American History seminars

The School offers an American History seminar and workshop series, as well as round table events and a reading group.

All sessions begin at 5pm in Room 2.36, Doorway 4, Old Medical School and on Zoom unless otherwise indicated)

Please contact Dr Megan Hunt (megan.hunt@ed.ac.uk) to join the mailing list, and receive all pre-circulated papers.

DateSpeakerTitleNotes
Thu 26 SepMichelle Carmody, KU Leuven (Belgium)'“Too much impartiality robs human rights of an essential quality”: Amnesty International USA’s drive to recruit a diverse membership, 1980-1995' 
Thu 10 OctLewis Johnson, University of Edinburgh'"Ours Is the Mandate": Republicans, the South, and the Eightieth Congress, 1947-1948' 
Thu 17 OctEmily Brady, University of Oxford'“She and my father started a mission”: Portraiture in African American ‘Mom-and-Pop’ photography studios in the Long Civil Rights Movement' 
Thu 24 OctNick Grant, University of East Anglia (co-badged with the Edinburgh Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History)'Apartheid in the air: South Africa, the United States and the White Brotherhood in the Jet Age'G04, Screening Room, 50 George Square
Thu 14 NovBrooks Marmon, University of Pretoria (South Africa)"'Repeating the American Revolution on the Continent of Africa": Barry Goldwater's Rhodesian Solidarity Visit, 1967"Online only
Thu 28 NovDavid Cox, University of Southampton (with the Edinburgh Centre for Global History)'Perceptions of black magic in 19th-century America: Conjure and the debate over slavery'40 George Square, LG.10

Other seminars within the School

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers an exciting programme of seminars across many subjects areas. Visit the research seminars website to find out what else is happening.

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