Events

Upcoming events

25 September 2017, Dr Kerstin von Lingen (Heidelberg), Legal Flows: Crimes against Humanity in Transnational Legal Thought, 1899-1945

Past events

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”