Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - An Environmental History of the Indian Ocean
  Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Hindutva and the Problem of Hinduism
  Luna Sebastian (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 1: Propagation
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Story of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire
  Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 2: Apocalypse
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill on Women’s Place in Society: Differences, Affinities, and Inspirations
  Elżbieta Filipow (University of Warsaw), Dr Lisa Forsberg
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Hotel Lux: Writing an Intimate History of the Comintern’s Moscow Dormitory, 1924-1929
  Maurice Casey (Queens, Belfast)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - "A Sea of Wealth": Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, the Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace
  Nicholas P. Roberts (Norwich University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:30 - 2021 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: The Persistence of Racism in Liberal Societies: Education, Health Care, and Policing (1/3)
  Professor Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Wednesday 31 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - 2021 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: The Persistence of Racism in Liberal Societies: Education, Health Care, and Policing (2/3)
  Professor Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:30 - Visiting Professorship of Creative Media 2023-24 Lecture
  David Baddiel

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Unsafe Harbour: A Political Ecology of Postwar Marseille
  Venus Bivar (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 3: Allurement
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - 2021 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: The Persistence of Racism in Liberal Societies: Education, Health Care, and Policing (3/3)
  Professor Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 4: Language
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - Ernest Bevin (1881-1951): political biography and grand international narrative
  Anne Deighton (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Fishing for the Past: Histories of Maritime Archaeology and Anthropology in the Indian Ocean
  Tamara Fernando (Stoney Brook University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A Quest for Purity: vegetarianism between Europe, South Asia, and the United States (c. 1850–1957)
  Julia Hauser (Kassel)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 5: Enslavement
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Thinking about 1848
  Please note this lecture is on Tuesday 20 February at Worcester College
  Chris Clark
  Modern History Research Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - France on Trial: the case of Marshall Petain
  Julian Jackson (QMUL)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 6: A new phase
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - The Vagueness of Demandingness Objections
  Hybrid event - all welcome, please register to join in-person or online
  Professor Marcel van Ackeren (Oxford Uehiro Centre Research Associate; Senior Lecturer for Ethics at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy at Wuerzburg University)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Persianate Luxury: The Tangible and Intangible Legacy of the Indian Ocean Wine Trade
  Peter Good (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - What are hate pictures against Jews? Understanding the visual history of Antisemitism
  Uffa Jensen (Technical University, Berlin)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Knowledge and Achievement as Organic Goods (1/3)
  Professor Thomas Hurka
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Degrees of Value in Knowledge and Achievement (2/3)
  Professor Thomas Hurka
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - In Conversation: Robert Gildea & Jim Philips, 'Backbone of the Nation. Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85'
  Please note this discussion is on Wednesday 6 March at Worcester College
  Robert Gildea, Jim Philips
  Modern History Research Seminar

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Changing Shapes of European History: The Modern European History Seminar since the 1980s
  Martin Conway (Oxford), Tom Buchanan (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Knowledge and Achievement as Public Policy Goals (3/3)
  Professor Thomas Hurka
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
  Jatin Dua (University of Michigan)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Cosmopolitan Graves: Thamboosamy Pillai and Legacy Making and Unmaking in British Malaya
  Julia Stephens (Rutgers University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat’s Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
  Ketaki Pant (University of Southern California)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875
  Phillip Gooding (McGill University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire