2013

Details of the School's research seminars have now been published for 2013/2014.

Unless otherwise specified, seminars take place 5-6.30pm on selected Wednesdays in seminar room G.13, William Robertson Wing, Medical School, Doorway 4, Teviot Place.

A new seminar series for 2013.

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology will hold an open day for potential postgraduate students, Friday 22 November 2013.

A series of occasional seminars will be held, usually in Room G.12, William Robertson Wing, at 5pm on Wednesdays, unless otherwise stated.

The School offers an American History Workshop series, Edinburgh-Virginia Videoseminars and an Early American Reading Group.

Archaeology seminars organised by postgraduate students provide an opportunity for discussion of current research developments on a range of archaeological themes from diverse chronological and geographical areas.

Intriguing events from history are being reassessed in a series of public talks at the University of Edinburgh.

Margaret Mountford - one of Lord Sugar’s original advisers in the BBC’s The Apprentice - is to offer students top tips on how to land their dream job, in one of many events being run this week by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, during Edinburgh University’s Innovative Learning Week.

The Classical Association of Scotland Annual Conference 2013 will be held in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, 21-22 June 2013.

The World of Caesarius of Arles: a short conference organised by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.

All seminars are on Thursdays at 6pm in Room G.13 William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School Quad, Teviot Place.

Emeritus Professor of History, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, will lecture on: 'The British-American Special Intelligence Relationship: Rise, Fall, and Scottish Dimensions', 20 November 2013.

Full 2013-14 programme - coming soon!

Tears and laughter, music and poetry… Professor Margaret Alexiou, our new Visiting A G Leventis Professor, looks set to reveal the richness of emotion in Greek music and literature.

We are pleased to announce the 2013 Crawford Lecture!

Autumn programme to be confirmed.

Philip Morgan, the Harry C. Black Professor, Johns Hopkins University and Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh, will deliver a public lecture on Caribbean slavery, 6pm Wednesday 9 October 2013.

Early Career Researchers in the HCA are hosting a one day FRESH meeting on 1 February 2013. The theme of the meeting is 'New Research and Making an Impact'.

School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Thursday-Saturday, 12-14 September 2013.

Staff and students will join an impressive array of scholars, authors, poets, politicians, musicians and journalists, 13-30 November 2013, to “tell history like you’ve never heard it before”.

A new, monthly seminar series intended to promote and enhance dialogue between scholars in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology who are interested in the Roman and Late Roman world.

The University is holding an online question and answer (Q&A) session for potential postgraduate students on Wednesday 29 May 2013.

Join us this Halloween for a dip into the history of the Scottish supernatural.

The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce that the 2013 Denys Hay Lecture will be given by Professor Henry Maguire, Johns Hopkins University, at 5.15pm, Thursday 2 May 2013.

Can the 7th century can be studied as a unit across regions or does the period represent a break between the ‘long 6th’ and ‘long 8th’ centuries?

Early Career Researchers in the HCA are hosting a one day FRESH meeting on 1 February 2013. The theme of the meeting is 'New Research and Making an Impact'.

Professor Walter Scheidel, Stanford University, will present a public lecture on 'Slavery and Forced Labour in Ancient China and the Ancient Mediterranean', 6pm, Monday 3 June 2013, Teviot Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Find out about the conference, key speakers, how to find us and how to register to attend.

A symposium entitled Infertility in History, Science and Culture is being held in the School, 3-5 July 2013.

Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5pm in Room G.13, William Robertson Wing, Medical School, Teviot Place.

Professor Tom Devine has been invited to present the Annual AB Emden Lecture at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford on the 10th of June, 2013.

Professor Ewen Cameron will discuss ‘The Political Histories of Modern Scotland’, 5.15pm Tuesday 7 May, in the Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business School, University of Edinburgh.

Frank Cogliano, Professor of American History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, will discuss the Anglo-American War of 1812 with Melvyn Bragg and guests at 9am, 31 January, on BBC Radio 4’s ‘In our time’ programme.

Couldn't attend ILW last year? Have a look at what you missed in previous years!

Innovative Learning Week finishes in fine style, 22-23 February, with trips to Stirling Castle and Hadrian’s Wall, film screenings, a meeting of Classics magazine contributors and, not least, an Archaeology Society pub quiz.

History has been taught at the University of Edinburgh since its foundation in 1583.

Can we talk about a ‘medieval’ period beyond Europe? What does ‘modernity’ look like in Asia? Was there ever an ‘early modern’ world?

Students who attended Dr Adam Budd’s Innovative Learning Week lectures today (19 February) were treated to a sneak preview of an exciting new MSc History course, which the University of Edinburgh will offer for the first time from September.

Pulitzer prize-winning author, A Scott Berg, will visit the School, 17 October 2013, to talk about his new biography of American President Woodrow Wilson.