Global History Cluster Research Programme 2023/24

Revisiting Colonialism and Empire

Autumn Semester 2023

Monday 9 October 2023
Lightning Talks in Global History, St Andrews, in person and online, for signup ask Sarah Easterby Smith at ses22@st-andrews.ac.uk or global history convenor

Friday 20 October 2023
12-1pm, co-hosted with Gramnet, Anne Irfan and Ria Kapoor in conversation about their new books, Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System and Making Refugees in India, University of Glasgow Main Building, Gilbert Scott: Room 356. Find out more and book tickets 

Tuesday 24 October 2023
5:30pm
Thyssen Lecture 2023, Professor Fred Cooper, ´Understanding Power Relations in a Colonial Context: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, In-Between
All details 

Wednesday 25 October 2023
10am-1pm
'Fred Cooper postgraduate masterclass on global solidarities'
All details

Wednesday 1 November 2023
4.00-5.00
Richard Warren, University of Bern, "From Fire to Famine? The climate and human impacts of the 1831 and 1835 volcanic eruptions in India".
In the McKechnie Room, 10 University Gardens

Thursday 16 November 2023
12.00-13.00
Annie Pohlmam, University of Queensland, Visiting Leverhulme scholar, ´Mapping a history of torture under Indonesia’s “New Order” military regime: Methods, challenges and some initial findings´
in the Main Building 251

Thursday 16 November 2023
11-12:30
Sabine Pitteloud, University of Geneva, 'Organized Business & Environmental Governance in Postwar Switzerland and Germany', co-organised with Economic and Social History
in Adam Smith 712.

Wednesday 22 November 2023
4.00-5.00 global history reading group session, suggested title: Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson, Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 2023).
Location: convenors office, Room 401, 10 University Gardens

Wednesday 29 November 2023 - POSTPONED (date tbc)
4.00-5.00 Ricardo Aguilar González, University of Warwick, ‘Sustenance: foods, drinks and bodies in the colonisation of Mesoamerica, 1350-1600’.

For any enquiries related to the Global History Research Cluster please email Julia.mcclure@glasgow.ac.uk 


First published: 29 September 2023