Events

Upcoming ITSH Events – Fall 2020

All events will be scheduled: Mondays 13:00-15:00 UK time, on the ITSH Microsoft Team

28 Sept (W3) – Skills Session
Konrad Lawson – Introduction to Regular Expressions for Advanced Text Search

5 Oct (W4) – Reading Group
Angus Waugh – Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Anne Salmond

12 Oct (W5) – Skills Session
Konrad Lawson – Visualising Social Networks with Cytoscape

23 Oct (W6 – Friday) – Workshop
“Tourism and Sexuality in West Germany” Craig Griffiths (Manchester Metrop.), Kristoff Kerl (Copenhagen), Nikolaos Papadogiannis (Bangor) – will be on Zoom

26 Oct (W7) – Reading Group
Sarah Easterby-Smith – Provincialising Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830 by James Livesey

2 Nov (W8) – Manuscript Workshop
Claudia Kreklau – Making Modern Eating –  “Culinary Spirit of the Age”

9 Nov (W9) – Project Team Report
Kate Ferris and team – Everyday Dictatorship

16 Nov (W10) – Reading Group
Charmaine Lam – Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew

23 Nov (W11) – Manuscript Workshop
Riccardo Bavaj, Bernhard Struck and Konrad Lawson – Introduction to Doing Spatial History

30 Nov (W12) – Research Lecture
Darragh Gannon “Mapping the ‘two geographies’ of Global History: Ireland and the World, 1919-1923

7 Dec (W13) – Manuscript Workshop
Zhentian Xie – draft chapter from PhD dissertation “Through Pots and Pans: Culinary and Cultural Bonds between China and Japan, 1868-1949”

Note: If you are not on the ITSH mailing list and wish to attend one of our events, or if you are unable to gain access to the Microsoft Team for the institute, please get in touch with Konrad Lawson (kml8@st-andrews.ac.uk) at least a week before the event you are interestd in to receive any pre-distributed materials.

Previous Events – Spring 2020

Unfortunately, due to the Corona Virus outbreak, face-to-face meetings will no longer be running. We will add information below about events that will run virtually in our Microsoft Teams channel for Institute Mondays.

ITSH Institute Mondays AY2019-20 – Semester 2

Time and Venue: 1-3pm, Venue: Old Seminar Room, St John’s House, 71 South Street

3 February Reading Group: Elizabeth Lambourn, Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World – Comments by Sarah Easterby-Smith

17 February Reading Group: Bryan C. Keene, Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts – Comments by James Palmer

2 March Skills Session: Cleaning and Searching Digital Texts with Regular Expressions – Konrad Lawson
– Cancelled due to UCU Strike.

30 March Reading Group: J. E. Fox, “The edges of the nation: a research agenda for uncovering the taken-for-granted foundations of everyday nationhood.” Nations and Nationalism, 23(1), 26–47. – Opens with comments by Kate Ferris
– Event will take place through Microsoft Teams online here.

More details to come about the status of further upcoming events. Check back here.

6 April Project Introduction: Esperanto & Internationalism 1880-1920s – Bernhard Struck and project on Microsoft Teams

13 April Reading Group: Carlos Machado, Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome : AD 270-535 – Opens with comments by Carlos Machado – on Microsoft Teams

Texts will be pre-circulated for the sessions. Please email Konrad Lawson at least a week before hand if you want to join us and receive these. (kml8@st-andrews.ac.uk).

Previous Events – Fall 2019

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”.

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)

  

• 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”