Edinburgh Centre for Global History seminars
The Edinburgh Centre for Global History seminars take place throughout the academic year and are open to all, within and outside the University.
Semester 1 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 |
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| Wednesday 23 Sept |
Anne Gerritsen (Warwick), in conversation with Stephen McDowall (ECGH) |
'The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World’ |
| Wednesday 7 Oct | Manuel Barcia (Leeds) | ‘The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade’ |
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Monday 12 Oct
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Online Roundtable Discussion Co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) |
'Critical Globalism: Perspectives from Early Modern Artistic Networks (16th–18th Centuries)' Details and Registration here: |
| Wednesday 21 Oct | Ceyda Karamursel (SOAS) | ‘The Sack and the Bowstring: A Global History of Ottoman Slavery and Freedom’ |
| Wednesdays 4 Nov | Kalathmika Natarajan (Edinburgh) | 'Histories of the "International" : Caste, Migration and Indian Diplomacy' |
| Tuesday 10 Nov |
Online Roundtable Discussion Co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History and the Histories of Science, Medicine and Technology Research Group |
'Pandemics, Past and Present' NB 5pm |
| Wednesday 18 Nov | Luke Gartlan (St Andrews) | ‘Inventing Provinciality: St Andrews and the Global Mobilities of Victorian Photography’ |
| Wednesday 2 Dec |
Hatice Yıldız (Edinburgh) Co-sponsored by the Histories of Gender and Sexuality Research Group |
‘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
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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.