Centre for Imperial and Global History

Research Seminars

~ Spring 2026 ~

All seminars take place on Wednesdays 3.30pm-5.00pm in person in Room B310, Amory, unless otherwise noted, with the option to join remotely. Reminders, links, and abstracts will be sent a week in advance of each seminar to the CIGH mailing list. To be added, please email Chris and Beccy at c.w.sandal-wilson@exeter.ac.uk and r.williams2@exeter.ac.uk.

WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY [Week 3]              Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy

Join us to celebrate the launch of Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy by our very own Kalathmika Natarajan. Drawing on multi-sited archival research, Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy reimagines the history of diplomacy in independent India by putting labour migration at the heart of the story. Co-hosted with the South Asia Centre.

WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY [Week 7]           Explaining Famine in the British Empire

Join us to celebrate the launch of Explaining Famine in the British Empire, by our very own John Lidwell-Durnin. Focusing on the famines and food shortages that struck India and Britain in the late eighteenth century, Explaining Famine tracks the rise of scientific efforts to understand and solve food insecurity in the British empire.

            WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH [Week 10]                Fascism in India

Join us to hear Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University, London) speak about her new book, Fascism in India, which offers an innovative new intellectual history of the emergence of a distinctive brand of fascist thought in India under colonial rule. Co-hosted with the South Asia Centre.

WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH [Week 11]                 Postgraduate Research Symposium

As always, we’ll see out the term on a high note: join us as post-graduate researchers working on Imperial and Global History at Exeter share their work in progress.