Global History and Culture Centre Blog
Global History and Culture Centre Blog
‘Categories’ at work in Global History: What the Japan (JSPS)-Warwick Collaboration (2021-2026) Taught us
This inaugural post is the first in a series highlighting the work we have accomplished as a team in the JSPS-Warwick collaboration. Problematizing categories and terms, this fruitful project has furthered our Centre's global engagement!
Bill Newlin donates £1m to further travel writing research at Warwick
Alongside the Wheeler Travel Writing Programme, this new £1 million donation and rare collection will strengthen global history of travel writing research at Warwick and the GHCC
Canadian Mennonites in Mexico: Migration and Citizenship in a Changing World
Lewis Twiby explores identity politics in the Mexican border, through the lens of Canadian mennonites.
Are we living in another Migration Period? Pandemics, migration and the environmental link
How can global history help us understand the wider implications of pandemics? PGR member Gabriele Rizzi Bastiani explores this question by comparing the history of the Roman Empire to contemporary happenings.
New publication by Dr. Anca Cretu
Congratulations to Dr. Anca Cretu, whose edited volume Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe has just been published by Manchester University Press!
The ‘Devil in Calicut’: Hindu gods in early modern European travel writing
How did early modern travellers construct 'the Other'? UG student Rania Sivaraj explores Ludovico di Varthema's writing and his creation of the 'Devil in Calicut'.
New publications from Prof Susan Carruthers and PGR Jeremy Goh
'Making do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World', by Susan Carruthers, has just been published, plus a new publication by Jeremy Goh.
GHCC Annual Conference: Histories of Violence
Join us on the 29 and 30 May 2025 for our annual conference. In 'Global Histories of Violence', scholars will reflect on the different shapes of violence across space and time.