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.

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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.

 

Event listing

Event date
May 07 2022 -

11th Biennial Fields of Conflict Conference

We are inviting all those interested in the study of past conflict to join us for the 11th Biennial Fields of Conflict Conference, which will be hosted by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in May 2022.

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May 06 2022 -

Global Histories of Slavery - A Workshop with Indrani Chatterjee

Edinburgh Centre for Global History invite proposals for a workshop with Professor Indrani Chatterjee on global histories of slavery

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May 04 2022 -

Entangled Hierarchies: Of Varna-Jati, Casta and Slaves in historic South Asia - 2022 Lecture in the History of Slavery

The 2022 Lecture in the History of Slavery was delivered by Professor Indrani Chatterjee (University of Texas) on 'Entangled Hierarchies: Of Varna-Jati, Casta and Slaves in historic South Asia'

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May 03 2022 -

Launch event: Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies

The new cross-College Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (CLAIBS) promotes the University of Edinburgh’s expertise in and synergies across the three constituent disciplines

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Apr 26 2022 -

Round Table: The British Empire and the Second World War

The Second World War through the lens of the British Empire.

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Apr 13 2022 -

Dr Sarah Goldsmith: Re-Embodying the Absent Historical Body: Henry Poole & Co’s Measuring Books, c.1840-1950

Join Dr Sarah Goldsmith, Chancellor’s Fellow - The history of masculinity, gender and the body, for this seminar with Food Researchers in Edinburgh.

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Apr 12 2022 -
Apr 06 2022 -

Buy Black: A Conversation on Black Feminism and Popular Culture

Dr Rochelle Rowe (Lecturer in Black British History) will be taking part in this webinar on 6 April, 2022.

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Apr 06 2022 -

Dr Donncha O'Rourke: W.B. Stanford Memorial Lecture series

Dr Donncha O'Rourke, Senior Lecturer in Classics, will deliver the 2022 W.B. Stanford Memorial Lecture series at Trinity College Dublin.

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Apr 04 2022 -

Leverhulme Trust lecture, 'An Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1912-49'

The 2022 Leverhulme Trust lecture was delivered by Professor Robert Gerwarth (UCD) on 'An Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1912-49'.

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Mar 31 2022 -

PAIXUE - Dr Mara Nicosia

Join Dr Mara Nicosia (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ghent University) for this online event, 'The Hellenistic Enkyklios Paideia (‘Circular Education’) in the Syriac World: The Role of Rhetoric in Shaping the ‘Classic’'.

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Mar 18 2022 -

PAIXUE - Professor Derek Krueger

Join Professor Derek Krueger (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) for this online event, 'Symeon the New Theologian’s ecstatic experience and the monastic culture of reference in Byzantium'.

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Mar 10 2022 -

HCA Staff and Student Pub Quiz

Join us for a student staff social event where we'll pit subject area against subject area.

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Mar 08 2022 -

International Women’s Day 2022 - 'Dying to Divorce'

To mark International Women's Day 2022 the School of History, Classics and Archaeology will host a screening of 'Dying to Divorce'.

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Mar 03 2022 -

A Sculptor and the Iconoclasts - A lecture by Professor Alexander Stoddart

Join us at the University of Edinburgh on Thursday 3rd March to hear from Professor Alexander Stoddart.

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Mar 03 2022 -

Russia-Ukraine panel

Please join us for a panel discussion on the present crisis between Russia and Ukraine.

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Feb 17 2022 -

SWW Network (Scotland) Postgraduate Research Virtual Coffee Mornings

The Second World War Studies Network (Scotland) will host a series of virtual coffee mornings, and invite postgraduate researchers in the field of Second World War studies to join us for monthly informal hours of conversation and connection.

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Feb 09 2022 -

LGBT History Month: 'From the 1969 Stonewall Riots to Lesbian & Gays Support the Miners Group'

To mark LGBT History Month the School will host speakers Professor Marc Stein and Nicola Field on 'From the 1969 Stonewall Riots to Lesbian & Gays Support the Miners Group: A history of revolt, defiance and solidarity'.

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Feb 05 2022 -

Call for Papers: HOTCUS 2022 Annual Conference

Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) is delighted to invite paper and panel proposals for its 2022 annual conference to be held at the University of Edinburgh. Deadline midnight, UK time, on February 5, 2022.

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Jan 28 2022 -

POSTPONED - The McFarlane Global Scotland Conference: 'Scottish Historians and Transatlantic Slavery'

Please note that this event has been postponed. All ticket holders have been emailed.

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