Michaelmas 2017 Term Card

‘THE ENVIRONMENT IN TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY’

Tuesdays, 5pm

Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College

Week 2 (Tuesday, 17th October)

‘Playing with Fire: Heat and Light in the Environmental History of Modern South Asia’

Professor David Arnold (University of Warwick)

Week 3 (Tuesday, 24th October)

Transnational and Global History Post-Graduate Roundtable

Week 5 (Tuesday, 7th November)

‘Deserts, Development and Colonial Control in the Middle East’

Dr. Robert Fletcher (University of Warwick)

Week 6 (Tuesday, 14th November)

‘The Volcano’s Deadly Work: Records of Volcanic Disasters in the

Long Nineteenth Century’

Professor David Pyle (University of Oxford)

Week 8 (Tuesday, 28th November)

‘Britain, the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, and the Battle over Maritime Pollution in the 1960s and 1970s’

Dr. Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes University)

OXFORD TRANSNATIONAL AND GLOBAL

HISTORY SEMINAR

Supported by the Oxford Sudbury Global and Transnational History Fund