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
Jun 10 2022 -

Book launch: 'Heritage and nationalism: Understanding populism through big data' by Dr Chiara Bonacchi

Join Dr Bonacchi, Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text and Data Mining and Senior Lecturer in Heritage, for this online launch, panel event and Q&A.

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Jun 10 2022 -

Honour in Classical Greece

An international conference as part of the Edinburgh ERC project on ancient Greek honour, led by Douglas Cairns and Mirko Canevaro. An international cast of experts will examine concepts, applications, and contestations of honour in classical Greek language, literature, history, and philosophy.

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May 23 2022 -

Cfp - 'Working from Home: Labour and worship in the domestic sphere' (deadline extended)

The Eighth Annual Conference of the Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society at the University of Edinburgh. Deadline 23 May, 2022.

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May 17 2022 -

History PhD Conference 2022

A wide ranging and fascinating series of topics, historical issues and presentations from first year History PhD students within the School. All are welcome to attend in person or online.

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May 12 2022 -

Fennell Lecture 2022 - Professor Marlene Daut

The 2022 Fennell Lecture will be delivered by Professor Marlene Daut on ‘The Kingdom of Haiti and the Age of Revolutions'.

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May 09 2022 -

PAIXUE workshop

The PAIXUE workshop 'Classical antiquity in Byzantium and Middle Period China: Revivals and reinventions in visual and intellectual culture' will take place 9-11 May, 2022.

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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 -

Into the Empire: New Approaches to the Late Iron Age to Early Roman Transition

An online workshop organised by Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz.

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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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