Professor Jim Livesey will be participating in a panel session at the Detroit City of Design Summit next week. Part of the Detroit Design Festival 2016, the summit will be convening leaders from Detroit’s design community, government, community development, business and industry, along with international partners to explore how they can utilize design to build
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We are delighted to announce that Dr Peggy Brunache, tutor in History and American Studies at the University of Dundee, will be participating in an event on Thursday 1st September 2016 which will be filmed as part of an upcoming new BBC series. ‘A Black History of Britain’ will be a new BBC Two history series, and as
On Saturday 4th June 2016, the Scottish Centre for Global History hosted a very successful graduate student workshop at the University of Dundee on ‘Writing Global History and Its Challenges’, exploring a range of methodological issues with respect to Global History. Graduate students and academic staff from the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh and St. Andrews
Graduate students from all over Scotland will be gathering at the University of Dundee on Saturday 4th June to discuss ‘Writing Global History and its Challenges’. The workshop will be led by Professor Geoffrey Parker of the Ohio State University and Professor Jürgen Osterhammel of the University of Konstanz. Find out more
The Crisis of South African Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Leadership and the Role of the African National Congress is the latest book to be written by Dr Matthew Graham from the University of Dundee (published by I.B. Tauris). The emergence of a ‘new’ democratic South Africa under Nelson Mandela was regarded as a high watermark for international
You can listen again to the fantastic lecture by Professor David Arnold (University of Warwick) on ‘Global History and the Machine Age’, which he gave for the Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI) and the Scottish Centre for Global History at the University of Dundee in May 2015. Listen to the lecture More information on the lecture
This week, Dr Matt Graham, has being spending time at the International Studies Group based at the University of the Free State, in South Africa, to explore ways in which collaboration can be extended between the two universities. Building upon previous events during 2014/15 which saw two sets of post-doctoral and PhD students from the
A group of students and academics from three continents gathered in St. Andrews and Dundee last weekend for a series of workshops on Global History sponsored by the Scottish Graduate Schoolof Arts and Humanities. The workshops formed part of a series of two months of debates, workshops, network events and conferences on Global History to
The Scottish Centre for Global History at the University of Dundee is hosting two months of debates, workshops, network events and conferences on Global History. In May and June we will welcome some of the most prominent practitioners of global history to explain their vision of the field, host conferences on cutting edge research and
