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 Ma...

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 representati...

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 ...

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, Colo...

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 Modernit...