Faculty of History

Most of the experience of humanity is contained in the past. Medieval and modern history has been studied at Oxford for longer than at almost any other university: a Regius Professor of Modern History was first appointed in 1724, and undergraduate examinations began in 1850. Today the University is one of the world's most encompassing centres for the study of history. The faculty has about a hundred permanent teaching staff, nearly twelve hundred undergraduates, and almost five hundred graduate students attracted from many countries. Historians also abound in other departments. At their service is the Bodleian library and its ancillaries, which count among the greatest of research collections. They work and live in forty-five college communities, in buildings ranging from honey-coloured medieval quads, to the most controversial of post-modernist architecture, all set within the lively, thriving, and beautiful city of Oxford.

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Title	Description	People	Date
Nils Chr. Stenseth And Barbara Bramanti On Evolutionary And Ecological Ends Of Epidemics	A discussion on how evolutionary biology and biological anthropology help understand the end of epidemics, particularly plague.	Nils Chr. Stenseth, Barbara Bramanti, Erica Charters	17 May, 2022
Clark Larsen and Fabian Crespo on Biology, Archaeology, and Multi-disciplinary Ends	A discussion on why multi-disciplinary approaches that combine social and biological research are helpful in understanding how epidemics end.	Clark Larsen, Fabian Crespo, Erica Charters	17 May, 2022
Cristiana Bastos and the Human End of Epidemics	Professor Cristiana Bastos (Lisbon) and Professor Erica Charters discuss how anthropology and ethnology measure the end of epidemics, including HIV/AIDS, and the difference between illness and disease.	Cristiana Bastos, Erica Charters	17 May, 2022
Christl Donnelly and the Statistical End of Epidemics	Professor Christl Donnelly (Oxford and Imperial) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how statistical and mathematical epidemiology measure the end of epidemics, including BSE, Ebola, influenza, and Covid-19.	Christl Donnelly, Erica Charters	15 March, 2022
Carolyn Eastman on Yellow Fever in New York	Dr Carolyn Eastman (VCU) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how epidemics of yellow fever ended in 1790s New York, and the multiple ends of an epidemic for different parts of a society.	Carolyn Eastman, Erica Charters	15 March, 2022
Virginia Berridge and the Political End of Epidemics	Professor Virginia Berridge (LSHTM) and Dr Erica Charters discuss swine flu, HIV/AIDS, and the history of health policy as ways to define the political end of an epidemic.	Erica Charters, Virginia Berridge	8 October, 2021
Dora Vargha and Arthur Rose on Epidemics, Expectations, and Ends	Kristin Heitman talks with Dora Vargha (Exeter) and Arthur Rose (Exeter) about the nature and power of narrative in forming both our expectations about epidemics and the ways that we decide when and how they have ended.	Kristin Heitman, Dora Vargha, Arthur Rose	8 October, 2021
Paul Kelton and Smallpox among American Indigenous Populations	Professor Paul Kelton (Stony Brook) and Dr Erica Charters discuss the role of smallpox in American indigenous history and culture and how smallpox finally ended.	Erica Charters, Paul Kelton	8 October, 2021
Monica H. Green and Nükhet Varlık on Plague Pandemics	Dr Monica H. Green (Independent Historian), Dr Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers), and Dr Erica Charters discuss how global history and the historicist sciences have shaped our understanding of plague pandemics.	Erica Charters, Monica H Green, Nükhet Varlık	8 October, 2021
Alberto Giubilini and Pandemic Ethics	Dr. Alberto Giubilini (Oxford) and Dr. Kristin Heitman discuss ethical issues raised in efforts to balance individual freedoms and social measures to control the spread of disease.	Kristin Heitman, Alberto Giubilini	8 October, 2021
Margaret Pelling and the History of Cholera in England	Dr Margaret Pelling (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how historians understand disease and the myths about the end of cholera in nineteenth-century England.	Erica Charters, Margaret Pelling	8 October, 2021
Simukai Chigudu and the Political Life of Epidemics	Dr Simukai Chigudu (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss the Zimbabwe cholera epidemic and the politics of epidemics.	Erica Charters, Simukai Chigudu	8 October, 2021
Lorenz Von Seidlein and Epidemiology	Dr Lorenz Von Seidlen (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss epidemiological research into cholera and global programmes for cholera elimination.	Erica Charters, Lorenz von Seidlein	8 October, 2021
How Epidemics End: Introduction	Dr Erica Charters (Oxford) and Dr Kristin Heitman (Independent Historian) discuss their research into the conclusion of epidemics.	Erica Charters, Kristin Heitman	8 October, 2021
Wrap up and reflection part 2	Patricia Clavin (Professor of International History, Oxford) gives a lecture on history and public policy.	Patricia Clavin	29 September, 2019
Wrap up reflection part 1	Jeremy Adelman (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton) gives a lecture on history and public policy.	Jeremy Adelman	29 September, 2019
Strange Legacies of Divergence:  The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910	Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia) gives a lecture on ‘Strange Legacies of Divergence:  The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910’.	Mae Ngai	29 September, 2019
Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy	Peter Hill (Northumbria) gives a lecture on ‘Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy’.	Peter Hill	29 September, 2019
Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa	Andreas Eckert (Professor of African History, Humboldt-University Berlin) gives a lecture on ‘Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa’.	Andreas Eckert	29 September, 2019
China and the West: Many Great Divergences	Joel Mokyr (Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern) gives a lecture on ‘China and the West: Many Great Divergences’.	Joel Mokyr	29 September, 2019
Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe	Dagmar Schafer (Director, Max Planck Institute) and Giorgio Riello (Professor of Early Modern Global History, EUI) give a lecture on ‘Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe’.	Dagmar Schafer, Giorgio Riello	29 September, 2019
Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China	Patrick O’Brien (Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China’.	Patrick O’Brien	29 September, 2019
The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality	Eli Cook (Assistant Professor of American History, Haifa) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality’.	Eli Cook	28 September, 2019
The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America'	Kaoru Sugihara (Specially Appointed Professor at the Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, Kyoto) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America'’.	Kaoru Sugihara	28 September, 2019
Asia and the Great Divergence	Bishnu Gupta (Professor of Economics, Warwick) gives a lecture on ‘Asia and the Great Divergence’.	Bishnu Gupta	28 September, 2019

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