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…
English is today’s Globish. Today, English is the language that eases international trade, cross-border and cross-cultural communication. English is part and parcel of the most recent phase of globalisation and…
Welcome to our weekly ITSH Institute Mondays in the autumn semester AY2019-20. We will start our weekly sessions on 16 September 2019 with a Reading Group on Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes…
PhD Studentship in Social Anthropology & Modern History The deadline for applications is 5pm on 25 May 2019. The project “Esperanto 4.0: Millennials and the global Esperanto movement in historical and anthropological…
Welcome to our ITSH Institute Mondays AY2018-19, 3-5pm, Venue: Old Seminar Room, St John’s House Our main theme this academic year is “Space” and “Spatial History”. Texts will be pre-circulated for the sessions. Please…
Research Seminar Short-term and circular mobility from the Czech Lands to Latin America (1880s-1930s). A Case study in Entangled History Professor Markéta Křižová (Charles University Prague) Hosted by the Cross…
Welcome to the autumn term 2018. This year we will aim to make Mondays afternoons the time for a series of afternoon activities and occasional brown-bag lunches with our MLitt students. Everyone is very welcome to…
Research Seminar Paper Adam Dunn (University of St Andrews) From words to numbers and maps. Transfers, networks and the transformations of statistical thinking in Britain and the German lands, c. 1750s-1840s This talk…
On Monday 25 September 2017, we will be welcoming Dr Kerstin von Lingen (Heidelberg). Kerstin von Lingen will be giving a paper entitled “Legal Flows: Crimes against Humanity in Transnational Legal Thought, 1899-1945”.…
Should state-funded museums focus on the past of one nation, or should they open up their exhibitions to incorporate history of an entire region or even the whole world? Should borders of nation states converge with…