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

Event date
Nov 19 2020 -

Catastrophes and Memory (500-1500 CE): 4th Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Byzantine Conference

The conference focuses on disasters (natural, man-made or “supernatural”) that shape historical memory and our understanding of the past, concentrating on the problematic relations between catastrophes and memory in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine societies.

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Nov 16 2020 -

Discoveries and secrets: Egyptian archaeology

Join Dr Joanne Rowland and staff from the National Museum of Scotland as they discuss Scottish contributions to archaeology. Part of Being Human Festival.

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Nov 13 2020 -

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day - Ancient Worlds(Online)

If you are considering postgraduate study in Archaeology and Classics online, join our live and interactive online session for more information.

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Nov 12 2020 -

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day - Introduction to PhD and MScR programmes

If you are considering research postgraduate study in History, Classics or Archaeology join our live and interactive online session for more information.

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Nov 11 2020 -

POSTPONED - Inaugural Lecture - Professor Julian Goodare

Professor Julian Goodare's Inaugural Lecture will be given on 11 November, 2020.

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Nov 11 2020 -

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day - History (Taught)

If you are considering postgraduate study in History, join our live and interactive online session for more information.

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Nov 10 2020 -

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day - Classics (Taught)

If you are considering postgraduate study in Classics, join our live and interactive online session for more information.

Further information
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Nov 10 2020 -

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day - History (Online)

If you are considering postgraduate study in History online, join our live and interactive online session for more information.

Further information
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Nov 09 2020 -

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day - Archaeology (Taught)

If you are considering postgraduate study in Archaeology, join our live and interactive online session for more information.

Further information
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Oct 20 2020 -

Black History Month - John Siblon

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology will host John Siblon speaking on ‘"Disposable lives; ungrievable deaths": The commemoration of African colonial troops after the First World War' as part of Black History Month.

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Oct 19 2020 -

CFP - Scottish Local Democracy: Historical and Current

The University of Edinburgh Political History Group are organising a multidisciplinary and cross-institutional conference on the historical development, current state and future prospects of local democracy in Scotland.

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Sep 29 2020 -

The Concept of Crisis

The inaugural event for the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh's seminar series.

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Sep 25 2020 -

Pirates of the Digital Caribbean

The inaugural talk of the History and Games Lab Seminar.

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Sep 23 2020 -

CANCELLED: Inaugural Lecture - Professor Diana Paton

‘Slavery, family, and William Robertson’s Edinburgh’ - Professor Diana Paton's Inaugural Lecture as William Robertson Professor of History will be given on 23 September, 2020.

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Jul 16 2020 -

Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society sixth annual conference

The Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society (LAMPS)6th annual conference will take place online on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th July.

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Jul 07 2020 -

Historians on Dundas and Slavery

Amid calls calls for the removal of Henry Dundas's statue, historians with specialist knowledge of his career come together to discuss and analyse all aspects of his relationship to slavery.

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Jun 16 2020 -

POSTPONED - '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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Jun 04 2020 -

CANCELLED - '1940'. An International Conference on the Second World War

Second World Studies welcomes delegates to its first international conference, marking the eightieth anniversary of the second year of the conflict.

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May 29 2020 -

CANCELLED - Conference: 'The Janus dilemma'

This conference will explore how economic, social, political and cultural crises sparked changes in the temporality between the past and the future.

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May 20 2020 -

CANCELLED - Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar

The annual UK Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar will take place at the University of Edinburgh on 20 May 2020.

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