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 1 2026/27

DateSpeakerTopicVenue
Wed 23 September, 16:00Betty Banks, Huw Halsted, Marie LeGendre and Sarah NaramoreOpening Event: Lightning TalksChrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 1
Thursday, 15 October, 15:00Nana Osei-Opare (Rice University)“Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana’s Cold War”Chrystal Macmillan Building, Violet Laidlaw Room
Thursday, 5 November, 17:00Nino Luraghi (Oxford)

Annual Lecture on the History of Slavery

“Silencing the Past: From Haiti to the Peloponnese”

G.159, MacLaren Stuart Room, Old College
Friday, 6 November, 11:00Nino Luraghi (Oxford), Mirko Canevaro (HCA), Matthew Hewitt (HCA), and Christian Whyte (Glasgow).Roundtable:
“Studying Ancient Slavery: Sources and Methods”		Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 1
Wednesday, 18 November, 16:10Sonia Tycko (HCA), Chloë Kennedy (Law) and Adam Fox (HCA)Book Launch: "Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700"Raeburn Room, Old College
Wednesday, 25 November, 16:00Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort University)“Mobility, Portability, Recycling: Genizah Documents from a Metals Workshop in 12th-Century Malabar”G. 06, Doorway 6, Old Medical School

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