Postgraduate Virtual Open Week, 16-20 March, 2020

If you're considering postgraduate study in History, Classics or Archaeology you can join Graduate Officers and a current postgraduate student in interactive sessions to find out more.

As part of the University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Virtual Open Week you can find out about studying History, Classics and Archaeology whether through taught or research programmes. Each session comprises a presentation on the programmes and a live and interactive question and answer opportunity. There will be a specific session with the School of History, Classics and Archaeology's Senior Student Ambassador, who is a current postgraduate student within the School.

See below for the School's individual sessions and information on how to register for them.

Upcoming events

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Mar 18 2020 -

Research Programmes - Postgraduate Online Information Sessions

Join Postgraduate Recruitment & Engagement Officer Dr Meha Priyadarshini in a live and interactive online session about our PGR programmes.

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Mar 17 2020 -

History - Postgraduate Online Information Sessions

Our Postgraduate Online Information Sessions are an excellent way for you to learn more about your chosen programme and ask questions you may have about postgraduate study. Join Professor Diana Paton for this session on Postgraduate Taught programmes in History.

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Mar 16 2020 -

Student Q&A - Postgraduate Online Information Sessions

Find out what it's really like to be a postgraduate student with the School of History, Classics and Archaeology with Marina Lant.

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Mar 15 2020 -

Call for Papers: IberoArchUK 2020

The School will host the third edition of the IberoArchUK workshop in June 2020. Submissions are requested by 15 March.

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Mar 05 2020 -

Postponed - The Fennell Lecture 2020

Professor Monica H Green will deliver the 2020 Fennell Lecture on 5 March, 2020.

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Feb 19 2020 -

Information about the forthcoming industrial action

School of History, Classics and Archaeology students are invited to an information session around the forthcoming industrial action.

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Feb 14 2020 -

'Dividing the realm in order to govern: The Dili Yan’ge tradition and its uses in Tang and Song China'

A research meeting as part of the Paixue Project will take place on 14 February with Professor Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh).

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Feb 07 2020 -

Call for Papers: 'Child slavery in the Roman empire'. An international conference, 16-18 June

This conference brings together scholars working on slavery and childhood to explore the role and extent of child slavery in the Roman Empire.

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Feb 06 2020 -

Arbuthnott Lecture 2019-20 - 'The Border: The legacy of a century of Anglo-Irish politics'

The 2019-20 Arbuthnott Lecture will be delivered by Professor Diarmaid Ferriter MRIA (University College Dublin). This event was postponed from 28 November, 2019.

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Jan 31 2020 -

Call for Papers: '1940'. An International Conference on the Second World War

Second World Studies at Edinburgh will be hosting its first international conference in June 2020 to mark the eightieth anniversary of the second year of the conflict. It invites all scholars with an interest in the Second World War to submit an abstract which engages in some way with the events and/or memory of 1940.

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Jan 24 2020 -

Classics Book Sale

Book sale! Stock up now!

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Jan 21 2020 -

Exploring Macedonia - Student fieldtrip event

In August and September of 2019 students explored the multiple pasts of Macedonia on an 11-day fieldtrip through the sites of the historic region. Join them at this free event to find out their conclusions.

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Jan 15 2020 -

Call for Papers: 11th Biennial Fields of Conflict Conference

Submissions are invited for papers or posters on all aspects of conflict archaeology from all periods for the 11th Biennial Fields of Conflict Conference to be held in Edinburgh in September 2020.

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Dec 12 2019 -

'Classicising learning, performance, and power: Eurasian perspectives from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period'

The second in a series of three conferences aims to explore how public performances of classicising learning (however defined in each culture) influenced and served imperial or state power in premodern political systems across Eurasia and North Africa.

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Dec 09 2019 -

Conflict Archaeology Research Group Seminar

Introducing New Research on the Materialities of Conflict

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Dec 06 2019 -

Professor David Tandy: 'Slavery, honour and ideology in Homer'

Professor David Tandy (Leeds) explores the dynamics of slavery and honour in Homer, and how the realities of production in early Greece interlocked with ideas about honour and social interaction.

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Dec 05 2019 -

Powerful Stuff: Colonial Objects in a Decolonising World

This symposium, which marks the first anniversary of the founding of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History, brings together academics and museum professionals to think through issues surrounding calls for the return of colonial-era acquisitions in museums.

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Nov 29 2019 -

Winter Graduations

The winter graduations will take place on Friday 20 November.

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Nov 28 2019 -

Interpreting Hume through the Pyrrhonian and Academic Sceptical Traditions: A Thanksgiving Reading

A Thanksgiving lecture in celebration of Peter Fosl's newly published book with Edinburgh University Press, 'Hume's Scepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic'.

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Nov 25 2019 -

Professor Simon Heffer: 'Asquith, Lloyd George and the coup of 1916’

Professor Simon Heffer will give a lecture as part of the programme for the Political History Research Group on 'Asquith, Lloyd George and the coup of 1916’.

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