Japan and World History
The School of History and the ITSH are proud to host Professor Carol Gluck (Columbia University) as part of our Modern History Research Seminar Series. Professor Gluck will be speaking on “Modernity in Common. Japan…
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5th GRAINES summer school: Sharpen your digital edge & tools
GRAINES Summer School: History and its sources – after the Digital Turn Call for Applications The Graduate Interdisciplinary Network for European Studies (GRAINES) is now inviting applications for its upcoming 5th…
Qing China – between walls and the maritime world
Professor Yang-wen Zheng (University of Manchester) Wind of the West Ocean [西洋风]: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China ITSH and Modern History Seminar Series Time and Venue: Monday, 30 January 2017, room…
Working with Space
Over the past few years the ITSH and the EUI in Florence have been cooperating at different levels. In 2010, St Andrews hosted the workshop “The Individual and the Local in Transnational and Comparative History“,…
Workshop Report: Spatial History and Its Sources
This workshop engaged with analytical approaches, themes, and sources in the emerging field of spatial history. It marked the first step towards a new volume to be published in the series “Routledge Guides to Using…
Workshop Report: Nation, Culture and Civilisation: Talking about and beyond ‘the West’ (1860-1940)
Building on the recently published volume “Germany and ‘the West’: The History of a Modern Concept” (2015), this workshop sought to explore the transnational discourse on ‘the West’ from the mid-nineteenth to the…
Talking Transnational History – 4 Questions for…Jordan Girardin
Coming from Sciences Po, Jordan Girardin joined St Andrews in 2012 for an MLitt in Modern History (including a good dash of transnational history exposure – since 2015 the ITHS offers a free-standing…
The Female Travel Connection – Welcome Sophie Drescher
This term Sophie Drescher is joining us at the ITSH. Sophie is a graduate from Tübingen University where she worked on female travellers and modes of travel writing as part of her final year’s master thesis. Intrigued…
Workshop: Spatial History and Its Sources
On 2 September, the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History will hold a workshop on “Spatial History and Its Sources.” You can find out more about the workshop and its schedule here. The workshop will bring…
ITSH Podcast #1: Roundtable Discussion on the “Refugee Crisis”
On 29th June, 2016, a few colleagues of the ITSH gathered for a roundtable discussion on the “Refugee Crisis” and explored some questions and problems related to recent coverage of the issue in Europe from our…