News from the Global History and Culture Centre

As you may be aware, the Global History and Culture Centre has run a series of blog posts showcasing postgraduate research in global history. You can find the posts here. Following the success of previous paid initiative, we would like to issue another call for contributions. Each successful applicant will be paid a maximum of £250 for their contribution (based on a short-term appointment via Unitemps) upon the publication of a short blog entry, to be written by you, about a topic of your choice. This might be related to your research, or something tangentially connected to your research, or a reworked part of an essay you have already submitted, but it might also review a relevant book or feature an interview. The choice is yours, but you need to make a case to us why this is a suitable piece to publish on our GHCC blog. If you can explain in which way your proposed piece is global, this will count in your favour, but we accept a broad interpretation of what constitutes ‘the global’. The piece should be short (c. 1,000 words) and should have some images, a short blurb and a brief bio statement attached. Please submit your applications no later than Monday 27 February 2023.

An application form can be found here, please submit it to Amy.Evans@warwick.ac.uk

Programme Description

Over the past two decades the field of Global History has become firmly embedded within the historical discipline. However, it has been less successful in moving beyond a Euro-American institutional rootedness and intellectual orientation. Critics have pointed to the Eurocentricity of its conceptual frameworks; the dominance of Anglophone scholarship produced by Global North-based researchers and presses; and the marginalisation of actors, concepts, and perspectives originating in the Global South. Taking these criticisms as a point of departure, this summer school seeks to question what Global History is primarily about, who it is written by, and who it is written for. By questioning the epistemic inequalities and exclusionary processes that shape the field, and considering actors, conceptual tools and historical positions that originate from different parts of the world, we aim to outline a global history that is meaningfully shaped by perspectives from the Global South.

From December 2022 to November 2023, Dr Sandra Araújo (Universidade de Lisboa) will join the Global History and Culture Centre as a Visiting Research Fellow after having been awarded the First Book Grant by the Independent Social Research Foundation (FBG-ISRF) for her project "Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambiqye, 1964-74". Read more about Dr Araújo's work here.

Explore newly uncovered stories of African and Asian children in the care of the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital.

Tiny Traces presents a rich history of London life from 1739-1820, a key period in Britain’s colonial past. Follow the stories of more than a dozen children from the African and Asian diasporas through personal items, physical artefacts, works of art and archival documents. Visitors can also explore the circumstances surrounding their admission to the Hospital, including the parents’ lives, the Hospital’s ties to Empire and the wider picture of colonial Britain.

Curated by Warwick PhD researcher Hannah Dennett

30 Sep 2022 - 19 Feb 2023

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Completing the shortlist is Horizons: A Global History of Science in which James Poskett, Associate Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick, challenges the traditional Eurocentric narrative in a radical retelling of the history of science and celebrates scientists from Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific and the parts they played in this story. This is his first book for a general readership.