Patricia Clavin (Professor of International History, Oxford) gives a lecture on history and public policy. Part of Panel 6 (wrap up reflection): History and Public Policy Chair: Andrew Thompson (Oxford)

Jeremy Adelman (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton) gives a lecture on history and public policy. Part of Panel 6 (wrap up reflection): History and Public Policy Chair: Andrew Thompson (Oxford)

Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia) gives a lecture on ‘Strange Legacies of Divergence:  The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910’. Part of Panel 5: Labour and the Household, a Global History Chair: Rowena Olegario (Oxford)

Peter Hill (Northumbria) gives a lecture on ‘Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy’.

Andreas Eckert (Professor of African History, Humboldt-University Berlin) gives a lecture on ‘Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa’. Part of Panel 5: Labour and the Household, a Global History Chair: Rowena Olegario (Oxford)

Joel Mokyr (Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern) gives a lecture on ‘China and the West: Many Great Divergences’. Part of Panel 4: Technology, Institutions and Divergence: Arguments and Counterarguments About Rise and Fall, Success and Failure Chair: Christopher McKenna (Oxford)

Dagmar Schafer (Director, Max Planck Institute) and Giorgio Riello (Professor of Early Modern Global History, EUI) give a lecture on ‘Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe’. Part of Panel 4: Technology, Institutions and Divergence: Arguments and Counterarguments About Rise and Fall, Success and Failure Chair: Christopher McKenna (Oxford)

Patrick O’Brien (Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China’. Part of Panel 4: Technology, Institutions and Divergence: Arguments and Counterarguments About Rise and Fall, Success and Failure Chair: Christopher McKenna (Oxford)

Eli Cook (Assistant Professor of American History, Haifa) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality’. Part of Panel 3: Catastrophe or Liberation? Capitalism or Environment? Anthropocene, Energy, and Global Capitalism Chair: Gareth Austin (Cambridge)

Kaoru Sugihara (Specially Appointed Professor at the Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, Kyoto) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America'’. Part of Panel 2: The Great Divergence: Timing and Causality 20 years later Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)

Bishnu Gupta (Professor of Economics, Warwick) gives a lecture on ‘Asia and the Great Divergence’. Part of Panel 2: The Great Divergence: Timing and Causality 20 years later Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)

Tirthankar Roy (Professor in Economic History, Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Water and the Economic History of India’. Part of Panel 3: Catastrophe or Liberation? Capitalism or Environment? Anthropocene, Energy, and Global Capitalism Chair: Gareth Austin (Cambridge)

William Clarence-Smith (Emeritus Professor of History, SOAS) gives a lecture on ‘Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business’. Part of Panel 3: Catastrophe or Liberation? Capitalism or Environment? Anthropocene, Energy, and Global Capitalism Chair: Gareth Austin (Cambridge)

Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Professor of Economic History, Carlos III University, Madrid) gives a lecture on ‘Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence?’ Part of panel 2: The Great Divergence: Timing and Causality 20 years later Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)

Alejandra Irigoin (Associate Professor in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘The Limits of Reciprocal Comparisons: Money and The Early Modern Period’. Part of Panel 1: The European Miracle or Pre-Orient? Early Modern Convergence Tales as Rival Narratives Chair: James Belich (Oxford)

Rebecca Karl (Professor of History, NYU) gives a lecture on ‘The World Historical in China’s Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality’. Part of Panel 1: The European Miracle or Pre-Orient? Early Modern Convergence Tales as Rival Narratives Chair: James Belich (Oxford)

Andrew Edwards (Career Development Fellow for the Global History of Capitalism project, Oxford) gives a lecture on ‘The Spaces in Between: What is Global about the History of Capitalism?’ Part of Panel 1: The European Miracle or Pre-Orient? Early Modern Convergence Tales as Rival Narratives Chair: James Belich (Oxford)