American History events
The School offers an American History Workshop series, Edinburgh-Virginia Videoseminars and an Early American Reading Group.
Further information on each of these - including contact emails - can be found under this semester's integrated programme, below.
| Time/date | Topic | Speaker | Location or contact person |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5pm Thurs 20 Feb | War without Terms: George Jackson, the Black Panther Party, and the Prison, 1961-1972 | Zoe Colley (University of Dundee) | G200 (Seminar room 3), Doorway 3, Old Medical School |
| 5pm Thurs 27 Feb | African American Urban History: Transatlantic Origins | Joe Trotter (Carnegie Mellon University) | G200 (Seminar room 3), Doorway 3, Old Medical School |
| 1pm Fri 28 Feb | ‘The American Left,’ Transatlantic Seminar | Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (University of Edinburgh) | Seminar room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building |
| 3pm Fri 28 Feb | Early American Reading Group | - | Frank Cogliano |
| 5pm Thurs 20 Mar | Patriotism and the Right to Dissent | Fabian Hilfrich (University of Edinburgh) | G.10, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School |
| 5pm Thurs 27 Mar | Video seminar | - | Video Suite, Main Library |
| 3pm Fri 25 Apr | Early American Reading Group | - | Frank Cogliano |
| 5pm Thurs 15 May | Right Across the Atlantic: British and American Anticommunism between the Wars | Kathryn Olmsted (University of California, Davis) | G200 (Seminar room 3), Doorway 3, Old Medical School, Teviot Place |
| Time/date | Topic | Speaker | Location or contact person |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4pm Thurs 26 Sept | Early American Reading Group | - | Frank Cogliano |
| 5pm Wed 2 Oct | “A dream of nightmare proportions”: The US, the UK, and the Pakistani nuclear weapons programme during 1979. (American History Workshop) | Malcolm Craig (Edinburgh) | Robert Mason |
| Time tbc, Tues 8 Oct | Perpetual War? Presidential Power and North Africa, 1801-5. (Edinburgh University History Society Lecture) | Frank Cogliano (Edinburgh) | Frank Cogliano |
| *6pm Wed 9 Oct | Caribbean slavery | Philip Morgan (Johns Hopkins) | Teviot Lecture Theatre |
| 5pm Thurs 10 Oct | Video seminar | - | Video Suite, Main Library – contact Jane Judge |
| *5.30pm, Thurs 17 Oct | Woodrow Wilson | A. Scott Berg | Teviot Lecture Theatre |
| 4pm Thurs 24 Oct | Early American Reading Group | - | Frank Cogliano |
| 1pm Fri 25 Oct | Emperor of Liberty: Revisiting Jefferson’s Statecraft. (Transatlantic Seminar, School of Social and Political Science) | Frank Cogliano (Edinburgh) | Frank Cogliano |
| 5pm Wed 30 Oct | American unicorn: Ralph Nader and the politics of scale. (American History Workshop) | Daniel Scroop (Glasgow) | Robert Mason |
| 4pm Thurs 14 Nov | Video Seminar | - | Video Suite, Main Library - contact Jane Judge |
| 5pm Wed 20 Nov | Video Seminar with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture | - | Video Suite, Main Library - contact Jane Judge |
| 5pm Thurs 5 Dec | The Idea of Surrender in the American Civil War. (American History Workshop) | David Silkenat (Edinburgh) | Robert Mason |
* The 'Caribbean Slavery' lecture and talk on 'Woodrow Wilson' are free but ticketed. Please book in advance:
American History workshops
The American History workshop is an informal seminar that meets approximately four times each semester to discuss pre-circulated work in progress, normally a draft chapter or article.
Authors (including our own graduate students and staff as well as visiting scholars from beyond Edinburgh) introduce their pre-circulated piece of writing with brief comments before opening the floor for discussion and feedback. Academics and graduate students from Edinburgh and neighbouring universities are welcome to attend the workshop.
Please email Robert Mason if you would like to be added to the mailing list, or to request a pre-circulated paper.
Prof Robert Mason
Contact details
- Work: 0131 650 3770
- Email: Robert.Mason@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Prof Mason's staff profile
Edinburgh-Virginia videoseminars
Since 2007 staff and students at the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Virginia with early American interests (broadly defined) have collaborated on a number of research activities, including a series of postgraduate video seminars.
During the video sessions postgraduate students from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Virginia discuss pre-circulated research papers. Videoseminars normally meet at 5pm. If you are interested in participating in the video seminars please email Jane Judge.
Jane Judge
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: j.c.judge@sms.ed.ac.uk
Early American reading group
The Early American Reading group brings together postgraduate students from Edinburgh and Glasgow to discuss seminal readings in the field—both old ‘classics’ and newer works.
Rather than just another thing to go to, we intend that the group’s meetings should be intellectually stimulating and convivial—sociable in the best eighteenth-century sense. It’s an opportunity to read and discuss key texts in our field in an informal setting while also allowing postgraduates from both institutions to get to know each other. The group is run by professors Frank Cogliano (Edinburgh) and Simon Newman (Glasgow).
The reading group normally meets at 4pm.
If you are interested in participating please send an email to Frank Cogliano.
Professor Frank Cogliano
Professor of American History
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: F.Cogliano@ed.ac.uk