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Podcasts of events hosted by the departement and/or featuring our faculty

In this section, you can find all ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ videos and audio recordings of our events since 2009.

2024

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

2023

Department Conference: "1983 Remembered: The Most Dangerous Year in the Cold War?" 

Conference hosted by the Department of International History; sponsored by the Cold War Studies Project

Listen to the recordings below:

Tuesday, 12 December ("Reflections on 1983" - David Holloway) 

Wednesday, 13 December:  

Wednesday, 13 December ("George F. Kennan and the End of the Cold War" - Frank Costigliola) 

Thursday, 14 December: 

Thursday, 14 December:  ("Nuclear Holocaust and Historical Memory" - Carol Gluck)


 

Department Event: "German Zeitgeschichte from the Margins: The Post-War Experience of Nazi Victims" - The Annual Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum

28 October 2023, MAR.2.08, Marshall Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department Event: "Iran's Struggle for Sovereignty, 1828-1928" - Gholam-Reza Nikpay Annual Lecture

Speaker: Prof Houchang Chehabi

26 October 2023, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Lecture Theatre (CBG), ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2022

Departmental Event: Empire, Russia, Autocracy: A Historian's View of the Ukrainian Crisis

Speaker: Professor Dominic Lieven (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

10 March 2022, CLM 3.02, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Book Launch

Speaker: Professor Nigel Ashton (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

3 March 2022, Thai Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2021

PhD Open Event: Workshopping Your PhD Application

Speaker: Dr Tanya Harmer (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

10 December 2021, hybrid event


Book Launch: The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

Speakers: Professor Marc David Baer (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History) and Dr Dina Gusejnova (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)
Chair: Professor Piers Ludlow (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

28 October 2021, Zoom


Student Event: The Emperor in World History

Speaker: Professor Dominic Lieven (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

27 September 2021, Wolfson Theatre


Book Talk:  Hendrik de Man and Social Democracy: The Idea of Planning in Western Europe, 1914-1940

Speakers: (EUI) (Oxford) and Dr Dina Gusejnova (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)
Chair: Professor Piers Ludlow (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

6 May 2021, Zoom


History, Culture and Diplomacy Series: Waiting with Godot?: Pandemic Endings in Perspective

Speakers: (Emory University School of Law), , (University of Oxford), (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Dr Michael Reynolds (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History).
Chair: Dr Victoria Phillips (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

22 April 2021, Zoom


Department of International History Annual Lecture: Paper Chains or Lilliputian Cords? Towards an Intellectual History of Treaties

Speaker: (Harvard)
Chair: Professor Piers Ludlow (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

18 March 2021, Zoom


ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Festival: Learning from History for a Post-COVID World

Speakers: Dr Dina Gusejnova (pictured), Dr Raghav Kishore, Professor David Stevenson, Dr Tim Hochstrasser and Dr Joanna Lewis (all ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History), Dr Farah Bede (IRIS Domestic Violence and Abuse Programme in Tower Hamlets)
Chair: Professor Piers Ludlow (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

5 March 2021, Zoom


Book Talk: Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo

Speaker: (Smithsonian)
Chair: Dr Thomas Ellis (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

8 February 2021, Zoom


Book Discussion: Nature’s Evil. A Cultural History of Natural Resources

Speakers: (EUI), (Warwick),  (Leipziger Universitatsverlang) and (EUI/Warwick)
Chair: Dr Dina Gusejnova (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

4 February 2021, Zoom


Book Discussion:

Speakers: (Oxford), (Cambridge) and (Sheffield)
Chair: Dr David Motadel (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

26 January 2021, Zoom

Audio

2020

Book Talk:

Speakers: (University of East Anglia, pictured) and (New York University)
Commentator: (University of Cambridge)
Chair: Dr Roham Alvandi (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

30 November 2020, Zoom

Audio


Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Inagural Lecture:

Speaker: 2020/21 Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor Martina Kessel (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

26 November 2020, Zoom


History, Culture and Diplomacy Series:

Panellists: (University of Alabama, pictured), , (University of Texas-Arlington), (City University of New York)
Moderator: Dr Victoria Phillips (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)
Chair:
Professor Piers Ludlow (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

19 November 2020, Zoom

Audio


Book Talk: The Beginning of the End of the Cold War

Speaker: (Duke University)
Chair: Professor Michael Cox (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS)

17 November 2020, Zoom


Book Talk: Project Europe: Success or Failure?

Speaker: (Ludwig Maximilian University)
Panellists: (Sheffield University), (NYU)
Chair: Professor Piers Ludlow (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

27 October 2020, Zoom


Book Talk:

Speaker: (Columbia)
Chair: Professor Steven Casey (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

20 October 2020, Zoom

Audio


Book Talk: How the Global Cold War Remade American Politics

Speaker: (Yale)
Chair: Dr Thomas Ellis (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

15 October 2020, Zoom



Book Talk
: The Letelier Assassination: Human Rights against Fascism in the Americas

Speaker: Professor (Temple University)
Chair: Dr Tanya Harmer (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

4 March 2020, Centre Building, Room 1.03, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Festival: Lessons from the Past: how to learn and not learn from history

Speakers: (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS), Professor Matthew Jones (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History), Professor Anita Prazmowska (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History, pictured), Professor David Stevenson (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)
Chair: Dr Dina Gusejnova (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

2 March 2020, Shaw Library, Old Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Annual International History Lecture: ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and the Genesis of Global Governance

Speaker: (Oxford)
Chair: Professor Matthew Jones (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

11 February 2020, Old Theatre, Old Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Film screening and panel discussion:

Speakers: Sara De Witt, Ana María Pelusa, Dr Hernando Fernández-Canque (Glasgow Caledonian University), Dr Sergio Vasquez (Sheffield)
Chair: Dr Tanya Harmer (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

27 January 2020, Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Audio

2019

Book talk: The Europe Illusion? Britain, France, Germany and the Long History of European Integration

Speaker: (University of Oxford) and Dr Tim Hochstrasser (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)
Chair: Professor David Stevenson (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

30 October 2019, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Annual Gulf History Lecture:

Speaker: (City University of New York)
Chair: Dr Roham Alvandi (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

24 October 2019, Old Theatre, Old Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department of International History and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS:

Speaker: (George Washington University)
Chair: Dr Roham Alvandi (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History)

23 October 2019, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Audio


Department of International History, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS and Foreign & Commonwealth office: Chronicle of a Brexit Foretold? Britain and Europe in the Thatcher Era, 1975-85

Speaker: Sir Stephen Wall, Professor Piers Ludlow (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International History) and (University of Cambridge)
Chair: Professor Tony Travers (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Government)

26 March 2019, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Festival: New World (Dis)Orders, International History Lecture:

Speakers: , (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS) and (Open University)
Chair:

25 February 2019, Shaw Library, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department of International History and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS:

Speaker: (University of London)
Chair: Dr Joanna Lewis

17 January 2019, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2018

Department of International History and German Historical Institute London:

Speaker: Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor Johanna Gehmacher

Chair:

27 November 2018, CLM.4.02, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Paulsen Programme Launch:

Speakers:  (Cambridge University), (National Research University-Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg) and

Chair:

9 October 2018, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Annual Gulf History Lecture:

Speaker: (Walter H Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania)

Chair:

5 March 2018, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Festival: Beveridge 2.0, Department of International History Lecture:

Speakers: Professor Matthew Jones, Professor David Stevenson and Dr David Motadel

Chair: Dr Megan Black

21 February 2018, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2017

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS and Department of International History:

Speaker:

Chair: Professor Vladislav Zubok

5 October 2017, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS and Department of International History:

Speakers: Dr Svetozar Rajak, Professor Arne Westad, Dr Vesslin Dimitrov, Professor Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Dr Eirini Karamouzi and Dr Konstantina E. Botsiou

28 April 2017, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department of International History and The Radical Americas Network:

Speaker:

Chair: Dr William Booth

6 March 2017, Vera Anstey Room, Old Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department of International History and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Literary Festival:

SpeakersDr Tanya Harmer, Dr Nataliya Kibita, Dr David Motadel

Chair: Professor David Stevenson

22 February 2017, Wolfson Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Annual Gulf History Lecture:

Speaker:

Chair: Dr David Motadel

30 January 2017, Old Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2016

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS and Department of International History:

Speakers: Among others, Professor Matthew Jones, Professor Michael Cox, Sue Donnelly, Richard Moore (KCL)

5 December 2016, IDEAS, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS:

Speaker: Dr Piers Ludlow

Chair: Professor Janet Hartley

8 November 2016, Wolfson Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department of International History Public Lecture:

Speaker: Professor Alan Sked

Chair: Professor Janet Hartley

8 June 2016, Sheik Zayed Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of International History Literary Festival Discussion:

Speakers: Dr Tim Hochstrasser, Dr Padraic Scanlan, Dr Kirsten Schulze

Chair: Professor David Stevenson

24 February 2016, Wolfson Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department of International History Public Lecture:

Speaker:

Chair: Professor Janet Hartley

1 February 2016, Old Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2015

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Annual Gulf History:

Speaker:

Chair: Dr Roham Alvandi

26 November 2015,Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department of International History Annual Lecture:

Speaker: Professor Dominic Lieven

Chair: Professor Janet Hartley

29 October 2015,Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Professor Arne Westad’s Farewell Public Lecture:

Speaker: Professor Arne Westad

Chair:

5 May 2015, Old Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Works - International History Public Lecture:

Speaker: Dr Kristina Spohr

Respondents: , , Professor Arne Westad

Chair: Professor Stuart Corbridge 

5 March 2015, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Literary Festival 2015:

Speaker: Dr Tim Hochstrasser, Dr Kirsten Schulze, Professor Alan Sked, Dr Paul Stock

Chair: Dr Paul Keenan

25 February 2015, Wolfson Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2014

Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship Lecture:

Speaker: Professor Kiran Klaus Patel

4 December 2014, CLM 5.02, Clement House, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: , , Professor Vladislav Zubok

Chair:

27 October 2014, New Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Annual Gulf History Lecture:

Speaker:

23 October 2014, Wolfson Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Book Launch:

Speaker: Dr Roham Alvandi

Chair:

16 October 2014, Wolfson Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: , , Professor David Stevenson, , , , , , ,

3 October 2014, Shaw Library, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: , , Dr Roham Alvandi

Chair

12 May 2014, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department of International History in association with The Churchill Centre (UK) Public Debate:

Speakers: , and

Chair: Dr Antony Best

29 April 2014, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: Professor Jennifer Jenkins

Chair: Dr Roham Alvandi

30 April 2014,NAB 1.04, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: , ,

Chair: Professor David Stevenson

26 February 2014,Sheikh Zayed Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2013

Department of International History Public Lecture:

SpeakerProfessor Christopher Clark

Chair: Professor David Stevenson

22 January 2013, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speaker: Professor Dominic Lieven

5 February 2013, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: , Dr Debin Ma, Professor Arne Westad

Chair: Professor Stephan Feuchtwang

13 February 2013, TW1 G.01, Tower 1, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: , Dr Tim Hochstrasser, Dr Paul Keenan

Chair: Dr Paul Stock

1 March 2013, Wolfson Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speaker: Professor Paul Preston

Respondents: , ,

Chair

14 March 2013,Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: , , , Professor Alan Sked

Chair

12 June 2013,Old Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: , , , , Professor Alan Sked 

Chair

1 October 2013, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2011

Has Europe Ever Had a Common Identity?

Speakers: Dr Heather Jones, Dr Paul Keenan, Dr Joan-Pau Rubiés, Dr Paul Stock

Chair: Dr Piers Ludlow

2 March 2011, NAB.1.07, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: , Professor Arne Westad

Chair

2 March 2011,Old Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department of International History Annual Lecture:

Speaker

ChairProfessor Dominic Lieven

17 March 2011, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2010

Department of International History Annual Lecture:

Speaker: Dr John Darwin

ChairProfessor Dominic Lieven

25 February 2010, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speakers: , Professor Arne Westad

Chair

13 October 2010,Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Speaker: Professor Anita J Prazmowska

28 October 2010, Wolfson Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Asia Forum 2010: China:

SpeakersProfessor Arne Westad, Professor Wang Jisi, 

26 March 2010, China World Hotel, Beijing


Was the First World War a War that Britain Needed to Fight?

Speakers: , Dr Heather Jones, Professor David Stevenson and Professor Dominic Lieven

24 November 2010, New Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

2009

Department of International History Public Lecture:

Speaker:  Laurence Rees

Chair: Professor Alan Sked

20 January 2009, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Department of International History Public Lecture:

Speaker

ChairProfessor David Stevenson

4 March 2009, Hong Kong Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


IDEAS:

Speaker: Professor Dominic Lieven

8 October 2009, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳