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 2025/26

DateSpeakerTopicVenue
Wed 17 September, 16.00Joseph La Hausse de Lalouvière (HCA), Abigail McBain (LLC), Hana Sleiman (HCA), Julie Gibbings (HCA), & David Wilson (Strathclyde)Opening Event: Lightning TalksLG.09, 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub
Wed 1 October, 16.00Teren Sevea (Harvard)'Alexanders and Islamic Saints: Kingship, Shrines, and Memories of Singapura'LG.11, 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub
Fri 3 October, 13.00Raquel Wilson (Kentucky)'The Historical Antecedents to Contemporary Crime and Punishment in Grenada'2.04, Edinburgh Futures Institute
Wed 15 Oct, 14:10

Prof Christopher Brown (Columbia), Dr Joseph La Hausse de Lalouvière (HCA), Prof Diana Paton (HCA), and Dr Meg Roberts (HCA)

Chaired by Dr Sonia Tycko (HCA)

Roundtable: “Writing the History of Abolition in the Age of Revolutions: Reflections on Moral Capital at 20”LG.09, 40 George Sq
Wed 15 October, 17.15Christopher Brown (Columbia)'The Atlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolution', Annual Lecture in the History of SlaveryMacLaren Stuart Room, Old College (G.159)
Wed 29 October, 16.00Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene (National University of Mongolia)'Sinocentrism, the Nomadic Conquest Theory & the Implications for Human History: New Visions Past & Future'LG.11, 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub
Wed 19 November, 16.00Moin Nizami (Oxford)'Negotiating Spiritual Authority Across Distance: Imdadullah’s Letters from the Hijaz'LG.11, 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub
Wed 26 November, 16.00Maria Grazia Imperiale (Glasgow)

Nicola Perugini (SPS)		'Genocide, Academic Solidarity & the Edinburgh Race Review: Learning from LINEs4Palestine'LG.11, 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub

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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