Events
The School supports a wide and varied programme of events, from lectures and seminars to film screening and workshops. They are all - unless otherwise stated - free and open to everyone who wishes to attend.
You can find details of events which have already taken place in our archive.
Forthcoming events
Research seminars
See our full calendar of events taking place across the School or view individual seminar schedules by topic.
Events calendar
Our events calendar offers a day-by-day overview of what is happening in the School.
Joe's Odyssey
Joe Goodkin's 'Odyssey' is a 35-minute original musical composition for solo acoustic guitar and voice.
Munro Lecture - 'Climate change, groundwater depletion and the decline of Great Zimbabwe'
This year's Munro Lecture will be delivered by Professor Innocent Pikirayi, Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies at the University of Pretoria.
Cfp: 2024 Economic and Social History Graduate Conference
We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the Second Annual Graduate Conference in Economic and Social History is open for submission.
'Peeping under the palimpsest: Reclaiming the urban topography of Byzantine Constantinople'
This joint Austrian Association for Byzantine Studies-Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (OEBG-SPBS) Lecture considers the sub-surface archaeology of Constantinople with Professor Jim Crow, Emeritus Professor of Roman and Byzantine Archaeology. Hybrid.
'Of walls and aqueducts': Celebrating Professor Jim Crow
A hybrid half-day workshop celebrating Professor Jim Crow, FSA organised by the Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (CLAIBS) in collaboration with
Archaeology and Classics at the University of Edinburgh.
‘Fife’s forgotten chronicler. Andrew of Wyntoun and his Original Chronicle’
Who was Andrew of Wyntoun, and why does he matter? A panel of historians discuss the legacy of the much neglected Fife-based chronicler.
Fennell Lecture: Professor Sherene Seikaly - 'The matter of time: Race, catastrophe, and Palestine'
Following the lessons of a ghostly ancestor, named Naim Cotran, this talk begins in Sudan in 1916 and ends in Lebanon in 1951.
The Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 2024
This hybrid conference - 'Inhabiting temperate Europe in the 4th–1st millennia BC' - honours the achievements of Professor Ian Ralston, Emeritus Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.
2024 Economic and Social History Graduate Conference
The Second Annual Graduate Conference in Economic and Social History will take place on 29 June, in Edinburgh.
Lecture recordings
Some of our guest and inaugural lectures are recorded and are available to watch and listen to online.