Events archive - 2019

The winter graduations will take place on Friday 20 November.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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 Christopher Harding, Senior Lecturer in Asian History, explores the unexpectedly rebellious side of Japan at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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

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 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.

If you're considering undergraduate study with us our Undergraduate Open Day and events within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology are a great way of finding out more. The next Undergraduate Open Day is 10 June, 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.

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.

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..

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 gave 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.

Submissions are sought for the 5th Annual Conference of the Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society at the University of Edinburgh by 5 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.

'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).

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

We are delighted to announce a launch event for Dr Talat Ahmed’s new book, ‘Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience’ on Thursday 7 February.

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.

A Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Society event featuring Dr Robert Crowcroft, Dr Tereza Valny and Dr David Kaufman, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, on 31 January, 2019.

This is the first Call for Papers for the inaugural meeting of Northern Lights, a one-day workshop for postgraduate research students in Ancient History in the north of the UK. The deadline is 21 January, 2019.

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