History in Conversation

Trust – a Global History

Geoffrey Hosking is Emeritus Professor of Russian History at SSEES, and author of many major works, including Russia and the Russians and The First Socialist Society. He is at work on a global history of trust.

Geoffrey Hosking (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies)

24 February 2010

The Image of the globe in the Renaissance

Familiar to UK television audiences for his celebrated documentaries, the Head of Map Collections at the British Library is the author of Tales from the Map Room, and The Lie of the Land. The record-breaking “Magnificent Maps” was the latest of many exhibitions he organized at the Library.

Peter Barber

7 March 2011

Professor Thomas teaches Japanese history at the University of Notre Dame. Her book on Japanese Concepts of Nature, Reconfiguring Modernity, won the John Fairbanks Prize. She is at work on a book on the history of Japanese Photography.

Julia Thomas (Notre Dame)

24 March 2010

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

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

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

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

Daniel Pick (Professor of History, Birkbeck)

12 February 2015

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

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

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