Graduate Research

The Edinburgh Centre for Global History Graduate Research hub is a vibrant community that fosters collaboration and intellectual growth among postgraduate researchers in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) at the University of Edinburgh. The hub is open to all postgraduate students within the school.

The graduate hub aims to create a space where postgraduate researchers can connect, share ideas, and advance their understanding of global history by facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue and providing a platform for academic development and networking.

Our graduate hub is open to any graduate across all schools whose research fits into global history broadly understood and welcomes researchers from across the university in all departments.

ECGH Graduate Workshop

Our Graduate Workshop is a series of graduate-led sessions that provide a relaxed environment for researchers to present their work. The workshop aims to foster the exchange of ideas across various historical themes and periods related to global history. Our workshops provide an environment where PhD students and postgraduates can critically analyse their peers' work and engage in open discussions about the challenges scholars of global history face. The workshop encourages open discussions on scholarly challenges and methodologies and develops critical analysis skills by engaging with diverse historical topics. Postgraduate researchers from across the university are more than welcome to attend or participate in these sessions.

To join our mailing list or receive updates on our events, please get in touch via email!

You are also welcome to get in contact with our co-conveners:

Please note: Interested attendees should email the convenors to receive the pre-circulated paper in advance. The workshop is for graduate students only. Refreshments will be served.

Edinburgh Centre for Global History Graduate Workshops take place on Wednesdays, 4-5:30 pm, in room G.13 of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Old Medical School, Doorway 4.

Semester 2 2024/25

Date	Speaker	Topic
Wed 29 January	Hanzhi Dai (HCA)	'Overcoming Troubles: Yan Xishan, Regional Mobilization, and Surviving in Shanxi through Wars 1928-1949' Attendees are also welcome to the Old Medical School, Doorway 4, McMillan Room for a coffee hour at 3pm before this workshop.
Wed 12 February	Mark Slater (HCA)	'Big Tobacco and Blackness: Tobacco advertising and the exploitation of the Black consumer in postwar United States'
Wed 26 February	Alison Zilversmit (Divinity)	'Colonial Missionary Conceptions of Development: The British Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1953'
Wed 12 March	Joseph Majok (CAS)	'Understanding the History of Agrarian Transition in South Sudan'
Wed 26 March	Gemma McLean-Carr (HCA)	'Odourising the Chinese ‘other’: Smell and British Perceptions of China and ‘Chinatown,’ 1842-1946'
Wed 2 April	Huiying Xiao (HCA)	'Business, Also about Politics: Comprador Groups in Sino-United States Relation in 1872-1912' Attendees are also invited to an end-of-semester dinner after the workshop.

Semester 1 2024/25

Date	Speaker	Topic
Wed 25 September	N/A	Welcome Social @ Doctors Pub, 4pm
Wed 16 October	Prerana Nair (HCA)	'Traded Silks for the Gods in Kerala, South India between the 17th and 18th Centuries'
Wed 23 October	Jane Palomera Moore (HCA)	'The Other Empire’s “Other”: Anglophone Accounts of Visitations with the Ainu People, 1869-1921'
Wed 6 November	Jessica Turner (HCA)	'Economic Knowledge in Tanzania, 1967-1985'
Wed 20 November	Stephanie Wanga (LSE)	'The State and its Competitors in East Africa: A History'
Wed 4 December	Morris Chou (HCA)	'Debt and Nation: Visualizations of Nationhood during the Nanjing Decade, 1928-1938'

PREVIOUS YEARS' WORKSHOPS

Semester 2 2023/24

Date	Speaker	Topic
Wed 24 Jan	Ramón Valdivieso (University of Edinburgh)	'Indigenous reactions to postcolonial policies before and in the aftermath of the 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake and Tsunami'
Wed 7 Feb	Muhammad Suhail Bin Mohamed Yazid (University of Cambridge)	'Global decolonisation and the Malaysian initiative for a Muslim commonwealth, 1961–69'
Wed 13 Mar	Haiyun Liu (School of Advanced Study, University of London)	'From central kingdom to the moon's heart: Sino-Mexican relations and Chinese immigration to Mexico in the Porfiriato, 1876–1911'
Wed 27 Mar	Isobel Westbury (University of Edinburgh)	'Air service personnel of colour: RAF recruitment in Scotland and across the Empire, 1939–45'

Semester 1 2023/24

Date	Speaker	Topic
Wed 4 Oct	Francesco Moze (University of Edinburgh)	Workshop 1: Faire la navette: Religious Antagonism, Transfrontier Mobility and Power Struggles in Mboga, 1889-1911
Wed 18 Oct	Qingrou Zhao (University of Edinburgh)	Workshop 2: Counting in, Counting out: Practical and Ideological Considerations behind Nineteenth-Century Shanghai Settlement Census-Making
Wed 25 Oct	Urvi Khaitan (University of Oxford)	Workshop 3: A Tepid Cup of Tea: Labouring Families and Living Standards in Indian Plantations
Wed 1 Nov	Emma Flanagan (University of Edinburgh)	Workshop 4: ‘And they did not rest’: A Women’s History of Anticolonial Marches, Boycotts, and Communist Activity in Côte d’Ivoire, 1946-1958
Wed 8 Nov	Mehmet Akif Aydemir (Royal Holloway University of London)	Workshop 5: Britain-Ottoman Empire Relations: Scepticism and Hope, can they Exist Together? The Pathways from Reval to the 31 March Incident
Wed 22 Nov	On I Lam (University of Cambridge)	Workshop 6: The Inter-party Relationship between the Japanese Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party in the 1950s
Wed 29 Nov	Florian Wieser (University of Edinburgh)	Workshop 7: Violent Networks, Violent Ends: Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean Agency amidst the French-Spanish Conflict, 1635-1697

Further information

Further information about the workshop series, and the wider work of the Centre can be found on its website, hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-global-history

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This article was published on 2024-08-01