Seminar series
The Centre runs a regular seminar series with invited speakers.
This year’s theme is ‘Exile’.
Time and location
Seminars are usually held on Tuesdays from 4pm to 6pm in Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Old Medical School but please check details below for individual events.
Event schedule
Semester 2, 2022/23
| Date | Speaker | Title | Note |
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| Tue 24 Jan | Dr Jay Sarkar (University of Glasgow) | 'Locating the Rohingyas in decolonisation as a moment, process, and movement ' |
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Tue 7 Feb POSTPONED |
Dr Rodrigo Veliz (University of Leeds) | '"El principal enemigo nacional", Revolutionary Guatemala's response to Allied post-war policy towards German presence in Latin America (1944-1951)' |
POSTPONED |
| Tue 7 Mar | Dr Huw Halstead (University of Edinburgh) |
'Ilias's defaced identity card, and other stories of exile and everyday citizenship with the Greeks of Turkey' |
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Wed 15 Mar POSTPONED |
Dr Wannes Dupont (University of Edinburgh) |
'A conspiracy against life: Global Catholicism and birth control at the United Nations, 1948-1968' Joint event with the Histories of Gender and Sexuality Research Group |
POSTPONED until Autumn 2023 |
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Tues 28 Mar LISTER LEARNING AND TEACHING CENTRE ROOM 4.3 |
Dr Grace Carrington (UCL) | ‘Decolonisation in the non-sovereign Caribbean’ | |
| Thu 6 Apr |
CSMCH Postgraduate Reading Group HYBRID |
The Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History is holding a postgraduate reading group at which Robert Gerwarth & Stephan Malinowski, ‘Hannah Arendt’s Ghosts: Reflections on the Disputable Path from Windhoek to Auschwitz,’ Central European History 42, no. 2 (2009), pp. 279–300. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40600596 will be discussed. Open to all postgraduate students regardless of discipline or research background! If you would like to attend remotely please email mathew.nicolson@ed.ac.uk for a joining link. |
12 noon in Room 1M.20, William Robertson Wing |
| Wed 12 Apr | CSMCH PGR Writing Retreat |
The Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History are hosting a writing retreat so come along - 10am – 4pm - and get writing! Food, drink and a calm writing space provided. |
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| Wed 26 Apr |
Professor Sandy O’Sullivan (Macquarie University, Australia) |
'Saving lives and the colonial project of gender at the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures' 6:30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Room G.07 |
Register |
Semester 1, 2022/23
| Date | Speaker | Title | Venue | Register |
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Tue 20 Sep |
Lisa Williams |
'Edinburgh, enslavement and exile' |
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| Wed 5 Oct |
Professor Richard Overy |
Chronologies 'Blood and ruins: The great imperial war 1931-1945' Joint event with the SWW Network |
Meadows Lecture Theatre, G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre | |
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Tue 18 Oct |
Dr Tana Trivedi |
'An archive at the margins: Positing ‘Deshi Rajya’ as a counterfactual narrative' Joint event with IASH |
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| Tue 1 Nov |
Dr Nick Batho |
‘Classrooms without walls’: Black American children’s literature and educational activism' |
Register | |
| Tue 22 Nov |
Dr Mobeen Hussain |
'Self-fashioning bodies, performing fairness: Tracing the materiality of skin-lightening across Colonial India' |
Register |
Further information
If you have any questions, or would like to be added to the Centre email distribution list to receive details of the seminars and other events that may be of interest, please email us.
The Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History
Contact details
- Email: csmch.admin@ed.ac.uk
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