Current Programme

The Centre hosts a seminar series which takes place throughout the academic year and is open to staff, students and the general public.

Semester 1 2026/27

DateSpeakerTopicVenue
Wed 23 September, 16:00Betty Banks, Huw Halsted, Marie LeGendre and Sarah NaramoreOpening Event: Lightning TalksChrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 1
Thursday, 15 October, 15:00Nana Osei-Opare (Rice University)“Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana’s Cold War”Chrystal Macmillan Building, Violet Laidlaw Room
Thursday, 5 November, 17:00Nino Luraghi (Oxford)

Annual Lecture on the History of Slavery

“Silencing the Past: From Haiti to the Peloponnese”

G.159, MacLaren Stuart Room, Old College
Friday, 6 November, 11:00Nino Luraghi (Oxford), Mirko Canevaro (HCA), Matthew Hewitt (HCA), and Christian Whyte (Glasgow).Roundtable:
“Studying Ancient Slavery: Sources and Methods”		Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 1
Wednesday, 18 November, 16:10Sonia Tycko (HCA), Chloë Kennedy (Law) and Adam Fox (HCA)Book Launch: "Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700"Raeburn Room, Old College
Wednesday, 25 November, 16:00Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort University)“Mobility, Portability, Recycling: Genizah Documents from a Metals Workshop in 12th-Century Malabar”G. 06, Doorway 6, Old Medical School

Semester 1 2024/25

Edinburgh Centre for Global History Seminar series 2024/25
Date Speaker Topic Venue
18 September Meha Priyadarshini (HCA), Michelle Keown (LLC), Rosi Carr (HCA), Julia McClure (Glasgow), & Mahmood Kooria (HCA)) Opening Event: Lightning Talks
9 October Ayele Tariku Meshesha (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia) 'The Transformation of Justice in Late Medieval Ethiopia: The Wämbär System'
17 October Benedetta Rossi (UCL) 'The Problem of African Slavery in the Age of Abolition' 5pm, Screening Room, 50 George Square
28 October Peter Hill (Northumbria) 'Disturbance of Thoughts: Doubt, Impiety, and Unbelief in the Arab-Ottoman World, 17th-19th Centuries' co-badge with IMES Seminar 5.15pm, Project Room 1.06, 50 George Sq
30 October Akram Salhab (QMUL), Donald Bloxham (HCA), & Julie Gibbings (HCA), chaired by Shaira Vadasaria (SPS) Genocide, Colonialism & Pedagogy: Lessons from Palestine
10 November, 10.00 Details TBC Shared Colonial Histories between the Universities of Edinburgh & Melbourne Online Webinar
27 November Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene (National University of Mongolia) 'The Nomadic Conquest Theory & Its Implications for Human History: New Visions Past & Future'
28 November David Cox (Southampton) 'Conjure and the Debate Over Slavery', co-badged with the American History Seminar

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