Our Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies is hosting a conference 'Fighting for Britain? Negotiating identities in Britain during the Second World War' on the 28th & 29th June 2012.
The School is host to an international conference, 'Locating Popular Culture in the Ancient World' in July (4-6th) 2012.
This years Crawford lecture will be delivered by Dr Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University) on the 8th of May.
The School is hosting a conference which will consider the causes and consequences of general, and internal, wars in the region during the colonial period and how they highlight the changing nature of its economic and strategic importance in the world order. d many others.
Join us for an afternoon of papers about three Edinburgh leading lights, Professors Lodge, Calder and Childe on the 27th of April, 2012.
A day conference held on the 28th of January 2012 in Jenny's honour was organised by her Edinburgh colleagues. It brought together a number of her friends and fellow-scholars to debate and advance some of the themes that Jenny has brought to the fore in her own work.
For the first time, the University will be holding an Innovative Learning Week in semester 2 (2011-12), where normal teaching will be suspended and replaced by a series of learning events. Find out more about the week and the plans that the School has for the week.
Yvonne McEwen, leads public lectures at the New York Public Libary in April 2012.
In this debate, students from two History courses will defend their chosen area of study, arguing the case for funding research into it.
A number of research seminars occur during semester here. Find out more!
This article was published on May 8, 2012