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 2025/26

DateSpeakerTopicVenue
Wed 17 September, 16.00Joseph La Hausse de Lalouvière (HCA), Abigail McBain (LLC), Hana Sleiman (HCA), Julie Gibbings (HCA), & David Wilson (Strathclyde)Opening Event: Lightning TalksLG.09, 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub
Wed 1 October, 16.00Teren Sevea (Harvard)TBALG.11, 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub
Fri 3 October, 13.00Raquel Wilson (Kentucky)'The Historical Antecedents to Contemporary Crime and Punishment in Grenada'2.04, Edinburgh Futures Institute
Wed 15 Oct, 14:10

Prof Christopher Brown (Columbia), Dr Joseph La Hausse de Lalouvière (HCA), Prof Diana Paton (HCA), and Prof Richard Whatmore (St Andrews)

Chaired by Dr Sonia Tycko (HCA)

Roundtable: “Writing the History of Abolition in the Age of Revolutions: Reflections on Moral Capital at 20”LG.09, 40 George Sq
Wed 15 October, 17.15Christopher Brown (Columbia)'The Atlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolution', Annual Lecture in the History of SlaveryMacLaren Stuart Room, Old College (G.159)
Wed 29 October, 16.00Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene (National University of Mongolia)'Sinocentrism, the Nomadic Conquest Theory & the Implications for Human History: New Visions Past & Future'LG.11, 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub
Wed 19 November, 16.00Moin Nizami (Oxford)TBALG.11, 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub
Wed 26 November, 16.00Maria Grazia Imperiale (Glasgow)Nicola Perugini (SPS)'Genocide, Academic Solidarity & the Edinburgh Race Review: Learning from LINEs4Palestine'LG.11, 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub

Dr Sonia Tycko

Director, Edinburgh Centre for Global History

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