Converting Emotions: Possession and Power in Female Missionaries’ Writing about Native Converts

Angharad Eyre (Queen Mary, University of London)

Reshaping the past: the lingering colonial present

Tom Bentley (University of Sussex)

Racism – a Global History

Professor Bethencourt formerly headed the Biblioteca Nacional of Lisbon and the Gulbenkian Cultural Centre in Paris. He is now the Charles Boxer Professor of History at King’s. His many works on imperial, intellectual and cultural history include The Portuguese Overseas Expansion (with Diogo Curto) and a pioneering recent book on The Inquisition: a Global History. He is working on the history of racism.

Francisco Bethancourt (King's College London)

10 March 2010

The Mediterranean and Mediterraneans in Global History

Peregrine Horden (Professor in Medieval History, Royal Holloway) chairs the panel. Nick Purcell (Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford) will initiate the discussion.

David Abulafia (Professor of Mediterranean History, Cambridge), Cyprian Broodbank (Disney Professor of Archaeology, Cambridge), and Paolo Luca Bernardini (Professor of History, Bergamo).

19 February 2015

The Syrian Global Diaspora: Migrants from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan since the 1880s

Audio Quality: please note the audio quality of this particular podcast is not optimal The Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa has made many fundamental contributions on the history of commodities and labour, including Islam and the Abolition of Slavery and Cocoa and Chocolate.

William Clarence-Smith

14 March 2011

Myths of Eurocentrism and Material Progress

Professor O’Brien founded the IHR Global History Seminar when he was Director of the IHR. He is the Centennial Professor of Economic History at the LSE and the author of much work of fundamental importance on the practice of global history, the history of industrialization, and imperial economic history.

Patrick O'Brien (London School of Economics)

17 February 2010

Manchurian Candidates: Brainwashing, the Cold War, and the History of the Psy Professions

Daniel Pick (Professor of History, Birkbeck)

12 February 2015

Dr Irving has been exploring the problems of writing about the music as part of cultural history in his groundbreaking book, Colonial Counterpoint, about music in the Philippines under Spanish rule, and a series of lectures at Cambridge on the globalization of music in the early modern period. Audio Quality: please note the audio quality of this particular podcast is not optimal

D. R. M. Irving (Christ´s Coll., Cambridge)

30 March 2010

The Ugly Renaissance

Dr Lee will talk about his iconoclastic new book and set the Renaissance in global context

Alex Lee (Warwick)

27 February 2013

The Consumption of Culture – a Global History

NOTE: The final part of this talk is missing. Professor Trentmann directed the research programme ‘Cultures of Consumption’ and is the editor of OUP’s forthcoming history of consumption. Among his many works in the field are Free Trade Nation and Before ‘Fair Trade’. He edited Food and Globalization with Alexander Nützenadel.

Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck)

17 March 2010