Institute of Historical Research The Mediterranean and Mediterraneans in global history David Abulafia (Professor of Mediterraneans History, Cambridge) Cyprian Broodbank (Disney Professor of Archaeology, Cambridge) Paolo Luca Bernardini (Professor of History, Bergamo) Peregrine Horden (Professor in Medieval History, Royal Holloway) chairs the panel. Nick Purcell (Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford) will initiate the discussion. The Institute of Historical Research and the...

Institute of Historical Research Manchurian Candidates: Brainwashing, the Cold War, and the History of the Psy Professions Daniel Pick (Professor of History, Birkbeck) The Institute of Historical Research and the University of Notre Dame, with the collaboration of the Centre for Global History, University of Oxford, present a series of seminars in Global History. Global History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research The Ugly Renaissance Alex Lee (Warwick) Dr Lee will talk about his iconoclastic new book and set the Renaissance in global context Global History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Diseases long ago and far away: Does doctor's knowledge answer historians' questions? Chris Hamlin Audio Quality: please note the audio quality of this particular podcast is not optimal Professor Hamlin, who teaches the history of science and of the environment at Notre Dame, is the author of exemplary studies of public health, including A Science of Impurity and Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick. His latest book was Cholera: the...

Institute of Historical Research The Syrian Global Diaspora: Migrants from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan since the 1880s William Clarence-Smith 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. Global History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research The Image of the globe in the Renaissance Peter Barber 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. Global History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research What might a global history of the 20th century look like? Angus Lockyer Dr Lockyer lectures on the history of Japan at SOAS and has written many important and provocative pieces on modern Japanese representations of art, technology and nature. Global History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Synchronocity in Global Development - from Divergence to Convergence Lucy Badalian and Victor Krivorotov Audio Quality: please note the audio quality of this particular podcast is not optimal Global History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Music and Culture - a Global History D.R.M. Irving (Christ's Coll., Cambridge) 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...

Institute of Historical Research Environmental History - a Global Controversy Julia Thomas (Notre Dame) 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. Global History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research The Consumption of Culture - a Global History Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) 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. Global History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Racism - a Global History Francisco Bethencourt (King's College London) 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...

Institute of Historical Research Technology - a Global History David Edgerton (Imperial College London) Professor Edgerton has written some of the most impactful books of recent years on the history of technology, including Warfare State; Science, Technology and British Industrial Decline and the iconoclastic The Shock of the Old. Global History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Trust - a Global History Geoffrey Hosking (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) 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. Global History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Myths of Eurocentrism and Material Progress Patrick O'Brien (London School of Economics) Global History seminar series