Current Programme

Professor Samuel Fury Childs Daly (University of Chicago) 

Edinburgh Centre for Global History Research Seminar in a joint session with the Centre of African Studies 

'Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire' 

Drinks reception to follow at 5:30pm. 

Note: Postgraduate researchers are invited to a coffee hour with the speaker beforehand, at 2pm in the Chrystal Macmillan Building Café (ground floor).   

Chrystal Macmillan Building, Violet Laidlaw Room (6th floor)  

Edinburgh Centre for Global History Research Seminar: 'Weaponizing ballet and “performing justice” in Mao China '

Respondent: Dr Lucy Weir (ECA)

Postgraduate researchers are invited to a coffee hour with the speaker beforehand, at 2pm in the Chrystal Macmillan Building Café (ground floor)

Co-badged with the Performance Studies Network

The Global History of Ideas Hub:' Islam and the spice trade: Towards a new history of global commerce'

Co-sponsored with Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and the Alwaleed Centre

Edinburgh Centre for Global History Research Seminar: Book talk on "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950–1180"

Respondent: Dr Nik Matheou (HCA)

'“His master’s grace”: Extrajudicial violence and mercy in Atlantic slave societies'

RSVP to david.silkenat@ed.ac.uk for the pre-circulated paper.

Featuring global historians from the region.

ECGH Welcome Back Lightning Talks

Reception to follow in the Macmillan Room, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, 1st floor.

Dr Peggy Brunache (University of Glasgow), Dr Mike Carr (University of Edinburgh), Dr John Latham-Sprinkle (Ghent University), Professor Diana Paton (University of Edinburgh), and Professor Daniel Smail (Harvard University)

Chair: Dr Sonia Tycko (University of Edinburgh)

Roundtable, “Writing the History of Slavery from the Medieval Mediterranean to the Atlantic World”

Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery: Slavery and the pursuit of freedom in later medieval Mediterranean Europe

Chaired by Dr Zubin Mistry (HCA)

Reception to follow.

Co-badged by the Medieval History Seminar.

Please register here: https://slaverylecture.eventbrite.co.uk.

5pm, Appleton Tower Lecture Theatre 1

Economic and Social History Hub: Work-in-progress lunchtime seminar: Deciphering Italy's Interwar Labor Puzzle: Fascist Reforms and Unemployment Trends

1-2pm, Teaching Room 01 (G.204), Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Doorway 3

Please feel free to bring your own lunch

Dr Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)

Respondent: Professor Diana Paton (University of Edinburgh)

‘Their Superior’: Father General Claudio Acquaviva, Black People, and the Challenges of Evangelization in the Provincia Mexicana

Postgraduate researchers are invited to a coffee hour with the speaker beforehand, at 2pm in the Chrystal Macmillan Building Cafe.

Co-sponsored by Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies.

1-2pm, Room G.13, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Doorway 4

Enlightened and Lethal Manhood in an Interconnected Empire: Lachlan Macquarie (1761/2-1824)

Hosted by the Scottish History Seminar, with co-sponsorship from ECGH.