Two months of global history events
Published On Wed 6 May 2015 by Grant Hill
Two months of debates, workshops, network events and conferences on global history will begin at the University of Dundee this weekend with an exploration of Empire.
Throughout May and June the University’s Scottish Centre for Global History will welcome some of the discipline’s most prominent practitioners of global history. They will explain their vision of the field, host conferences on cutting edge research and hold training workshops for new doctoral researchers. Many of the events are open to the public and all welcome participants from across Scotland and the world.
The programme begins on Friday, 8th May with the ‘Interrogating the Revival of Empire in Humanities Research’ workshop co-hosted with the University of St Andrews. The workshop will welcome graduate researchers from all over Scotland, the University of the Free State in South Africa, and Yale University.
James Livesey, Professor of Global History and Acting Dean of School of Humanities at the University, said, “We are delighted to be welcoming esteemed colleagues from around the world, including some of the best emerging researchers working in the field of global history, to the University.”
“The next two months will help cement Dundee’s reputation as a centre of excellence for the study of global history. New developments, findings and research agendas will be shared and debated. I anticipate this excellent programme of events will produce some exciting insights.”
Other events taking place over the next two months include:
- AHRI Lecture: Global History and the Machine Age - Professor David Arnold (26th May)
- Monitoring Markets: Medical Substances and Therapies in Colonial Asia (27th-28th May)
- The Political Prison: Incarceration, Dissent, and Penal Regimes (18th-19th June)
The Scottish Centre for Global History brings together members of the School of Humanities and other academic schools at the University of Dundee with interests in the development of global history. Research interests span the globe from India to South America, from Canada to South Africa and range from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
More information is available from http://globalhistory.org.uk/.
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