Activities
The Centre supports a wide variety of research projects and events. The Centre’s core activity is a series of intensive two-day workshops on new problems and perspectives in Global History.
History Research Seminars 2016/17
A series of research seminars at the University of Dundee taking place from October 2016 to March 2017.
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Previous Events organised and planned by the centre include:
Truths and Fictions: Two Centuries of Scottish-Russian Encounters
20 June 2016, a one-day conference looking at relations between Scotland and Russia in the 20th century.
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Writing Global History Workshop
4 June 2016, a graduate student workshop on Writing Global History and Its Challenges, with Prof Jürgen Osterhammel (University of Konstanz) & Prof Geoffrey Parker (The Ohio State University).
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Global History Day 2016
18 May 2016, A day of Global History to mark the occasion of a visit to Dundee by Steve Pincus (Yale).
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The Crisis of South African Foreign Policy and the ANC: Diplomacy, Leadership and the Role of the African National Congress
27 Jan 2016, a seminar by Dr Matt Graham for the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh.
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The Political Prison: Dissent, Incarceration, and Penal Regimes
18-19 June 2015, an event drawing together researchers working across disciplines to explore how prison and other carceral institutions can function as a site of political repression and dissent.
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Medical Substances and Therapies in Colonial Asia
27-28 May 2015, a conference bringing together historians of South Asia who have worked on substances and their social trajectories.
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AHRI Lecture: Global History and the Machine Age
26 May 2015, a lecture by Professor David Arnold (University of Warwick), one of the most prolific historians of colonial medicine and modern South Asia.
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Interrogating the Revival of Empire in Humanities Research
8-9 May 2015, a workshop for graduates co-hosted with the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities and the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews.
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How Wars End
October 2014, a one day conference covering a wide range of conflicts from the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the later middle ages to the global Cold War of the twentieth century.
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Communication & Knowledge 1600-1900
part-funded by the British Academy, March 2014.
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Finance, Communication & Co-ordination in Eighteenth-Century Empires
co-hosted with Centre for History and Social Science, Yale University, part-funded by the Mellon Foundation, June 2013.
