Events

ITSH Events – Spring 2026

All events, unless noted otherwise, will be scheduled: Mondays 3:30-5pm UK time, delivered in person in St Katharine’s Lodge (Room 0.01) and on the ITSH Microsoft Team. If you are not already on our ITSH mailing list and wish to be added please get in touch with Olivier Feis ([email protected]). If you would like to join an individual event and you are not affiliated with the University of St Andrews, please use our registration form.

• Week 1 – 26 Jan – Kate Ferris, Sarah Easterby-Smith, Cian Cooney, Akhila Yechury, Diana Lemberg – STAFF FLASH TALKS: How does your work relate to transnational/global/spatial history? – Chair: Bernhard Struck.
• Week 3 – 9 Feb – Eliga Gould – Land, Property, and People:  United States Independence and the Three Partitions of 1783 –Chair: Andrew Edwards
• Week 5 – 23 Feb – Huw Halstead – An Afternoon at the Barber Shop: Space, Oral Testimony, and “Ethnokafenology” – Chair: Kate Ferris.
• Week 6 – 9 Mar – Ángeles Picone– Landscaping Patagonia : Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina (Book launch seminar) – Chair: Bernhard Struck
• Week 8 – 23 Mar (4-5.30pm) – Carl Smith – Place drawing workshop: Spatial Imaginaries and Humanizing the Places of Enquiry – Chair: Kate Ferris. (St Katharine’s Lodge Room 1.10)
• Week 11 – 13 Apr – Lucian George – The shadow of land reforms and their failures: debating the land question in interwar East-Central Europe –Chair: Riccardo Bavaj.
• Week 11 – 17 Apr (From 3pm) – Walking tour of St Andrews (TBC) 
• Week 12 – 20 April – Erica Charters – Title TBC –Joint seminar with Centre for French History and Culture and St Andrews Medical Humanities Network –Chair: Guy Rowlands. 

Past Events

For a list of past events hosted by the institute, please see our past events page.