Events

ITSH Events – Spring 2025

All events, unless noted otherwise, will be scheduled: Mondays 1-3pm UK time, delivered in person at the location indicated or, if noted, 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 Konrad Lawson ([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 – 27 Jan Lecture – Caroline Sturdy Colls – Training Camp, Labour Camp and Killing Site: Forensic Archaeological Approaches to Trawniki’s campscape Chair: Riccardo Bavaj (online)
• Week 3 – 10 Feb Lecture – Ian Klinke – Before Astropolitics: Ratzel, Schmitt, and the Question of Cosmic Colonisation Chair: Riccardo Bavaj (online)
• Week 5 – 24 Feb Lecture – Kate McDonald – Remembering the Rickshaw Everyman: Transport, Labor, and Consumer Society in Postwar Japan Chair: Konrad Lawson (online; 3-5pm)  
• Week 7 – 17 Mar Lecture – Sloane Nilsen – Fire Regime: Open Combustion, Virility, and the Myth of Prometheus in Nazi Berlin, 1933-1939 Chair: Riccardo Bavaj (in person – Room 1.10 St. Katharine’s Lodge) 
• Week 9 – 31 Mar Lecture – Cora Schmidt-Ott – Samuel Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’: The Biography of a Bestseller Chair: Riccardo Bavaj (CANCELLED)
• Week 11 – 14 Apr Lecture – Charlotte Lerg – Student Cosmopolitanism and the Beginning of the “American Century” Chair: Riccardo Bavaj (in person – Room 1.10 St. Katharine’s Lodge) 
• Week 13 – 28 Apr Lecture – Sarah Leith – Spiritual Spaces, Beautiful Places: Highland Conservation during Scotland’s Twentieth Century Chair: Riccardo Bavaj (in person – Room 1.10 St Katharine’s Lodge) 

Past Events

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