Edinburgh Centre for Global History seminars

The Centre hosts a seminar series which takes place throughout the academic year and is open to staff, students and the general public.

All ECGH events will take place at 4pm in the Chrystal Macmillan Building Seminar Room 1 (ground floor) unless otherwise stated. Everyone is welcome, please contact the convenor if you have any questions.

For more details and registration for the Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery see here.

Semester 2 2024/25

Date	Speaker	Topic	Venue
Wed 22 January, 16.00	Claire Eldridge (Leeds) Respondent: Emile Chabal (HCA)	'They tremble before him’: Exploring violence between soldiers in France’s ‘African Army’ during the First World War'	Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Wed 5 February, 16.00	Manuel Saavedra (Leibniz Universität Hannover) Respondent: Lisa Cowan (Law)	'Frontier Law: Land, Justice, and Territory on the Edges of the Pacific World (Chile, 1740–1830)' Co-badged with the Centre for Legal History	Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Wed 5 March, 16.00	Enda Delaney (HCA) Respondent: Patrick Griffin (Notre Dame)	'Out of Time: Ireland and Modernity', Reflections on global history in the writing of Making Ireland Modern: The Transformation of Society and Culture Co-badged with the Irish History Research Seminar	Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Wed 23 April, 17.15	Krisztina Ilko (Cambridge)	'Beyond the Lewis Chessmen: Chess and Race in the Global Middle Ages' Co-sponsored by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies & the Scottish History Seminar, and co-badged with the Games & History Lab	Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School Doorway 4

Semester 1 2024/25

Date	Speaker	Topic	Venue
Wed 18 September, 16.00	Meha Priyadarshini (HCA), Michelle Keown (LLC), Rosi Carr (HCA), Julia McClure (Glasgow), & Mahmood Kooria (HCA)	Opening Event: Lightning Talks	Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Wed 9 October, 16.00	Ayele Tariku Meshesha (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia)	'The Transformation of Justice in Late Medieval Ethiopia: The Wämbär System'	Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Thurs 17 October, 17.00	Benedetta Rossi (UCL)	'The Problem of African Slavery in the Age of Abolition', Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery	Screening Room, 50 George Sq
Mon 28 October, 17.15	Peter Hill (Northumbria)	'Disturbance of Thoughts: Doubt, Impiety, and Unbelief in the Arab-Ottoman World, 17th-19th Centuries' co-badged with IMES	Project Room 1.06, 40 George Sq
Wed 30 October, 16.00	Akram Salhab (QMUL), Donald Bloxham (HCA), & Julie Gibbings (HCA), chaired by Shaira Vadasaria (SPS)	'Genocide, Colonialism & Pedagogy: Lessons from Palestine', co-badged with the Decolonisation Working Group & CSMCH	Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Wed 13 November, 09.00	Nicola Frith (Decolonised Transformations, Edinburgh), Cressida Fforde (Australian National University), Malcom MacCallum (Anatomical Museum, Edinburgh), Marcia Langton (Melbourne), Zoe Laidlaw (Melbourne), Ross Jones (Melbourne), Rohan Long (Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, Melbourne)	'Truth Telling: Colonial and Racial Legacies of the Universities of Edinburgh and Melbourne', co-badged with REWG & IASH	Online Webinar
Wed 27 November, 16.00	Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene (National University of Mongolia)	'The Nomadic Conquest Theory & Its Implications for Human History: New Visions Past & Future'	Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Thurs 28 November, 17.00	David Cox (Southampton)	'Conjure and the Debate Over Slavery', co-badged with the American History Seminar	LG.10, 50 George Sq

Dr Sonia Tycko

Director, Edinburgh Centre for Global History

School of History, Classics and Archaelogy

Contact details

Email: sonia.tycko@ed.ac.uk

Address

40 George Square, Central Campus, George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9JX

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This article was published on 2024-08-01