Global and Transnational Group seminars
The Global and Transnational Research Group seminars take place throughout the academic year and are open to all, within and outside the University.
Time and location
Please see below for details of times and location.
A drinks reception will follow evening seminars. Everyone is warmly welcome.
In the case of lunchtime work in progress seminars, those on the mailing list will receive a copy of the paper for discussion in advance, anyone else should contact the organisers to request a copy.
Events schedule
Semester 2, 2018/19
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time & venue |
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Wednesday 16 Jan |
Iva Pesa (University of Oxford) |
'Mining, waste and environmental thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950-2000' (This event is hosted jointly with the Centre of African Studies) | 16.00-18.00, Seminar rooms 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building |
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Wednesday 30 Jan |
Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick) |
'Potatoes and the pursuit of happiness' | 17.15-19.00, LG10, David Hume Tower |
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Thursday 7 Feb |
Talat Ahmed (University of Edinburgh) |
'Gandhi @150: why does he matter?', followed by book launch (This event is hosted jointly with the Centre for South Asian Studies) | 16.00-18.00, 6th floor staffroom, Crystal Macmillan Building |
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Wednesday 13 Feb |
Bethan Fisk (University of Leeds) |
'Freedom in the interstices: Social geographies of religion in the Spanish Caribbean' | 17.15-19.00, LG10, David Hume Tower |
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Tuesday 26 Feb |
Sara Legrandjacques (Sorbonne) |
'Colonial students on the move: a global history of student mobility from colonial Asia (British India - French Indochina, 1850s-1940s) | 13.00-14.00, LG10, David Hume Tower |
| Wednesday 13 Mar | Vikram Tamboli (Institute for Historical Research in London) |
'The Death of Walter Rodney: A Conspiratorial History' |
17.15-19.00, LG10, David Hume Tower |
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Tuesday 26 Mar |
Sarah Cockram (University of Edinburgh) |
‘Transnational animals in Renaissance Italy’ | 13.00-14.00, LG10, David Hume Tower |
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Wednesday 27 Mar |
Panel Discussion | 'What is global history (in Edinburgh) now?' | 17.15-19.00, LG10, David Hume Tower |
| Tuesday 24 Apr | Workshop | 'Thinking without modernity: Perspectives from the premodern globe?' | 14.00-17.00, Seminar Room 5, Chrystal MacMillan Building |
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Thursday 25 Apr |
Jennifer Morgan (New York University) |
'Reckoning with slavery: kinship and capitalism in the early Black Atlantic' |
17.30-19.00, Meadows Lecture Theatre, |
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Friday 26 Apr |
Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta) |
'Material technologies of empire: tobacco, textiles and race in everyday Scottish life' |
17.30-19.00, Meadows Lecture Theatre, |
|
Wednesday 1 May |
John McGreevy (Notre Dame) |
'Jacques Maritain, the democratic crisis and the promise and perils of a global Catholic history' |
17.15-19.00, 2.03 50 George Square |
| Wednesday 22 May | Sara Johnson (UCSD) | 'Notes Towards an Encyclopédie Noire' | 13.00-14.00, Room 1.26, Doorway 4, Old Medical School |
Semester 1, 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time & venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 3 Oct | AGM and Planning Meeting | 13.00-15.00, Room 2.36, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place | |
| Wednesday 3 Oct | Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge) | ‘Economic achievement and disappointment in post-independence Africa: The case of Ghana, 1957-2017’ |
16.00-18.00, Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place (with Economic and Society History seminars) |
| Wednesday 17 Oct | Julia McClure (University of Glasgow) | ‘Poverty on the move in the Spanish empire’ | 17.15 |
| Wednesday 31 Oct | Katharine Gerbner (University of Minnesota) | ‘Maroons and Missionaries: religion, gender and freedom in eighteenth-century Jamaica’ | 17.15 |
| Tuesday 6 Nov | Vanessa Ogle (University of California – Berkeley) |
'Empire’s revenge: Decolonization and the spaces of offshore capitalism' |
17.00-19.00, LG09, David Hume Tower With Centre for Modern and Contemporary History |
| Wednesday 14 Nov | Crispin Bates (University of Edinburgh) |
‘Indian Overseas Labour Migration, 1857-69’ |
13.00-14.00, Room G12, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place |
| Tuesday 20 Nov | Michael Goebel (Freie Universität, Berlin) |
'Patchwork cities: Urban ethnic segregation in the global south in the age of steam' |
17.00-19.00, LG09, David Hume Tower With Centre for Modern and Contemporary History |
| Tuesday 27 Nov |
Tom Cunningham, Henry Mitchell and team (University of Edinburgh), ‘UncoverEd’ |
UncoverEd is a student-led decolonial research project which aims to uncover the histories of Edinburgh alumni from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Americas 1780s-1980s. In this session the researchers will present some of their findings from the project. |
13.00-14.00, Room G16, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place |
| Wednesday 28 Nov | Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews) |
‘Useful knowledge and natural history in the eighteenth-century Indo-Pacific world’ |
17.15 |
| Friday 7 Dec | Jennifer Anderson (Stony Brook University, New York) |
'From rainforest to parlour: Revealing the history of slavery in mahogany furniture' |
17.30-18.30, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place |
Further information
Please contact the convenors if you have any questions or wish to be added to our mailing list.
Dr Emma Hunter
African History
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Work: 0131 650 4034
- Email: Emma.Hunter@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Dr Hunter's staff profile
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
Professor Nuala Zahedieh
Director, Scottish Centre for Diaspora Series
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Work: +44(0) 131 650 3836
- Email: N.Zahedieh@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Professor Zahedieh's staff profile
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