Space (2018-9)

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A number of recent historiographical trends have pushed the idea of 'space' to the forefront of historical research. Growing interest in environmental and global histories have encouraged scholars to reflect on whether space is a geographical, political, cultural or social construct. This has led to a range of exciting and innovative scholarship that tries to mix different approaches and disciplines. We aimed to showcase some of this work over the course of the academic year.

We are very flexible about our definition of space, but we addressed some of the following themes:

• Territories, geographies and the mapping of physical space
• Borders, frontiers and borderlands
• National spaces and national sovereignty
• Migration and immigration
• Urban history and the representation of urban spaces
• Political and ideological spaces, and the movement of ideas
• Imperial, post-imperial and cosmopolitan spaces 
• Photography and the visual arts
• Astronomy and outer space

Events and Activities

You can read about the Centre's events and activities this year in the following blog posts:

Corey Robin on the history of conservatism (28 September 2018)

Corey Robin workshop and discussion group (3 October 2018)

Emily Brownell on urban spaces and building materials in postcolonial Tanzania (12 October 2018)

Davina Cooper on the conceptual space of gender (28 October 2018)

Vanessa Ogle on the history of offshore capitalism (8 November 2018)

Michael Goebel on urban ethnic segregation in the age of steam (22 November 2018)

Discussion group and solidarity event on Bolsonaro’s Brazil (28 November 2018)

Rebecca Madgin on Glasgow’s urban heritage (30 November 2018)

Conference on memory and memorialisation in China (11 January 2019)

Alex Paulin-Booth on the utopias of the French left (17 January 2019)

Erika Hanna on the multiple histories of an Irish field (3 February 2019)

Akhila Yechury on borders and colonial sovereignty in French India (28 February 2019)

Ben Smith on the US-Mexico borderlands and the ‘war on drugs’ (8 March 2019)

Stefanie Gänger on medicine and sociality in the Atlantic world (21 March 2019)

Alexander Geppert on the post-war production of outer space (29 March 2019)

Olivier Estèves on the desegregation of English schools (8 April 2019)

‘Mad to be Normal’ film screening (24 April 2019)

Ljubica Spaskovska on 20th century socialist and non-aligned internationalism (20 May 2019)

Claudia Stern on class and urban space in Chile, c.1970-c.1990 (2 June 2019)

Workshop and film screening on transnational solidarities (7 June 2019)