The oldest student-led history forum at the University of Oxford
expanding perspectives in transnational and global history
Annual Conference Call for Abstracts
The Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar (TGHS) invites abstracts from graduate students and early-career researchers for its Annual Conference in Trinity 2026. This year we focus on Global Histories of knowledge — early-modern and modern — as constituted through global encounters and exchanges. The conference is scheduled to be held online and in person at the University of Oxford on 25 and 26 June 2026. Abstracts must be between 250-300 words and should be submitted by 19th April 2026.
upcoming events
history of the seminar
Since 2009, the seminar has sought to expand and challenge perspectives in transnational and global history. In the past, we have explored topics such as gender in transnational contexts, race in pedagogy and higher education, politics of diaspora, and conflicts and commemoration in colonial settings.
Currently, our aim is to provide a platform for graduate students and academics who are early career, precarious or from the Global South. Past events and conveners can be found on our archive page.
The seminar is endowed by the Sudbury Oxford Transnational History Foundation and financially supported by the Beit Fund of the University of Oxford’s Humanities Division.
seminar policies
TGHS has an evolving, multidimensional approach to challenging power disparities and inequalities which pervade many academic environments. We maintain a collaborative environment, both in-person and on-line, that respects differences and discourse while simultaneously protecting participants and organisers from harassment, bullying and discrimination. As a student-led organisation, we believe accountability and equitable practices that maintain everybody’s dignity, safety and wellbeing are essential to creating a hospitable and healthy community.