Events archive - 2020

This discussion is moderated by Wendy Ugolini. Jonathan Black will be speaking on wartime artist Eric Kennington, Grace Stephenson on British cinema newsreels, and Marc Wiggam on the British national press.

The Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society's 7th annual conference will take place on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 June.

This discussion on East Asia is moderated by Dr Felix Boecking, and features papers from Dr Andrew Levidis, Ms. Odila Schroeder, and Dr Jeremy Yellen.

The 2021 Fennell Lecture was delivered by Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, entitled 'On Juneteenth: “This, Then, is Texas”'.

A workshop with Professor Ana Lucia Araujo on on the themes of slavery, race, history and memory.

The 2022 Lecture in the History of Slavery was delivered by Professor Indrani Chatterjee (University of Texas) on 'Entangled Hierarchies: Of Varna-Jati, Casta and Slaves in historic South Asia'

Professor Ciaran Martin in conversation with Professor Sir Tom Devine and Professor Ngaire Woods.

Submissions are invited for the 7th Annual Conference of the Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society.

The next Munro Lecture will be given by Professor Robin D G Kelly, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA.

Mark International Women's Day with activists Sally Alexander, Sue Finch, Jenny Fortune, Jane Grant, Jo Robinson and Sarah Wilson.

Join staff from the MSc History (online) course and the Graduate Office on Wednesday 24th February 2021 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm GMT.

The first Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival will take place 5-7 February 2021.

The virtual forum brought together some of the leading historians in the field of American history for a discussion of the recent US presidential election and its consequences.

The first Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival will take place 5-7 February 2020.

The University of Edinburgh Political History Group are organising a multidisciplinary and cross-institutional conference on the historical development, current state and future prospects of local democracy in Scotland.

The University of Edinburgh, in association with the National Library of Scotland, will be hosting a free online Conference 20-21 November, 2020.

The conference focuses on disasters (natural, manmade or “supernatural”) that shape historical memory and our understanding of the past, concentrating on the problematic relations between catastrophes and memory in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine societies.

If you are considering research postgraduate study in History, Classics or Archaeology join our live and interactive online session for more information.

Professor Julian Goodare's Inaugural Lecture will be given on 11 November, 2020.

If you are considering postgraduate study in History, join our live and interactive online session for more information.

If you are considering postgraduate study in History online, join our live and interactive online session for more information.

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology will host John Siblon speaking on ‘"Disposable lives; ungrievable deaths": The commemoration of African colonial troops after the First World War' as part of Black History Month.

The inaugural talk of the History and Games Lab Seminar.

‘Slavery, family, and William Robertson’s Edinburgh’ - Professor Diana Paton's Inaugural Lecture as William Robertson Professor of History will be given on 23 September, 2020.

The University of Edinburgh, in association with the National Library of Scotland, will be hosting a free online Conference 20-21 November, 2020. Submissions are invited by 20 August, 2020.

Amid calls calls for the removal of Henry Dundas's statue, historians with specialist knowledge of his career come together to discuss and analyse all aspects of his relationship to slavery.

This conference brings together scholars working on slavery and childhood to explore the role and extent of child slavery in the Roman Empire.

Second World Studies welcomes delegates to its first international conference, marking the eightieth anniversary of the second year of the conflict.

This conference will explore how economic, social, political and cultural crises sparked changes in the temporality between the past and the future.

This conference will explore how economic, social, political and cultural crises sparked changes in the temporality between the past and the future.

The 2022 Lecture in the History of Slavery was delivered by Professor Indrani Chatterjee (University of Texas) on 'Entangled Hierarchies: Of Varna-Jati, Casta and Slaves in historic South Asia'

A workshop with Professor Ana Lucia Araujo on on the themes of slavery, race, history and memory.

Join Postgraduate Recruitment & Engagement Officer Dr Meha Priyadarshini in a live and interactive online session about our PGR programmes.

Find out what it's really like to be a postgraduate student with the School of History, Classics and Archaeology with Marina Lant.

Professor Monica H Green will deliver the 2020 Fennell Lecture on 5 March, 2020.

School of History, Classics and Archaeology students are invited to an information session around the forthcoming industrial action.

This conference brings together scholars working on slavery and childhood to explore the role and extent of child slavery in the Roman Empire.

The 2019-20 Arbuthnott Lecture will be delivered by Professor Diarmaid Ferriter MRIA (University College Dublin). This event was postponed from 28 November, 2019.

Second World Studies at Edinburgh will be hosting its first international conference in June 2020 to mark the eightieth anniversary of the second year of the conflict. It invites all scholars with an interest in the Second World War to submit an abstract which engages in some way with the events and/or memory of 1940.

In August and September of 2019 students explored the multiple pasts of Macedonia on an 11-day fieldtrip through the sites of the historic region. Join them at this free event to find out their conclusions.