Global History and Culture Centre
Steering committee Meeting
Thursday 21 May 2015
1:00-2:30 – H545, Humanities Building
Agenda:
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Welcome
Attendance and apologies
Finances
Annual Lecture for 2016: Nile Green
Honorary Professorship: Nile Green
Next year’s AGM – date and conference
Workshops and seminars 2014-15.(See attachment)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Future workshops and conferences
Research Projects
Global History MA teaching
Website
CUP and Palgrave Book series
AOB
Notes for Agenda:
3. Finances:
The University approved a budget for the GHCC for the next three years of £40,000 per year.
Expenditure has been as follows:
Global History and Culture Centre (09HIAA14)
2014/15
£
Funding
Departmental Funding for General Centre Activities
40,000
Conference/Workshop Income
8,845
Total Funding
48,845
Expenditure to Date
Casual Staff
356
Premises Costs
140
Travel and Accommodation
10,282
Catering and Management Centres
8,162
General Office Expenses
924
Bursaries and Scholarships
14,030
Conference Subsidies:
Indian Ocean Project
1,500
Franz Fanon Event
1,390
Sam Moyn Events
1,500
Total Expenditure to Date
Expenditure yet to be Incurred
38,284
Travel and Accommodation
5,500
Central Service Charges
3,888
Total Expenditure yet to be Incurred
9,388
Funds Remaining
1,173
Our budget has been entirely used during this year. We do not yet expect major outside funding
streams for next year. We will need to curtail our activities and conference support next year if we
are to stay within our budget.
A considerable proportion of our budget has been allocated for Bursaries and Scholarships. The Phd
Scholarship of this year will be followed by an MA bursary for next year in the amount of c. £15,000.
We do not yet know if this bursary will be awarded. Do we wish to continue with the scholarship
and bursary fund after 2016?
We now run a small grants scheme for conference subsidies. Active participants in Global History
events and seminars can apply for these. Do we wish to continue with this scheme?
£12,421 was allocated for this 14/15. There were 9 applications, and 8 were funded.
Much of the rest of our expenditure is taken up with additional support for conferences which have
some outside support. We have two major conference proposals for next year and one workshop.
These will need considerable GHCC support.
4. The Annual Lecture next year will be by Professor Nile Green (UCLA). It will take place on
Wednesday, 2nd March. This is out of sync with our usual AGM, but his flight is financed out of last
year’s budget after a flight change.
5. James Baldwin has prepared papers to propose Nile Green as an Honorary Professor of the
Centre. We hope he will be involved in some of our Summer Term activities in future.
6. Next Year’s AGM – we propose moving the date of our AGM to 5th May, 2016. This will coincide
with a conference organized by Giorgio Riello.
8. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Dr. Michael Bycroft was appointed to a Leverhulme Early Career
fellowship for 3 years. Michael researches the global history of gems in eighteenth-century France.
He ran a conference 14-15 May ‘Gems in Transit’.
9. Future Conferences and Workshops:
1. The Space Between: Micro History and Global History
Organized by Maxine Berg and John-Paul Ghobrial – Venice -26-28 February, 2016 – joint
funding sought with Oxford.
2. Micro/Macro History – University of California Berkeley – 2 days between 4-10 April,
2016. [funded by Warwick/California scheme]
3. Conference: ‘Economic Change in Global History organized by Giorgio Riello and
Tirthankar Roy (LSE)
4. Workshop to be organized by Robert Fletcher.
Seminar speakers for next year:
Paul Warde (Cambridge) (with Early Modern Group) – 27th January
Sarah Easterby-Smith (St. Andrews) (with Eighteenth-Century Centre) – 11th Feb.
David Todd (Kings London) (with European History Centre) – 24th Feb.
Marilyn Booth (Oxford) (9 March) and Ruth Harris (Oxford) (20 Jan.) will each give History seminars.
Emma Teng – summer term.
10. Research Projects:
Maxine Berg’s ERC project, ‘Europe’s Asian Centuries’ finished in September, 2015, and the Final
Report was submitted in October, 2015.
Giorgio Riello’s Leverhulme Luxury network finished in March, 2015. Two conferences were held in
this year, one at the Getty in Florence in September, 2014, and one at the Shard in London in
collaboration with WBS.
There have been two meetings with the British Library in a bid to do an ESRC application and a
Leverhulme application on Indian Ocean Trade. There has been some progress with application
writing, but the BL does not yet have collaborative status with the ESRC. We hope this hurdle will be
overcome soon.
Claudia Stein and Charles Walton have applied to for a Leverhulme Research Interchange on Global
Human Rights.
11. Global History MA teaching
The Global History MA ran this year with a small number of students. It remains on the books next
year, but subsequently will be a stream within a general History MA.
13. CUP and Palgrave book series:
Giorgio Riello is in negotiation with CUP over a book series
Maxine Berg has a book series with Palgrave – ‘Europe’s Asian Centuries’. Two volumes are in Press.
Other Publications:
Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello have published one volume based on recent conferences from the
Global Commodities network; two more are in press.
Other book news: Howard Chiang, ed., Psychiatry and Chinese History (2014)
Giorgio Riello’s Cotton: the Fabric that Made the Modern World (2013) won the World History
Association Bentley Book prize.