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Global History Seminars Schedule: Spring 2025

The UCD School of History's Global History Seminar series focuses on aspects of history from around the world and seeks to place them in a global context.

Global History Seminar Schedule Spring 2025

  • 30th January 2025

    Prof. Sarah Badcock (Nottingham): 'Just a crust? Late nineteenth century rural begging and charity in the Romanov Empire.’ *with thanks to Dr. Jennifer Keating*

  • 6th February 2025

    Dr Walter Gam (Leiden): ‘Prostitution’ or Women’s Rights in British Southern Cameroons, c.1930s-1955: Colonial Misunderstandings.’ *with thanks to Dr. Irial Glynn*

  • 20th February 2025

    Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (Galway): "The East Cork Wasteocene: Tracing the 'Small Spaces' of Global History in 1980s Ireland"

  • 3rd April 2025

    Prof. Elisabeth Piller (Freiburg): Food and Hunger. The United States, Europe and the Negotiation of Transatlantic Power, 1943-1949

  • 8th May 2025

    Assoc. Professor Talha Çiçek (UCD): Gendering Rurality in the Middle East: Empire Formation, Global Capitalism and the Agency of Tribal Women in the Late Ottoman Era.