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
Apr 25 2024 -

Joe's Odyssey

Joe Goodkin's 'Odyssey' is a 35-minute original musical composition for solo acoustic guitar and voice.

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Apr 18 2024 -

Overwhelmed: Spectacles and visuality in Early and Late Imperial Poetry

A conference organised by Beatrice Bersani, Clara Lazzoni, Aaron Pelttari, and Vicente Flores Militello.

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Apr 15 2024 -

Festival of Cultural Heritage Research - Opening Session

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology is delighted to participate in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences' Festival of Cultural Heritage Research.

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Apr 03 2024 -

Inaugural Lecture: Professor David Silkenat

The School is delighted to announce the inaugural lecture of Professor David Silkenat, Professor of History - “Two detectives against the Klan: Or, the American fight against white supremacy during reconstruction and after”.

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Mar 27 2024 -

Book event: Dr Christopher Harding - The Light of Asia

Join Dr Christopher Harding at Topping & Company Bookshop, Edinburgh, for a discussion of his latest work on Asian History, 'The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East'.

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Mar 14 2024 -

Class in Classics Report 2024 - Launch Event

This launch event will be a chance to share the Class in Classics Report 2024’s findings.

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Mar 07 2024 -

Alice Loxton: 'Uproar! Scandal, Satire and Printmakers in Georgian London'

Join HCA History alumna Alice Loxton as she discusses her vivid, pacey and endlessly engaging, new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it.

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Mar 07 2024 -

IWD 2024: Screening of the Trojan Women

Join Trojan Women Project Project Managers and participants for a screening of 'Trojans UK 22'.

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Feb 28 2024 -

LGBTQ+ History Month: Professor Laura Doan

The School's 2024 LGBTQ+ History Month event will be a lecture by Professor Laura Doan - 'Designs on nature: Reinventing the unnatural'.

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Feb 22 2024 -

Conference - 'Shifting paradigms: Women, rhetoric, and power, c. 700–c. 1300 CE'

This conference aims to recalibrate how we study women in western Europe, the Islamic worlds, and Byzantium across the Middle Ages, revealing the manifold ways women shaped and were shaped by overlapping discourses of power.

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Feb 14 2024 -

LGBTQ+ History Month - Film screening: 'Framing Agnes'

This award-winning documentary brings to life a series of discussions between trans clients and Dr Harold Garfinkel at UCLA in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Jan 29 2024 -

Book launch - 'States of Ignorance: Governing Irregular Migrants in Western Europe'

'States of Ignorance' explores an aspect of contemporary society that most states choose to keep obscure: the presence and governance of irregular migrants. Join us for the launch of this brand new book

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Dec 13 2023 -

Workshop: The afterlife of the Greco-Persian wars: From antiquity to modern times

This hybrid workshop will focus on the variety of narratives and representations of the Greco-Persian Wars and interrogate their social significance from the ancient world to the present day.

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Dec 12 2023 -

Workshop - Unofficial Diplomats: East Mediterranean Archaeologists and Britain’s Imperial Project

This workshop will explore the role archaeologists came to embrace as unofficial diplomats in the Near East, exploring the relationship between archaeologists and British colonialism between c. 1800 and 1947. Hybrid.

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Dec 08 2023 -

PROSOPON Workshop - ‘Entangled Prosopographies’

Edinburgh’s Centre for Late Antique, Islamic & Byzantine Studies, with generous funding support from the British Academy project ‘Prosopography of the Later Roman and Byzantine Worlds (PLRBW)’, is delighted to host the first PROSOPON workshop on 8 and 9 December, 2023.

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Dec 01 2023 -

Fennell Forum: 'Energy and history'

The Fennell Forum will discuss the history of energy transitions across economies, society, and culture and how we might read these histories in our own era of a changing climate. This event will be hybrid.

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Nov 27 2023 -

Screening of “The Trojan Women” by the Trojan Women Project

A screening of the theatrical interpretation of Euripides’ 'Trojan Women' by the Trojan Women Project. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with participants.

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Nov 23 2023 -

MSc in Ancient Worlds (online learning) information session

Join us for an information session introducing our MSc in Ancient Worlds (online learning).

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Nov 22 2023 -

Inaugural Lecturer: Professor Gayle Davis

The Inaugural Lecturer by Professor Gayle Davis will be on 'Science and subordination: Women’s reproductive health as a "biological straitjacket" in post-1880 Britain'.

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Nov 22 2023 -

MSc in History (online learning) information session

Join us for an information session introducing our MSc in History (online learning)

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