Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History seminars

'History in crisis: Monuments': A panel event featuring Dr Hilary Green (University of Alabama), Professor Hakim Adi (University of Chichester), Professor Patricia Rubertone (Brown University), Professor Anindita Ghosh (University of Manchester), and moderated by Professor Diana Paton (University of Edinburgh)

Register on Eventbrite, https://edin.ac/2LAt7v7 

'Towards a global history of political violence since 1945'

With comments from Professor Alex de Waal (Tufts University) and Dr Julie Gibbings (University of Edinburgh)

Dr Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh), 'France' (Polity Press, 2020). A book launch co-hosted with New York University

With comments from Derrick Chapman (New York University), Evan Spritzer (City University of New York/New York University), and Minayo Nasiali (University of California, Los Angeles)

'Unskilled and unsanitary: Diplomacy and the public health crisis of Indian immigration to Britain' 

With comments from Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford) and TBC

'The French Revolution and the Laplaine Riot: Petitioning and direct action in Dominica' 

With comments from Christienna Fryar (Goldsmiths, University London) and Professor Diana Paton (University of Edinburgh)  

'Crisis and the Left'. A panel event featuring Sarah Jaffee (American freelance journalist), Dr Alejandro Velasco (New York University), Dr Rima Majed (American University Beirut), and Rory Scothorne (University of Edinburgh), moderated by Dr Jamie Allinson (University of Edinburgh).  

'Racial framing: Blackface criminals in Jim Crow America'

Tuesday 27 Oct 

In dialogue with Dr Abdourahmane Seck (University Gaston Berger, Senegal) and Professor Paul Nugent (Edinburgh).

“The Banished Sufi: Succession Crises and the Religious Dimensions of Deportation in Colonial Senegal.”

CSMCH - The Banished Sufi (231.44 KB PDF)

Tuesday 10 Nov

'Pandemics, Past and Present' - Adia Benton (Northwestern University), Mark Honigsbaum (University of London), Richard McKay (University of Oxford), Christos Lynteris (University of St Andrews) and Dora Vargha (University of Exter)

Register at pandemicspastandpresent.eventbrite.co.uk

A panel event co-hosted by the Edinburgh Centre for Global History Centre and History of Medicine, Science, and Technology seminar

Tuesday 24 Nov

Cold War cod: Towards an international history of Soviet fishing

'Tales of Shrimp and Debt' (553.31 KB PDF)

Tuesday 8 Dec

'Discontent in the Body Politic: Colonialism, corporeality, and the 'circumcision crisis' - Kenya, 1929'

Register: Eventbrite

'Discontent in the Body Politic' (1.75 MB PDF)

Panel event: 'Fish in crisis?: Economics, environments and the multiple crises of fishing'

Jennfier Lee Johnson (Purdue), Troy Vettese (Harvard), Ruth Brennan (Trinity College Dublin), Arianne Sedef Urus (Harvard), Moderator: Betty Banks (Edinburgh)

This panel will be a discussion of political, economic and environmental crises based in humans’ pursuit of seafood. Fishing is never just about fish but raises questions of labour, politics, sovereignty, environments, food, economics, and community life in the past and present that will drive our multi-perspective and interdisciplinary conversation. Together we will ask fishing in crisis? Are fish in crisis - and why? Is this crisis really new? Who–or what–exactly experiences crisis, who is benefitting, and what is to be done?

Register: Eventbrite

You can view a recording of this event at https://edin.ac/383AzGU

Tuesday 19 Jan

Hilary Green (Alabama)

Hakim Adi (Chichester)

Patricia Ruberstone (Brown University)

Anindita Ghosh (Manchester)

Moderator: Diana Paton (Edinburgh)

Tuesday 26 Jan

Tuesday 2 Feb

Tuesday 23 Feb

Tuesday 9 Mar

Anne Eller (Yale) in conversation with Christienna Fryar (Goldsmiths, University of London) and  Diana Paton (Edinburgh)

Sarah Jaffee (Journalist, United States), Alejandro Velasco (New York University), Rima Majed (American University Beirut), Rory Scothorne (Edinburgh)