Edinburgh Centre for Global History Graduate Workshops
The Graduate Workshop research seminars take place throughout the academic year and are open to all.
Seminar description
Workshops are held fortnightly on Tuesday at 13:00 in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, situated in the William Robertson Wing of the Old Medical School. These sessions typically last an hour, comprised of a thirty-minute presentation and followed by a question and answer session.
All are welcome - especially fellow PhD candidates and early career researchers.
Time and location
The Graduate Workshops take place on Tuesdays, 1.00-2.00pm in G.15 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School) on the dates listed below.
Event schedule
Semester 1, 2019/20
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Tuesday 24 Sept | Kirsty Kernohan (Aberdeen) |
'Privileged mobility and wandering objects: The Keith-Falconer women’s leisured colonialism' |
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Tuesday 8 Oct |
Frazer Macdonald Hay (Edinburgh) | 'Place: An actor in migration and displacement in contemporary Iraq' |
| Tuesday 29 Oct | Hessa AlNuaimi (St Andrews) | 'The racialisation of South Asian migrants in Kuwait and Qatar through colonial historical narratives' |
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Tuesday 5 Nov |
Bennett Collins (St Andrews) | 'Catastrophe and dislocation: Identifying historical violence of the American settler colonial state in environmental and climate induced retreat ' |
| Tuesday 19 Nov | Sohni Chakrabarti (St Andrews) |
'Discordant movements: Imagination of transcultural spaces of belonging in contemporary American diasporic women’s writing' |
Further information
Further information about the workshop series can be found on the series website.
If you wish to speak at one of the workshops, please email the organiser James Mackay.