Fall 2020 Events
Our institute monday event linup includes skills sessions, reading groups, manuscript workshops, project team reports, research lectures, and a research workshop.
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Institute Mondays During the Corona Virus Outbreak
Due to the cancellation of all face-to-face meetings at the University of St Andrews in the wake of the Corona Virus outbreak, we will cancelling some events and moving others online. Please check in on the events page…
Fife Coastal Walk 2017
Transnational and Spatial History Masters students at St Andrews spend a day along the southern Fife coast.
Reflections: Space and Place in the work of Yi-Fu Tuan
This posting is the first of three offering a reading of the work of the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan from a historian’s perspective. I hope to follow it with a series of similar postings on other scholars that may offer us…
Reflections: Beyond Thriller in Spatial History
The ‘spatial turn’ has come to history in waves, and since the term carries multiple meanings, it has sent historians off in a number of directions with a new, or renewed appreciation for space. With some exceptions,…
Student Reflections: Skills in Transnational History Module
This guest posting is by Katherine Bellamy, who completed the MLitt in Transnational, Global and Spatial History in 2016 with the dissertation “Ninnimissinouk Networks: The Endurance of Identity in a Transnational…
Student Reflections: Antonino Scalia
Antonino Scalia, who joined us from Sicily, completed the MLitt in Transnational, Global and Spatial History in 2016. His coursework included a study of the impact and reception of the Greek Colonels coup in Italian…
Workshop Report: Nation, Culture and Civilisation: Talking about and beyond ‘the West’ (1860-1940)
Building on the recently published volume “Germany and ‘the West’: The History of a Modern Concept” (2015), this workshop sought to explore the transnational discourse on ‘the West’ from the mid-nineteenth to the…
Workshop: Spatial History and Its Sources
On 2 September, the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History will hold a workshop on “Spatial History and Its Sources.” You can find out more about the workshop and its schedule here. The workshop will bring…
ITSH Podcast #1: Roundtable Discussion on the “Refugee Crisis”
On 29th June, 2016, a few colleagues of the ITSH gathered for a roundtable discussion on the “Refugee Crisis” and explored some questions and problems related to recent coverage of the issue in Europe from our…