World History

Seminar or event series

The World History seminar is one of the oldest regular research seminars in the Cambridge history array, having its origins in the `Commonwealth and Overseas History Seminar'. The seminar was retitled `World History' in 2006 in recognition of changing intellectual interests and political contexts.

Our scope is very broad but begins from a commitment to places, ideas and people in the global South. In recent years we have featured contributions from around the globe with a particular focus on Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Oceania and the Caribbean. Post-graduates and World History faculty constitute the largest portion of our cohort, in particular students pursuing the MPhil in World History.

A student-led workshop often runs before the Thursday seminar. Drinks after, and the occasional meal out, means that the seminar is a congenial and lively place to meet up and exchange a range of ideas and information. A list of recent seminar-givers can be found in the Archive Downloads below.

Events

Apr
25

Modern Transimperial History

Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute)
May
2

Towards a Global History of Civil Wars: El Salvador

Jeremy Adelman (Cambridge)
May
9

Peter Pan Pachyderms? What a doomed experiment to reintroduce elephants taught us about animal cultures

Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch)
*This is a joint seminar with the Centre of History and Economics. Please note that it will be held in the Graham Storey Room in Trinity Hall at 5pm​
May
16

Lost Traditions of Republicanism in South Africa

Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
May
23

The ‘unwashed multitude’: Comparing colonial crowds in post-emancipation Jamaica and early twentieth-century Cape Town

Ruth Watson (Cambridge),
Jun
6

Interconnected Island Worlds: Iberians’ Encounters with the Austral Lands, 1511-1711

Steph Mawson (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa)

Current downloads

At a glance

Term
Easter Term
When
Thursdays, 5.00 - 7.00pm
Where
Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, unless otherwise indicated
Mailing list
Subscribe here
Convenor(s)
Adrián Lerner Patrón

Seminar series