GHCC » Events and Activities in the Global History and Culture Centre: Calendar

29/04 12:30pm-2pm: GHCC seminar: Mattin Biglari (Bristol), Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933-51

Amy Evans — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:34:09 GMT

When: 12:30pm - 2pm, Wed, 29 Apr '26

Where: H0.03 Humanities Building

05/05 10:30am-5pm: GHCC workshop, 'Does the History of China Need to be Decolonized?'

Amy Evans — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:12:12 GMT

When: 10:30am - 5pm, Tue, 05 May '26

Where: R0.03/0.04 Ramphal Building

10.30: welcome and coffee

11.00 - 12.30 Professor Chen Hao (Department of History, SJTU), ‘Does the History of China need to be decolonized? An Inquiry into Methodology’

1.00 – 2.30 Lunch for speakers and invited guests

2.30 to 5.15: round-table discussion on decolonizing Chinese History

· 2.30 – 4.00: short (5-10 min) introductions about ongoing research from participants:

o Jeremy Goh (History, ��TV)

o Chen Fei’er (��TV & Southeastern University)

o Cheng Huirong (Edinburgh)

o Shi Jingwen (LSE)

o Huang Shengzhe (Law, ��TV)

· 4.00 – 4.15: tea and cakes

· 4.00 – 5.00 round-table discussion: ‘Does the History of China need to be decolonized?

o Rachel Silberstein (SOAS)

o Chen Song-Chuan (��TV)

o Anne Gerritsen (��TV)

o Stephen McDowall (Edinburgh)

13/05 12:30pm-2pm: Seminar: Michael Goebel (FU Berlin), “Contingent Nation-States: Popular Sovereignty and the Breakup of Empires in Global History”

Amy Evans — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:34:45 GMT

When: 12:30pm - 2pm, Wed, 13 May '26

Where: OC1.08 Oculus Building,

15/05: UK Latin America Historians Conference

Amy Evans — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:35:37 GMT

When: Fri, 15 May '26

Where: TBC

19/05 2pm-4pm: GHCC Annual General Meeting

Amy Evans — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:42:50 GMT

When: 2pm - 4pm, Tue, 19 May '26

Where: OC0.05 Oculus Building

19/05 4:30pm-6pm: GHCC Annual Lecture: Martin Dusinberre (Zurich)

Amy Evans — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:41:10 GMT

When: 4:30pm - 6pm, Tue, 19 May '26

Where: OC0.01 Oculus Building

20/05 1pm-2pm: GHCC/Map History Research Group seminar: Luca Scholz (University of Manchester), 'A Digital History of Weather Modification (1700 - 1914)'

Amy Evans — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:36:36 GMT

When: 1pm - 2pm, Wed, 20 May '26

Where: FAB5.01 Faculty of Arts Building

20/05 3pm-5pm: GHCC / Map History Group Masterclass: Luca Scholz (University of Manchester), 'Critical Digital Cartography as Historical Method'

Amy Evans — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:37:47 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Wed, 20 May '26

Where: FAB3.26

An interactive masterclass aimed primarily (but not exclusively) at PGRs and ECRs

27/05 12pm-2pm: GHCC/Groningen Roundtable: Photographing violence: Soldier-photographers as perpetrators and witnesses during the Algerian War, 1954-1962 with Rachel M. White (University of Groningen) and Susie Protschky (VU Amsterdam)

Amy Evans — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:50:02 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Wed, 27 May '26

Where: FAB3.26 Faculty of Arts Building

08/06 9:30am-09/06 5:30pm: Historicising the Non-Human

Amy Evans — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:23:29 GMT

When: 9:30am, Mon, 08 Jun '26 - 5:30pm, Tue, 09 Jun '26

Where: OC1.06 & OC1.04

09/06 1pm-6pm: ��TV-Stellenbosch Workshop 5, 'Afterlives in the histories of eastern & southern Africa'

Amy Evans — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:24:28 GMT

When: 1pm - 6pm, Tue, 09 Jun '26

Where: OC0.05, Oculus Building

23/06 9:30am-6pm: Wheeler workshop, Travel Writing and its Limits’

Amy Evans — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:41:20 GMT

When: 9:30am - 6pm, Tue, 23 Jun '26

Where: FAB6.02 Faculty of Arts Building

25/06-26/06: GHCC Workshop: Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History

Amy Evans — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:51:06 GMT

When: Thu, 25 Jun - Fri, 26 Jun '26

29/06 9:30am-30/06 5:30pm: GHCC / IGSD conference: Disastrous Pasts and Sustainable Futures: Urban Disasters and Resilience in Historical and Social Scientific Perspectives

Amy Evans — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:15:47 GMT

When: 9:30am, Mon, 29 Jun '26 - 5:30pm, Tue, 30 Jun '26

Where: FAB5.01/ OC0.05

Jointly organised by the Global History and Culture Centre and the Institute for Global Sustainable Development with the support of the Sustainability Spotlight