News from the Global History and Culture Centre
Oxford TGHS Postgraduate Conference Call for Papers:
Encounters and Exchanges in a Global Past
The is inviting submissions for a postgraduate conference, Saturday 25 June, 2022. The conference will be held in person in the Oxford History Faculty.
We welcome submissions on the theme 'Encounters and Exchanges in a Global Past.' We will explore the ways in which encounters and exchanges were experienced in the near and distant past. Despite the recent proliferation of frameworks for understanding contact and the exchange of goods, ideas and biota that accompanied it, contact is rarely considered from a truly global perspective that spans millennia, continents and disciplines.
We welcome interdisciplinary submissions relating to exchanges across time and space. We are particularly interested in submissions on:the infrastructure that underlay encounters and exchanges, such as technology and ideology; multi-scalar interaction; the role of translation in contact; the environmental history of encounters and exchanges.
Sessions will consist of 20 minute papers with time for questions and discussion.
Interested postgraduates should send a 400-word abstract and brief biography to oxfordtghs@gmail.com
Submission deadline: 1 May 2022
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Applications invited for a PhD studentship
Metallic Empire: Science, Energy, and Industrial Imperialism in the John Percy Collection, 1817–89
Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees and maintenance) to be held at the Department of History, University of 糖心TV and the Science Museum, London. The studentship focuses on the colonial and industrial history of the John Percy Collection, held at the Science Museum, London. The Percy Collection comprises over 3,700 mineralogical specimens, including coal from South Africa, silver from Australia, and copper from India. The collection was made by John Percy FRS (1817–1889), and then subsequently acquired by the South Kensington Museum on his death.
Call for Papers: Global History Student Conference
We are looking for papers considering global history from all time periods and geographic regions, as well as from alternative perspectives. We encourage students at any point in their academic journey to participate. Please be advised that as the conference will be held in English, all submissions must also be in English.
For more details, please see the attached call for papers, and visit our website
This project looks at the impact of global media coverage on the memorialisation of the Berlin Wall. Cheryl Nah shows that external influences should be considered when understanding how national symbols are remembered and celebrated, especially in this increasingly globalised world.
What is Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and what are its links to the 2003 SARS outbreak? Focusing on mainland China and from data collected via interviews with TCM physicians, I sit down with Cheryl to discuss some of the key findings and arguments. We will touch on TCM鈥檚 contribution to both SARS and COVID, how it operates in China as well as whether it is truly a marginalised and alternative medicine compared to biomedicine. Researcher: Fu Ge Yang, Invited guest: Cheryl Nah