Global History Cluster Research Programme 2024/25

Autumn semester 2024

Monday 23 September 2024
4-5pm
Global History Welcome Event
10 University Gardens, 101 Mckechnie room

Friday 27 September 2024
Scottish Global History Network Conference
University of Strathclyde

3-5 October 2024
Queens University, Canada, Global History: Remapping Categories and Concepts 
Registration for virtual attendance now available 

Wednesday 16 October 2024
4-5pm
Reading group session
Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory, Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Liveright, 2024), session led by Sarah Dunstan
10 University Gardens, 101 Mckechnie room

Wednesday 6 November 2024
5-6pm
Marco Musillo, The Death of the King of Trees: Poetics of Ecological Resilience in Modern China´
co-organised with art history (rescheduled from 2024)
Location tbc

Thursday 7 November 2024
Sarah Dunstan, “Roads Out French Empire: Imaginaries and Realities of the 1947 Malagasy Uprising”
Joint with the Scottish Centre for War Studies & Conflict Archaeologylocation tbc

Reading group session TBC
Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, September 2022), session led by Sarah Cockram

Spring Semester 2025

Date and time TBC
Book talk by Christopher Tounsel, Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity (Cornell University Press, 2024, released soon), session chaired by Oli Charbonneau

Date and time TBC
Anne Heffernan, University of Durham, visiting fellow at the Glasgow archives, paper on Scottish women transnational and trans imperial pathways through Africa, session led by Sarah Dunstan

Date and time TBC, May
Graduate conference in Global History, co-organised with Queens University, Canada

For any enquiries related to the Global History Research Cluster, including to join its mailing list, please email Julia.mcclure@glasgow.ac.uk

First published: 21 August 2024

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