Events

Upcoming events

ITSH Institute Mondays AY2019-20, 1-3pm, Venue: Old Seminar Room, St John’s House, 71 South Street

Texts will be pre-circulated for the sessions. Please email Konrad Lawson (kml8@st-andrews.ac.uk).

16 September Reading Group – Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. Columbia University Press, 1983. Opens with comments from Konrad Lawson

23 September Mapping for Historians – Skills workshop “Introduction to QGIS for Historians” Registration required: https://bit.ly/2yKsOnQ

30 September Reading Group – Moyn, Samuel, and Andrew Sartori. Global Intellectual History. Columbia University Press, 2013. Opens with comments from Milinda Banerjee

7 October – No meeting

Manuscript Workshop – “Introduction” to Doing Spatial History with Riccardo Bavaj, Bernhard Struck, and Konrad Lawson

14 October Mapping for Historians – Skills workshop “Georeferencing and Digitizing Historical Maps” Registration required: https://bit.ly/2yKsOnQ

28 October Manuscript Workshop – “Introduction” to Doing Spatial History with Riccardo Bavaj, Bernhard Struck, and Konrad Lawson

4 November Visiting Speaker Brown Bag Lunch – Visiting speaker Adam Bronson (Durham) will lead an open discussion with students and staff on research around concepts in motion or in translation.

11 November Manuscript Workshop – We will discuss work shared by our PhD student Per Rolandsson.

18 November Late Modern History Seminar – Our slot and location will be used by the seminar series: Christa Wirth (Agder) – A Chicago Anthropologist at the Nexus of the Cold War and Decolonisation in the Philippines

25 November Manuscript Workshop – Sarah Frank will be sharing selected chapters from her book manuscript.

2 December Visiting Speaker Brown Bag Lunch – Visiting speaker Jennifer Altehenger (Oxford) will join us for a discussion with staff and students about her research.

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”.

GIS workshop

Texts will be pre-circulated for the sessions. Please email Konrad Lawson (kml8@st-andrews.ac.uk).

12 November 2018, Manuscript Workshop, Bernhard Struck, Did Prussia have an Atlantic History? The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania, the French Colonisation of Guyana, and Climates in the Caribbean, c.1760s-1780s
11 February 2019, Reading Group – Chalana, Manish (ed), Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia, Hong Kong University Press, 2017 (comments by Vahishtai D. Ghosh)
18 February 2019, Reading Group – Stock, Paul (ed), The Uses of Space in Early Modern History, New York 2015 (comments by Jessica Rees)
25 February 2019, Skills Workshop – Introduction to QGIS (open to all Staff and PGs) (Konrad Lawson)
4 March 2019, Skills Workshop – Introduction to Regular Expressions (open to all Staff and PGs) (Konrad Lawson)
GIS workshop
11 March 2019, Manuscript Workshop – Antonio Scalia, The reinvention of left-wing internationalism in Italy: transnational activists, cultural practices, political violence and gender (1960-1987)
1 April 2019, Manuscript Workshop – Rosalind Parr, Citizens of Everywhere. Indian Nationalist Women and the Global Public Sphere, 1920s-1950s
15 April 2019, MLitt Dissertation Prospectus Workshop
29 April 2019, Manuscript Workshop – Riccardo Bavaj, Konrad Lawson, Bernhard Struck, Doing Spatial History (Introduction)

Past events

Thursday, 25 April 2019,5.15pm, Research Seminar, Venue: New Arts Lecture Theatre, Markéta Křižová (Charles University Prague), Short-term and circular mobility from the Czech Lands to Latin America (1880s-1930s). A Case study in Entangled History
Monday, 15 October 2018,13:15-3pm, ITSH Reading Group – Old Class Library, South Street, Text: Su Lin Lewis Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940 (Konrad Lawson presenting)
Monday, 29 October 2018, 13:15-3pm, ITSH Manuscript Workshop – Old Class Library, South Street (Calum Daly presenting & submitting chapter)
Monday, 12 November 2018, 13:15-3pm, ITSH Manuscript Workshop – Old Class Library, South Street (Bernhard Struck presenting & submitting chapter)
Monday, 19 November 2018, 13:15-3pm, ITSH Reading Group – Old Class Library, South Street, Text: A. K. Sandoval-Strausz and Nancy H. Kwak eds. Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History (Emma Hart presenting)
25 September 2017, Dr Kerstin von Lingen (Heidelberg), Legal Flows: Crimes against Humanity in Transnational Legal Thought, 1899-1945
August 2017, Editing Workshop “Spatial History and its Sources”
September 2017, GRAINES summer school, held at University of Basel
3 April 2017, Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith (St Andrews), Gathering green gold: Botany and the French Empire in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean
20 February 2017, Professor Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Modernity in Common: Japan and World History
30 January 2017, Professor Yang-Wen Zheng (University of Manchester), Wind of the West Ocean: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China
2 December 2016: Peter H. Hansen (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Commercialization and Mount Everest, co-organised with the Institute for Environmental History
1-2 December 2016: Working with Space, joint workshop with the EUI, Florence
27 October 2016: Donald Sassoon (Queen Mary University of London), Civilization and the unleashing of anxieties: Europe and Asia
2 September 2016: Spatial History and its Sources (workshop)
14-17 June 2016: 4th GRAINES Summer School (University of Cologne) Dividing the World? Imperial Formations in Continental and Maritime Empires from the 17th to the 21st century
3 June 2016 & 7-8 December 2015: Nation, Culture and Civilisation: Talking about and beyond ‘the West’ (1860-1940), a two-part conference tracing the discourse on ‘the West’ across Europe, the US, Asia, and the Middle East, in cooperation with the Institute of Contemporary History Munich
16 November 2015: Professor Sebastian Conrad (Free University Berlin), The Revolution of Time in the Nineteenth Century: Global Perspectives (Lecture as part of Modern History Research Seminar); Venue: New Seminar Room, St John’s House, School of History, St Andrews, 5.15pm
19 October 2015: Dr Emma Hunter (University of Edinburgh), Concepts of Democracy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Africa: Re-Imagining Political Accountability from the Bottom Up (Lecture as part of Modern History Research Seminar); Venue: New Seminar Room, St John’s House, School of History, St Andrews, 5.15pm
22 April 2015: Roma Migration in the Past and Nowadays, Lecture by Leverhulme Professor Elena Marushiakova-Popova
14-15 May 2015: The Global City, Past & Present #1
29 May 2015: Between Federalism, Autonomy and Centralism: Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries
7-10 June 2015: GRAINES Summer School INTERCONNECTED
23 October 2014: Spatial History Reading Group Meeting
4-7 September 2014: Bringing Space back in. Mappings and Visualisations of Transnational Flows and Connections between History and Computer Science (panel at ENIUGH conference, Paris)
29 August 2014: Mapping Flows and Visualising Data in the Era of Digital Humanities
10-14 June 2014: GRAINES Summer School, Vienna
8-10 June 2014: Mapping and Visualising Transnational (Hi)Stories
7 April 2014: Perceiving and Conceptualising Historical Space (panel at Social History Society Annual Conference, Northumbria University)
30-31 August 2013: Monarchical Successions and the Political Culture of 19th-Century Europe
17-20 June 2013: GRAINES Summer School “From the Margins”, Menton, France
24 April 2013: “Partitions, Forced Population Transfers and the Question of Human Rights in Central Europe (1930s-1940s)” (Dirk Moses, EUI)
22-24 March 2013: “The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700”
14 November 2012: “Capitalizing Manuscripts, Confronting Empires: Anquetil-Duperron and the Mercantilist Economy of Oriental knowledge (1755-1780)” (Stéphane Van Damme, SciencesPo Paris / EUI)
24 October 2012: “In Search of a Moral Community: Little Popo and the Atlantic Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century” (Silke Strickrodt, GHI London)
18-19 May 2012: “The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century: Local, Regional, Transnational and Global Perspectives”– 11-12 May 2012: “The Making of Landscapes in Modernity“
27 April 2012: “Academic Life, Public Spheres and Political Cultures in Western Europe and the United States (1945-1990)”
30 September – 1 October 2011: “Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Borders”
2-3 September 2011: “Imperial Sites of Memory”
13 May 2011: “Doing History through Literature – doing Literature through History: Re-visiting disciplinary boundaries”
6 October 2010: “The USA and the Making of a Transnational Nation: Themes and Problems” (Ian Tyrrell, University of New South Wales)
16 September 2010: “The Sixties in National and Transnational Perspective: Communications and Protest Movements”
13 May 2010: “The Individual and the Local in Transnational and Comparative History”
10-13 September 2009: Historiography & Iran in Comparative Perspective
4-5 September 2009: “Engineering Space in the nineteenth century. Environment, science, technology and the shaping of space”
2-4 July 2009: “German Images of the West in the long nineteenth-century”
6 May 2009: “Learning from the Enemy? Labour Services in New Deal America and Nazi Germany in Transnational Perspective” (Kiran Patel, EUI)
5-6 September 2008: “Transnational relations of experts, elites and organizations in the nineteenth century”