When did time become global?
On Monday, 16 November the Institute for Transnational & Spatial History will be hosting Professor Sebastian Conrad from the Free University of Berlin. As part of our Modern History Seminar Series, Professor Conrad…
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Dividing the World? – 4th GRAINES Summer School
The winter ahead – the next summer (school) in mind. We are pleased to announce the theme of our 4th GRAINES summer school: Dividing the World? Imperial Formations in Continental and Maritime Empires from the…
Global History Lecture – Welcome Emma Hunter
Dr Emma Hunter (Edinburgh) will be giving a research seminar paper on “Concepts of Democracy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Africa: Re-Imagining Political Accountability from the Bottom Up”. Emma Hunter is a lecturer in…
Conference Videos Online – Between Federalism, Autonomy and Centralism
Videos of the 29 May, 2015 conference "Between Federalism, Autonomy and Centralism: Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries" is now available for viewing.
Key Note Lecture “The Global 1989 – networks of neoliberalism”
As part of the 3rd Graines Summer School under the title INTERCONNECTED Professor Philipp Ther will be giving a key note lecture on “The global 1989 – networks of neoliberalism”. Time & Venue: Monday, 8 June 2015,…
Hunting Whales, Maritime Knowledge and the Transformation of Dundee
Welcome to our new PhD student: Matt Ylitalo. Matt came to St Andrews in 2013 to do an MLitt in Reformation History. Over the year he developed interests in the question of what constitutes knowledge and facts, leading…
CFP now open for our summer school INTERCONNECTED
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SUMMER SCHOOL "INTERCONNECTED", DEADLINE 9 MARCH 2015
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…
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…
In Practice: Kelsey Jackson Williams
The following is the first in a series of postings in which our institute members ask themselves “What does transnational and global history mean for my own research?”. Our first posting is by Kelsey Jackson Williams,…