Dr. Sarah Leith – The University of St Andrews This lecture revisits T.C. Smout’s concept of ‘use and delight’ to further consider conservation work in modern Scotland. Smout outlined this concept within his Nature…
Dr. Charlotte Lerg – Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich The paper examines the ambivalent nature of the Cosmopolitan-Club movement on American campuses around the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.…
Sloane Nilsen – University of California, Berkley It is no secret that fire was made a principal aesthetic of state-sponsored demonstrations in Nazi Berlin. It was displayed in such excess that the Jewish novelist…
Professor Kate McDonald – University of California, Santa Barbara At the turn of the twentieth century, the rickshaw puller represented the bottom rung of urban life in modern Japan. By the turn of the twenty-first,…
Professor Ian Klinke St John’s College Oxford This paper seeks to open an inquiry into the origins of astropolitics, an intellectual and popular imagination whose defining characteristic is the attempt to project…
Started in February 2023, Hot Girl Histories explores women’s histories and queer histories normally not found in textbooks. Join Claire Elizabeth Taylor, an English and Modern History undergraduate student at the…
Since completing my MLitt in Transnational, Global and Spatial History at the University of St Andrews in 2016, I have continued to incorporate Digital Humanities methods into my historical research. The ‘Skills in…
Our institute monday event linup includes skills sessions, reading groups, manuscript workshops, project team reports, research lectures, and a research workshop.
Due to the cancellation of all face-to-face meetings at the University of St Andrews in the wake of the Corona Virus outbreak, we will cancelling some events and moving others online. Please check in on the events page…
English is today’s Globish. Today, English is the language that eases international trade, cross-border and cross-cultural communication. English is part and parcel of the most recent phase of globalisation and…