Global History and Culture Centre
GHCC Annual Conference: Global Histories of Violence, c. 1800-2025
29-30 May 2025
This year, our annual conference will reflect on the different shapes of violence across space and time. Violence is about oppression and domination, but it often means far more than warfare, and in this conference we aim to explore the wide variety of registers through which global violence histories can be recognised and examined. Registration is open here.
About Us
With expertise in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe, the interests of the Global History and Culture Centre's members span the globe. The study of the connections between different regions, peoples, things, and environments in global historical perspective lies at the core of the Centre's activities.
GHCC forms an important part of the Department of History and the wider University of Warwick. Established in 2007, the Centre has been at the forefront of the development of global history as an integral part of the field of history in the UK and internationally.
Read more about the Centre's development and major projects on our new GHCC HistoryLink opens in a new window pages.
Find out more about our current and ongoing research on the GHCC ResearchLink opens in a new window pages and on the GHCC BlogLink opens in a new window.
Research Focus
The Centre also hosts many other research projects and fellowships supported by a variety of funding bodies. We engage in teaching, graduate research, host visiting academic fellows, participate in research networks, and organise symposia, conferences, and seminar series.
Our members' research broadly falls under, but is not confined to, three large thematic clusters:
1. Material Life in a Globalising World
2. Power and Politics in the (Post)-Colonial World
3. Histories of Science and the Environment.
For full details, see our publicationsLink opens in a new window and researchLink opens in a new window pages.