Via Zoom


2021-01-27 17:00: Strategy and Tactics in the Environmental Revolution (Paul Warde (Pembroke College, Cambridge))

2021-02-02 17:00: Rocky Mountain High: Economic Privilege in Campaigns Against Multinational Mining in the 1970s (Megan Black (MIT) )

2021-02-17 17:00: The Vagrancy of Economic Invisibility (Francesca Trivellato (IAS, Princeton))

2021-03-02 17:00: Ghost in a Shell. Scenarios and the world-making of Royal Dutch Shell (Jenny Andersson (Sciences Po Paris / Uppsala))

2021-05-04 13:00: Nicholas Norton Nicols and his maps of Mindanao (Peter Geldart, Philippine Map Collectors Society)

2021-06-16 17:00: Discretionary Power in the Hands of an Authoritarian State: Denaturalizations under the Vichy Regime, 1940-1944 (Claire Zalc (IHMC/CNRS/EHESS))

2021-07-14 17:00: The Significance of Small Things: Towards a History of Dam Building in the Twentieth Century (Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University))

2021-09-15 17:00: The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Century (France, United States) (Nicolas Barreyre (EHESS) and Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po) )

2021-10-07 17:00: Border-Making: State-Building and Geopolitics (Thomas Simpson (Cambridge) and Sören Urbansky (German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.))

2021-10-13 17:00: Histories of Capitalism: the View from Offshore (Vanessa Ogle (UC Berkeley) )

2021-10-27 17:30: Cultural Code of Single Motherhood in Russia and Britain:  Design of the Project and Preliminary Results  (Dmitrii Sergeev)

2021-11-10 15:00: Online seminar – Price transparency, media and informative advertising (Professor Itai Ater, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University)

2021-11-16 13:00: At the limits of China: frontiers, borders, and political geography in early modern Sino-Western cartographic exchanges (Florin-Stefan Morar, City University of Hong Kong)

2021-11-17 17:00: The Judicial Counterrevolution to Reconstruction (Nikolas Bowie (Harvard))

2021-11-24 15:00: Online seminar – The value of information in competitive markets: The impact of big data on small and medium enterprises (Ricard Gil, Associate Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Business Economics, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University)

2022-01-20 16:00: Creating Barriers: Migration, Citizenship, and the Politics of Inclusion & Exclusion (Noora Lori (Boston University) &  Robtel Neajai Pailey (London School of Economics))

2022-02-03 17:00:  Crossing Borders: Migration, Law, and Global Politics (Mae Ngai (Columbia University) and Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics))

2022-04-07 17:00: The Lived Experience of Borderlands: Border Regimes, Social Communities, and the Environment  (Astrid Eckert (Emory University) and Rihan Yeh (University of California San Diego))

2022-05-03 17:30: The idea of the Indigenous map: examples  from the RGS-IBG collections (Joy Slappnig, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2022-11-22 17:30: The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett (Stephen Leach, University of Keele)

2023-01-31 13:15: Next-Generation Methods In Preclinical Obesity Research (Professor Alex Banks,  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, US)

2023-02-16 15:00: Microscopic origin of the entropy of black holes in general relativity (Albion Lawrence, Brandeis U)

2023-02-21 17:30: Remapping and place naming in 'Beautiful Dachau' (Alan Marcus, University of Aberdeen)

2023-02-28 16:00: The sum-of-squares for fermionic systems, and the SYK model (Matthew Hastings (Microsoft Research))

2023-03-21 13:15: Sex Inclusive Research: addressing misconceptions and barriers to including both sexes (Dr Natasha Karp, Biostatistics, Quantitative Biology, Discovery Science, R&D, AstraZeneca, UK)

2023-03-24 18:00: Geographies of Russia: Lecture by Alexander Chernokulsky “Climate Change in Russia” (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-05-02 17:30: Maps that made history: the map collections of Leiden University Library (Martijn Storms, Leiden University Libraries)

2023-11-21 17:30: Lines endowed with lawful force’: the maps and drawings of the Wide Streets Commissioners, Dublin, 1758–1849. (John Montague, American University of Sharjah)

2024-02-20 18:30: Controlling copying before copyright: a tale of three Britannias (Isabella Alexander, UTS Sydney)

2024-05-07 17:30: The cartographic commissions of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690–1749) (Jana C Schuster, Historic England & New York University)

2024-11-19 17:30: Maps, meridians and missions: Christopher Maire, SJ (1697–1767), an English cartographer in continental Europe (Maurice Whitehead, Venerable English College, Rome)

2025-02-25 17:30: ‘A peculiar survey … for our peculiar purpose’: founding the Ordnance Survey of Ireland (Finnian O'Cionnaith, Dublin)

2025-05-06 17:30: Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography (Onur Engin, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-18 17:30: Cinematic Cartography (Chris Lukinbeal, University of Arizona)

2026-02-24 17:30: Churchill's secret chart-makers (Adrian Webb)

2026-05-05 17:30: The rise of local cartography in Europe, 12th-14th century (Juliette Dumasy, Université d’Orléans)