Events Archive

Selected highlights from recent ECGH events.

Global history in Scotland: Strategies for research and collaboration

10 May 2023 16:00 - 19:00

This national event will discuss how we might promote collaborations amongst scholars working on global history topics in Scottish universities.


Entangled Hierarchies: Of Varna-Jati, Casta and Slaves in historic South Asia - 2022 Lecture in the History of Slavery

4 May 2022 16:00 - 18:00

The 2022 Lecture in the History of Slavery was delivered by Professor Indrani Chatterjee (University of Texas) on 'Entangled Hierarchies: Of Varna-Jati, Casta and Slaves in historic South Asia'


Virtual Workshop ‘Rethinking the Politics and Practices of Print in Comparative Colonial Perspective’

8 January 2021 08:30 - 9 January 2021 12:30

A virtual workshop at the Edinburgh Centre for Global History, University of Edinburgh.


Historians on Dundas and Slavery

7 July 2020 17:30 - 19:30

Amid calls calls for the removal of Henry Dundas's statue, historians with specialist knowledge of his career come together to discuss and analyse all aspects of his relationship to slavery.


Powerful Stuff: Colonial Objects in a Decolonising World

5 December 2019 13:00 - 18:30

This symposium, which marks the first anniversary of the founding of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History, brings together academics and museum professionals to think through issues surrounding calls for the return of colonial-era acquisitions in museums.


'Material technologies of empire: tobacco, textiles and race in everyday Scottish life': Professor Beverly Lemire

26 April 2019 17:30 - 19:00

As part of the research project The Matter of Slavery in Scotland, Professor Beverly Lemire gave the lecture 'Material technologies of empire: tobacco, textiles and race in everyday Scottish life' on 26 April, 2019.


'Reckoning with slavery: kinship and capitalism in the early Black Atlantic': A public lecture by Professor Jennifer Morgan

25 April 2019 17:30 - 19:00

Professor Jennifer Morgan will deliver the 2019 Lecture in the History of Slavery for the Edinburgh Centre for Global History, 'Reckoning with slavery: kinship and capitalism in the early Black Atlantic' on 25 April, 2019.


Slavery, gender, capitalism in the early modern world: A workshop with Jennifer Morgan

25 April 2019 09:30 - 13:00

A workshop with Professor Jennifer Morgan on the intertwined themes of slavery, gender and capitalism in the early modern world, will take place on 25 April, 2019.


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