Tues 17 March, 5:30pm, Playfair Library
Kate Smith (University of Birmingham): ‘Loss and Dispossession in the Long Eighteenth Century’
[Edinburgh Centre for Global History / Material Culture Research Cluster, Edinburgh College of Art]
Monday 9 March, 5:15pm Johannes Lotze (University of Birmingham)
‘Comparative Consciousness: The Emergence of Comparative Language Studies in the Mongol Era and its Legacies’ LG.10, DHT
[Edinburgh Centre for Global History]
Wed 5 Feb, 5:15pm
Elsje van Kessel (University of St Andrews)
‘Stolen ships, maritime law, and Eurasian object movements around 1600’
G16
[Edinburgh Centre for Global History]
Prof Susan Grayzel (Utah State University): A World Based on Justice Not Force": Feminist Confrontations with Modern Weaponry in the aftermath of the First World War
Mon 27 Jan 16.30, G.14
[Gender and Sexuality group]
English Literature Seminar Series
Week 10
Friday 27 March, 16.30–18.00, Screening Room (G.04, 50 George Square)
Diarmuid Hester (Cambridge), ‘Black|Waste’.
Threading together reflections on literature, photography, art, and film, this lecture attests to the importance of waste as a hermeneutic that offers new ways of apprehending the construction of Black identity in African American culture.
English Literature Seminar Series
Week 4
Friday 7 February, 16.30–18.00, Screening Room (G.04, 50 George Square)
Dawn Sherratt-Bado (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Creolising the Canon: Caryl Phillips, Jean Rhys, and the Brontës’.
English Literature Seminar Series. Week 2
24 January, 16.30–18.00, Screening Room (G.04, 50 George Square)
Matthew Sangster (Glasgow), ‘(Un)Romantic Metropolitanism: Scales, Selves and the Creation of Literary Distinction’.
5.15pm, G16, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.
Joel Wolfe (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Globalization under Paleo-Liberalism: The Western Hemisphere in the 1920s.
[Edinburgh Centre for Global History]
Dr David McOmish work in progress talk