2020

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

A live and interactive info session for anyone planning or considering postgraduate taught degrees with the School this September.

A live and interactive info session for anyone planning or considering postgraduate research with the School this September.

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

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.

What if class were a protected characteristic? This is just one of the questions under examination in this second workshop about working-class Classics.

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.

This Munro Lecture was delivered by Professor Eduardo G. Neves from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to host the annual UK Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar.

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

This workshop is a first step towards setting up a network of solidarity and support for working-class Classicists. It is open to anyone interested in this unprotected characteristic.

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.

Professor Professor Anna Tsing will deliver the Munro Lecture, 'What scale is the Anthropocene?'.

The next research meeting as part of the PAIXUE project will be on 'The impersonal logic of governance: Friendship, cultural affinity, and public service in Byzantium'.

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.

Join staff from the MSc Ancient Worlds (online) course and the Graduate Office on Tuesday 23rd February 2021 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm GMT.

While there are multiple LGBT+ communities in the UK, something that unites them is resilience in the face of crisis. Queer Britain, the national LGBTQ+ museum, has launched "Queer Pandemic," a remote-video oral history project.

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.

As we begin semester 2, this is an opportunity to discuss experiences and to look forward.

A virtual workshop at the Edinburgh Centre for Global History, University of Edinburgh.

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 postgraduate study in Archaeology and Classics online, join our live and interactive online session for more information.

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

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 Classics, 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.

If you are considering postgraduate study in Archaeology, 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 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 inaugural event for the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh's seminar series.

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.

The Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society (LAMPS)6th annual conference will take place online on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th July.

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.

The annual UK Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar will take place at the University of Edinburgh on 20 May 2020.

Join Dr Joanne Rowland (archaeology) and Dr Lucy Grig (Classics) for a live and interactive session on the online MSc in Ancient Worlds (Archaeology and Classics).

Join Dr David Kaufman for a live and interactive session on the online MSc in History.

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

'Aesthetic properties in Greek and Roman thought’ - a free public lecture by visiting Northern Scholar dr Eric Cullhed.

Professor Professor Anna Tsing will deliver the Munro Lecture, 'Feral atlas and the more-than-human Anthropocene'.

The 2021 Lecture in the History of Slavery was delivered by Professor Ana-Lucia Araujo, Howard University.

The 2020 Charles Gordon Mackay Lecture will be delivered by Dr Julian Gallego, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

In addition to the 2020 Charles Gordon Mackay Lecture, Dr Julian Gallego will deliver a workshop.

The annual UK Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar will take place at the University of Edinburgh in May 2020.

Dr Kath McSweeney will be leading this session on Postgraduate Taught programmes in Archaeology, an excellent opportunity to find out more and ask questions.

Join Dr Kim Czajkowski for this session on Postgraduate Taught programmes in Classics, an excellent opportunity for you to learn more about your chosen programme and ask questions you may have.

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

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. Join Professor Diana Paton for this session on Postgraduate Taught programmes in History.

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

The School will host the third edition of the IberoArchUK workshop in June 2020. Submissions are requested by 15 March.

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.

A research meeting as part of the Paixue Project will take place on 14 February with Professor Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh).

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.

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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.

Submissions are invited for papers or posters on all aspects of conflict archaeology from all periods for the 11th Biennial Fields of Conflict Conference to be held in Edinburgh in September 2020.