Events - 2019

The second in a series of three conferences aims to explore how public performances of classicising learning (however defined in each culture) influenced and served imperial or state power in premodern political systems across Eurasia and North Africa.

A Thanksgiving lecture in celebration of Peter Fosl's newly published book with Edinburgh University Press, 'Hume's Scepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic'.

Professor Simon Heffer will give a lecture as part of the programme for the Political History Research Group on 'Asquith, Lloyd George and the coup of 1916’.

PhD candidate within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Alastair Learmont, leads a walking tour of the New Town of Edinburgh. Part of Previously - Scotland's History Festival.

PhD candidate within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Alastair Learmont, examines the complex motivations of two Scottish slave owners. Part of Previously - Scotland's History Festival.

Professor Frank Cogliano and Dr David Silkenat discuss the history of US-French relations. Part of Previously - Scotland's History Festival.

The 3rd Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies will take place 22-23 November, 2019.

The next Munro Lecture will be delivered by Dr Adam Reed on 21 November, 2019. This event is free and open to all.

The next Leventis Conference - 'Re-reading the Republic' - will take place at the University of Edinburgh, 21-24 November, 2019.

‘Getting Published’ is a WriteFest event for postgraduate students in history, classics, and archaeology-related subjects to help you understand the process of getting your work into print.

'Byzantium and Scotland' - The Inaugural Lecture for the A. G. Leventis Chair in Byzantine Studies will be given by Professor Niels Gaul.

Buy a book, change a life. The School of History, Classics and Archaeology will be hosting a book sale for Book Week Scotland on 20 November.

Based on the writings of Alice Thornton and a project by Dr Cordelia Thornton, this one woman show reflects on life in the seventeenth century. Part of the Being Human Festival.

Join Dr Joanne Rowland and staff from the National Museum of Scotland as they discuss Scottish contributions to archaeology. Part of Being Human Festival.

The Women's History Scotland Conference takes place on 16 November, 2019.

The 2019 Sue Innes Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Eleanor Gordon (University of Glasgow) on Friday 15 November.

Based on the writings of Alice Thornton and a project by Dr Cordelia Thornton, this one woman show reflects on life in the seventeenth century. Part of the Being Human Festival.

Part of Mental Health & Wellbeing Week.

The next postgraduate Open Day will take place on Wednesday 13 November, 2019.

Part of Mental Health & Wellbeing Week.

The 2019 UISPP Metal Ages in Europe Conference will take place 9-10 November, 2019.

The 2019 annual (free) fieldwork fair will take place on Friday 8 November in Teviot Debating Hall.

The next Munro Lecture will be delivered by Professor Christopher Knüsel on 7 November, 2019. This event is free and open to all.

Dr Ken Fordyce and Dr Samaneh Zandian of Moray House School of Education will be facilitating a workshop for HCA PGT students and academic teaching staff.

If you are an MSc student considering PhD study at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology come along to a briefing session.

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to welcome Jackie Kay, Scots Makar, poet and novelist as part of Black History Month.

The remarkable contribution to Australian political life made by Andrew Fisher, Australia’s fifth Prime Minister, has only just begun to receive a measure of the recognition it deserves. Join Dr David Headon to discover more about this extraordinary man.

Join Dr Tyson Reeder (University of Virginia) as he talks about his new book, 'Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution'.

“A Fair Field and No Favour” – the Edinburgh Seven and the campaign to secure women the right to a Medical Degree 1869-73. A talk with Jo Spiller, MSc student at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

The 2019 Charles Gordon Mackay Lecture will be given by Professor Gianfranco Agosti.

Professor Mary Margaret McCabe's inaugural lecture is entitled, 'Taking time to talk: Plato's Euthydemus on the metaphysics of conversation'.

Join Dr Talat Ahmed, Lecturer in South Asian History, as she talks about her new book. Part of South Asia Week.

Dr Talat Ahmed, Lecturer in South Asian History, joins other participants from this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival sharing stories from events which had a South Asia focus. Part of South Asia Week.

The Centre for Legal History is delighted to host the Alan Watson Seminar in Legal History, which this year will be given by Mathias Schmoeckel, Institute of German and Rhenish Legal History.

Research meeting with Francisco Lopez-Santos Kornberger as part of the 'Classicising Learning in Medieval Imperial Systems: Cross-cultural Approaches to Byzantine Paideia and Tang/Song Xue' project.

The Wicked Findings of the Witchfinder General: Using linked open data to put accused witches on the map.

Join Dr Talat Ahmed with Meena Kandasamy and Nitasha Kaul as they discuss recent political developments in South Asia at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Join Dr Talat Ahmed, Lecturer in South Asian History, as she discusses Ghandi's non-violent approach to civil disobedience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Enjoy a panel discussion on the work of Charles Mackie, Chair of Universal History and Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Edinburgh from 1719, with current lecturers from the University.

Dr Miranda Anderson, Honourary Fellow, asks a very important question - 'Where is your mind?'

Dr Miranda Anderson, Honourary Fellow, thinks we're all out of our heads. Find out why at the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas

Proposals for papers are sought for the Women's History Scotland Conference to be held in November, 2019.

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is delighted to host the 15th International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Congress at the University of Edinburgh in July 2019.

Join us on 3 July for this live and interactive online session for all prospective postgraduate students interested in joining us in September, whether you are yet to apply, have made an application or hold an offer.

Applications are sought from current postgraduate students (MA or PhD) studying in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to participate in a week-long collaborative archives workshop in Nairobi in October 2019. 

The 2019 Denys Hay Lecture will be delivered by Professor John Haldon (Princeton) on 19 June, 2019.

The Fifth Annual Conference of the Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society at the University of Edinburgh takes place on 15 June, 2019.

Join Marc Di Tommasi for a discussion on the role played by socio-economic conditions behind migrant housing practices.

Applications are sought from current postgraduate students (MA or PhD) studying in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to participate in a week-long collaborative archives workshop in Nairobi in October 2019. 

Contributions are sought by 3 June for the 3rd Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies which will take place 22-23 November, 2019.

An excellent opportunity for future Classics teachers to meet those already in the job. Whether you are sure you want to teach or just think it's a possibility in the future, this meeting will allow you to learn more about a potential career as a teacher!

2019 marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Andrew Carnegie and of several epochal events in the history of internationalism. The University of Edinburgh is hosting a conference focusing on some of the themes of Carnegie’s life and the year 1919.

Please note that this event has been postponed. The 2019 Denys Hay Lecture will be delivered by Professor John Haldon (Princeton) on 28 May, 2019.

Join us for an exclusive screening of this hit documentary about a remarkable act of solidarity.

The first in a series of three conferences, this conference brings together Sinologists and Byzantinists with an interest in, and willingness to engage in, cross-cultural work.

A 'History Ireland' ‘Hedge School’, designed to offer the general public access to the latest research findings from leading scholars, will take place on 15 May, 2019..

A public lecture by Dr David Doddington, as part of the project 'Slavery and Honour in Ancient Greece'.

Part of the 'Conectando: Scottish Encounters with Spanish and Portuguese' exhibition at the Main Library Exhibition Gallery.

Northern Lights: A one-day training event for postgraduates of Ancient History enrolled in HEI’s in Scotland and Northern England.

As part of the research project The Matter of Slavery in Scotland, Professor Beverly Lemire will present the lecture 'Material technologies of empire: tobacco, textiles and race in everyday Scottish life' on 26 April, 2019.

Professor Jennifer Morgan will deliver the 2019 Lecture in the History of Slavery for the Edinburgh Centre for Global History, 'Reckoning with slavery: kinship and capitalism in the early Black Atlantic' on 25 April, 2019.

A workshop with Professor Jennifer Morgan on the intertwined themes of slavery, gender and capitalism in the early modern world, will take place on 25 April, 2019.

Our live and interactive online session will enable you to hear from and talk to our programme staff.

The First Year PhD in History Conference will take place in Edinburgh in April, 2019.

The Munro Lecture 'Nature but not only. Stories from the anthropo-not-seen' given by Professor Marisol de la Cadena:on Thursday 4 April, 2019.

The Munro Lecture 'Flows, boundaries, and entanglements: Unraveling colonial encounters in Ancient Mediterranean France' by Professor Michael Dietler on 4 April, 2019.

Anna Lively, PhD candidate at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology joins David White and Ian Wood to discuss, 'The Spectre That Came Alive: Reactions to the Bolshevik Revolution' at the Open History Society.

This public workshop will explore the role that history and historians can play in the design of games.

The Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History is delighted to be hosting two film screenings on the theme of 'Culture, Class and Mental Health in Postwar Britain'.

Professor Guy Ortolano follows the then Prime Minister’s progress on a tour through Milton Keynes on 25 September 1979, alighting at successive stops to examine the broader histories of urban planning, modernist architecture, and international consulting.

The 2019 Fennell Lecture will be given by Professor Joanne Freeman entitled, 'The field of blood: Violence in the US Congress and the road to Civil War' on 21 March, 2019.

Professor Sir Tom Devine, Professor Emeritus of History, will give this year's Tannahill Lecture at Aye Write! on 16th March.

Dr Anna Groundwater, Teaching Fellow in Historical Skills and Methods, talks about her book 'Scotland Connected' at Glasgow's literary festival Aye Write!

Dr Aaron Allen will be speaking at the Old Edinburgh Club on 13 March, 2019.

Our Postgraduate Online Information Sessions are an excellent way for you to learn more about your chosen programme and ask questions you may have about postgraduate study here in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

The Edinburgh University History Society and Edinburgh University Jewish Society invite you to hear the individual and striking testimony of Tomi Komoly born in Budapest, Hungary 1936.

The Honour in Classical Greece ERC project announces a workshop featuring Dr William Mack and Dr Rodrigo Illarraga on 12 March, 2019.

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology presents an International Women’s Day event led by Dr Nicola Bishop, Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Dr Matthew Simonton will take part in a workshop on 7 March, 2019.

'Remembering the Great Finnish Famine of the 1860s: Comparative reflections from Ireland and the Scottish Highlands'. A free public lecture by visiting Northern Scholar Dr Andrew Newby (Tampere Institute for Advanced Social Research, Finland).

Dr Matthew Simonton will deliver the lecture ‘The Demagogues of Ancient Greece: Populism and Popular Culture in Antiquity’ as part of the Scottish Hellenic Society series on 5 March, 2019.

A symposium in memory of Nicholas Phillipson (1937 - 2018).

The Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History is delighted to be hosting two film screenings on the theme of 'Culture, Class and Mental Health in Postwar Britain'.

Professor Stephen Lambert will take part in a workshop within the context of the ERC Honour in Classical Greece Project on 26 February, 2019.

This particular lecture will be given by Professor Stephen Lambert on 25 February, 2019.

Think 'Assassin's Creed' is just a video game? Find out how accurate it is, and perhaps learn a little something at this Festival of Creative Learning event.

Professor J. H. Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus will discuss 'Scotland and Catalonia. Nations without States'

The deadline for submissions to the the 15th International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Congress at the University of Edinburgh in July 2019 is 1 February 2019.

Proposals for either a paper or poster for the 2019 UISPP Metal Ages in Europe Conference "Where are you going: Reconsidering migrations in the Metal Ages" are invited. Deadline 31 January, 2019.

The second annual Scottish Student Archaeology Society Conference will take in Edinburgh 26 and 27 January, 2019.

Professor Jones talks about her new book 'Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America ' on 16th January, 2019.

First of programme of events exploring the ways in which we discuss and commemorate the lived experience of the Second World War - 11 January 2019.

The second annual Scottish Student Archaeology Society Conference will take in Edinburgh on 26 and 27 January, 2019. The deadline for submissions is 5 January 2019.