremy Goh recounts his first experience in researching Chinese businesses based in colonial Singapore, later developed into an article published in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800鈥1939
Guillemette Crouzet and Eva Miller report on the conference 'Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939'.
New Frontiers in Imperial Networks Workshop
Liz Egan, Jim Hulbert, and Catriona Sharples report on the workshop 鈥楴ew Frontiers in Imperial Networks鈥, focused particularly on the place of 鈥渘etworks鈥 in our study of imperialism and colonialism
African Futures: European Conference on African Studies
Rose Miyonga reports on the the ninth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS). The event, which brought together over 2,000 scholars from eighty countries, under the theme of 鈥楢frican Futures'. What emerged from this was a plurality of ways to conceptualise the future – of Africa and more generally – that led to an extremely rich conference programme, which stretched across time frames and spatial dimensions. Several Global History and Culture Centre students, staff and affiliates contributed to ECAS 2023.