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 2024/25

DateSpeakerTopicVenue
Wed 18 September, 16.00Meha Priyadarshini (HCA), Michelle Keown (LLC), Rosi Carr (HCA), Julia McClure (Glasgow), & Mahmood Kooria (HCA)Opening Event: Lightning TalksSeminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Wed 9 October, 16.00Ayele Tariku Meshesha (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia)'The Transformation of Justice in Late Medieval Ethiopia: The Wämbär System'Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Thurs 17 October, 17.00Benedetta Rossi (UCL)'The Problem of African Slavery in the Age of Abolition', Annual Lecture in the History of SlaveryScreening Room, 50 George Sq
Mon 28 October, 17.15Peter Hill (Northumbria)'Disturbance of Thoughts: Doubt, Impiety, and Unbelief in the Arab-Ottoman World, 17th-19th Centuries' co-badged with IMESProject Room 1.06, 40 George Sq
Wed 30 October, 16.00Akram Salhab (QMUL), Donald Bloxham (HCA), & Julie Gibbings (HCA), chaired by Shaira Vadasaria (SPS)'Genocide, Colonialism & Pedagogy: Lessons from Palestine', co-badged with the Decolonisation Working Group & CSMCHSeminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Wed 13 November, 09.00Nicola Frith (Decolonised Transformations, Edinburgh), Cressida Fforde (Australian National University), Malcom MacCallum (Anatomical Museum, Edinburgh), Marcia Langton (Melbourne), Zoe Laidlaw (Melbourne), Ross Jones (Melbourne), Rohan Long (Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, Melbourne)'Truth Telling: Colonial and Racial Legacies of the Universities of Edinburgh and Melbourne', co-badged with REWG & IASHOnline Webinar
Wed 27 November, 16.00Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene (National University of Mongolia)'The Nomadic Conquest Theory & Its Implications for Human History: New Visions Past & Future'Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Thurs 28 November, 17.00David Cox (Southampton)'Conjure and the Debate Over Slavery', co-badged with the American History SeminarLG.10, 50 George Sq

 

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