The Global History and Culture Centre hosted a workshop, organised by Guillemette Crouzet, on Empires and Natural Resources: Contestation, Exploitation and Protection from the 1800s to the present.

A number of members of the History of Science and Technology Hub took part, delivering papers and chairing sessions. Katayoun Shafiee gave a paper on her new project on the history of water management and dam infrastructure in twentieth-century Iran.