Workshop: "Cold War Studies Workshop: "The Cold War History journal approaches 25 years of age - Trends and prospects of Cold War Studies.
Speakers: various
5 December 2024
Department Event: "US-Cuban Relations: Before and After 5 November"
Speakers: Prof Ernesto Dominiguez Lopez and Prof Seida Barrera Rodriguez
28 November 2024
Department Event: "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two Hundred Year Quest to Dominate the Ukraine"
(Cold War Studies Project Event)
Speaker: Prof Eugene Finkel
19 November 2024
Department Event: "History and Historical Writing in Pahlavi Iran" - The Gholam Reza Nikpay Annual Lecture
(Iranian History Initiative Event)
Speaker: Prof Ali Ansari
14 November 2024
Department Event: "Reflections on a Life in International, Russian and Comparative History"
Speaker: Prof Dominic Lieven
10 October 2024
Conference: "Imperial Russia as Great Power and Multi-Ethnic Polity"
Title of lecture: “Reflections on a life in Russian and Imperial History"
Speaker: Professor Dominic Lieven
27 - 30 June 2024
Department Conference: "Socialist Ideas of Europe in the World - 1871 to 1968"
Can Socialism survive without an international(ist) vision? Can such a shared vision even exist? What role should an increasingly global left attribute to Europe?
The Conference will bring together graduate students, scholars, journalists, and political figures to reflect on the histories and competing traditions in international leftist politics and disentangle the complex relationship between history and current affairs.
Friday 14 June 2024
Department Event (Book Release): "The British Press, Public Opinion, and the End of Empire in Africa: The 'Wind of Change', 1957-60"
Speaker: Dr Rosalind Coffey
23 May, Alumni Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Department Conference: "Women in Diplomacy - From the Interwar to the Cold War"
Conference hosted by the Department of International History; sponsored by the Cold War Studies Project, The ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS Women in Diplomacy, The Centre for Women Peace and Security at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, Oxford Centre for Life Writing, University of Sussex Centre for American Studies, University of Westminster, The Global Biography Working Group, and the Women's History Network.
Friday, 8 March 2024
Department Event: Research Seminar (Cold War Studies Project): "To Run the World: the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the post-Cold War"
Speaker: Prof Sergey Radchenko
7 March 2024, MAR.2.05, Marshall Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Department Event: Department Annual Lecture - "Affirming the History of African and Caribbean People in Britain"
Speaker: Prof Hakim Adi
25 January 2024, CLM.2.02, Clement House, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Department Event (Book Release): "Doctor, Teacher, Terrorist: The Life and Legacy of Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri"
Speaker: Dr Sajjan Gohel
18 January 2024, MAR.1.08, Marshall Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳