The Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History runs a regular seminar series with invited speakers. Time and locationPlease check details below for individual events. Event scheduleSemester 2, 2024/25Thu 24 OctSpeaker: Dr Nicholas Grant (University of East Anglia)‘Apartheid in the air: South Africa, the United States and the White Brotherhood in the Jet Age’5-6:60pm, G04 Screening Room, 50 George SquareWed 30 Oct – PanelAkram Salhab (Queen Mary, University of London), Donald Bloxham (University of Edinburgh), Julie Gibbings (University of Edinburgh)‘Genocide, colonialism and pedagogy: Lessons from Palestine’4pm, Seminar room 1, Chrystal Macmillan BuildingCo-badged with ECGHDate tbc (mid-November) – RoundtableMarya Al-Hindi (Law, PhD researcher), Dr Nora Jaber (Law), Professor Donald Bloxham (HCA) and Dr Julie Gibbings (HCA)”, moderated by Kate Davison (HCA)‘Too soon? When is contemporary history?’5-7pm with drinks receptionThu 28 NovDr Umut Kuruüzüm (Istanbul Technical University & Vienna University)Title: ‘Trapped Under the Orient’s Night: Blind-Sourced Child Labour in the Turkish Tobacco Supply Chain’ Abstract: This paper examines how the network, cut by a contract, has historically underpinned the unfair exchange of Oriental tobacco, through a study of tobacco-producing households situated along the Aegean coast of Türkiye. Drawing on fieldwork carried out between June 2022 and August 2024, it argues that under a globally linked, corporate subcontracting scheme means that children are chronically blind-sourced into labour within their families, even at night. While sourcing continues, the long-established presence of children at the bottom of the supply chain remains concealed and unaddressed due to a lack of evidence and the shifting of responsibility to local subcontractors and families through corporate boundary redrawing.5-6:30pm, venue tbc; Co-badged with SPS/Social Anthropology Follow the School of History, Classics and ArchaeologyFind out about news and events in our community, or ask us a question online. Instagram Twitter YouTube Facebook Many of our research centres and groups, as well as subject areas and seminar series have their own social media spaces too. You can find out more at the link below.Follow us onlineFind out what else is onThe School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers an exciting programme of seminars across many subjects areas. Visit the research seminars website to find out what else is happening.Full programme of research seminars and events calendar This article was published on 2024-10-25
