In Practice: Bernhard Struck
What is transnational history (to me)? The Q Factor OR Transnational History as a Hearing Aid The following post is part of a series of postings in which our institute members ask themselves “What does transnational…
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People on the Move I: Sending PhDs @tshts
Doing the Alps in the Alps Part of the joy of being a PhD student is to be on the move, isn’t it? To see different places, to experience archives, to be stimulated by different institutional and intellectual…
Mapping and Visualising Transnational (Hi)Stories
Where is transnational history? What spaces are produced by transnational flows and cross-border connections? Can computer tools and Digital Humanities help us to achieve an Atlas of Transnational History? How to we…
New Strand on Transnational and Global History
This year’s annual conference of the Social History Society, held at Newcastle University 8-10 April 2014, opened with a number of new strands, one of which in Transnational and Global History. The new strand was…
Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH): “Globalization and Health: East and West”
The programme of of this year’s Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) on “Globalization and Health” is now available under http://www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/futh.php. As part of the programme, Scott…
Between Tokyo, Menton and St Andrews
Welcome to Professor Akiyoshi Nishiyama The Centre for Transnational History and the School of History welcome Dr Akiyoshi Nishiyama from Kyoritsu Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan. Professor Nishiyama will be spending…
Away Days in the Highlands
The location was carefully selected: Morenish House, near Killin right on the northern shore of Loch Tay. A nineteenth-century laird’s house, very Scottish and surrounded by snow-covered Highland peaks and stunning…
Between Habsburg and St Andrews
One of the key ideas behind GRAINES (Graduate Interdisciplinary Network in European Studies) is that it allows us to put European and transnational history into practice with a flexible and informal way of exchanges of…
Welcome to Michael Talbot
Michael Talbot has joined the School of History on a temporary lectureship at the start of the academic year 2013-14. Michael’s research is broadly related to the Ottoman Empire from the early modern period and, more…
Mapping Transnational (Hi)Stories
Mapping and Visualising Transnational Flows and Connections A number of our individual research projects share an interest in space and spatial history. Defining transnational history as a way of seeing and a…