Global History and Culture Centre Blog
Global History and Culture Centre Blog
Religion and knowledge in the Ottoman Empire: GHCC member spotlight
Dr. Henry Clements, new member of the GHCC, reflects on the path that led him to join the Centre.
Global connections of SE Asia: Dynamics of Early Modern and Modern Economic and Social History
GHCC PhD candidates Jeremy Goh, Judy Law and Nitya Gundu report on the global connections of South East Asia in the modern and early modern period.
Tourism and the State in Northern Mexico, 1900-1950
PhD candidate Lewis Twiby uses the case of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez in the US-Mexican border to illustrate the interplay of nationalist discourses, tourist promotion and public policies between 1900 and 1940.
GHCC Publication: The History of Science and the ‘Big Picture’
Dr. James Poskett presents the long-awaited publication of a special issue in The British Journal for the History of Science: Themes, collecting papers from the 2022 GHCC Annual Conference.
Travel Studies and (De)-Coloniality: The Traveller’s Tale workshop, Venice
GHCC director Guido van Meersbergen writes about a workshop that took stock of and reflected on the state of the field of travel (writing) studies in Warwick's Venice campus.
PhD studentship: Wheeler History of Travel Writing Programme
Funded by Warwick alumnus and co-founder of Lonely Planet, Tony Wheeler, the Centre will be hosting 2 new PhD students starting 2025-2026.
East-Central Europe and Global Histories: An Ambiguous Relationship (For Now)
Dr. Anca Cretu, new member of the GHCC, reflects on the relationship between East-Central Europe and global history.
Paths of Enslavement, Routes to Freedom
Dr. Camillia Cowling writes on the workshop "Paths of Enslavement, Routes to Freedom: Slavery and Mobility in the Iberian Atlantic World" sponsored by the Global History and Culture Centre and the Humanities Research Fund.