Current Programme
The Centre hosts a seminar series which takes place throughout the academic year and is open to staff, students and the general public.
Informal Online Events (Summer 2020)
We are running informal, fortnightly work-in-progress seminars and reading discussion groups online throughout the summer. To sign up to our mailing list, please contact Stephen McDowall (stephen.mcdowall@ed.ac.uk).
Semester 1 Events, 2020-21
All ECGH events in semester 1 will take place online at 4pm on Wednesdays, unless otherwise stated. Please contact us (ecgh@ed.ac.uk) to be added to our mailing list or for the link to a single event.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Sept |
Kalathmika Natarajan (Edinburgh) |
'Histories of the "International": Caste, Migration and Indian Diplomacy' |
| 7 Oct | Manual Barcia (Leeds) | ‘The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade’ |
| 21 Oct | Ceyda Karamursel (SOAS) | ‘The Sack and the Bowstring: A Global History of Ottoman Slavery and Freedom’ |
| 4 Nov | Anne Gerritsen (Warwick), in conversation with Stephen McDowall (ECGH) | 'The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World’ |
| 18 Nov | Luke Gartlan (St Andrews) | ‘Inventing Provinciality: St Andrews and the Global Mobilities of Victorian Photography’ |
| 2 Dec | Hatice Yıldız (Edinburgh) | ‘Tâ’ife-i Nisâ’ in Bursa Filatures: Gender and Labour Unrest in an Ottoman Industrial Town, 1908-1910’ |
Please contact the convenors if you have any questions. To be added to our mailing list or to receive the link to a single event please contact us at ecgh@ed.ac.uk.
Dr Stephen McDowall
Director, Edinburgh Centre for Global History; Senior Lecturer
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: stephen.mcdowall@ed.ac.uk
Professor Diana Paton
Programme Director
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Work: +44 (0) 131 650 4578
- Email: Diana.Paton@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Professor Paton's staff profile
Find out what else is on
The School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers an exciting programme of seminars across many subjects areas. Visit the research seminars website to find out what else is happening.