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

Jan
30

‘Breathing through Water: Sri Lanka and the International Maritime Order’

Bérénice Guyot-Réchard (King's College, London)
Feb
6

‘Seats of Power: Sofas and the Politics of Upholstery in Socialist China, 1950s-1980s’

Jennifer Altehenger (Oxford University)
Feb
13

‘Decline and Fall and Rise: Edward Gibbon and Enslavements’

Linda Colley (Princeton)
Please note that this is a joint seminar with the Modern British History seminar
Feb
20

'The Global South in the East: Imagining a Transnational Political Subject in the Japanese Empire'

Yu Sakai (Faculty of History, Cambridge)
Feb
27

‘Palestinians and Postwar Regeneration, 1948 – 1967’

Mezna Qato (Newnham College, Cambridge)
Mar
6

''The Western Part of the East Indies': Worldmaking and East Indian Cultures of Knowledge at the Dutch Cape Colony, c.1650-c.1720'

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Amsterdam)
Mar
20

'Scholarly Migrants, Textual Entrepôts, and Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean'

Christopher Bahl (Durham University)

At a glance

Term
Lent 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