Global History Cluster Research Programme 2024/25
Published: 21 August 2024
Check our exciting year-long programme of events!
Global History Cluster Research Programme 2024/25
Spring Semester 2025
All events will take place in the McKechnie Room, 101, 10 University Gardens, unless otherwise stated.
Wednesday 22 January 2025, 4-5pm
Bethan Holt – ‘A scene of slavery and extortion’: Narratives of indenture in the era of emancipation, c. 1834-1840
(research presentation)
Wednesday 5 February 2025, 4-5pm
Tinashe Nyamunda – Finance and Politics in the Kariba South Hydroelectric Project, 1950s-1964: Colonial Development and Imperial Retreat in Central Africa
(work-in-progress)
Wednesday 19 February 2025, 4-5pm
Shantel George – Casting the Kola Nut on New Ground: Towards a Cultural Biography of an African Seed
(work-in-progress)
Wednesday 5 March 2025, 4-5pm
Jelmer Vos – Heights in enslaved and indentured populations from west-central Africa, 1839-1892
(work-in-progress)
Wednesday 12 March 2025, 4-5pm
Dilan Tulsani – Black Colony, White Dominion: Policing Anticolonialism in Interwar Tanganyika Territory and Australia
(research presentation)
Wednesday 19 March 2025, 4-5pm
Natasha Telepneva – Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) militants studying in the USSR
(work-in-progress)
Thursday 27 March 2025, 4-5pm
Mackenzie Cooley – Enhanced: Bodily Potential and Nahua Cosmologies in a New History of Science
details tbc
Friday 28 March 2025, time tbc
Mackenzie Cooley - Animal Others: More-than-Humans in the Archive, workshop chaired by Sarah Cockram, in collaboration with the medieval research cluster, details tbc
Wednesday 16 April 2025, 4-5pm
Sarah Dunstan – details tbc
Wednesday 23 April 2025, 4-5pm
Anna Calori – details tbc
Wednesday 7 May 2025, 4-5pm
Lloyd Belton – ‘Gentlemanly strangers from Hayti’: A Black Caribbean family at the dawn of equal rights activism in 1820s Boston
(work-in-progress)
Wednesday 14 May 2025, 4-5pm
Level 12 University of Glasgow Library
Anne Heffernan – Mabel Palmer, Scottish women, colonial education and trans-imperial pathways through Africa
(research presentation)
Session led by Sarah Dunstan, in association with the University Library’s Visiting Research Fellowship Programme
Friday 23 May 2023 - all day
Movements and Memory in Global South Asian Labour History – one-day workshop in association with Glasgow Labour Employment & Work (GLEW) group, details tbc
Other events
June 2025, joint with Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies, talk by Jo Guldi on land rights, details tbc
October 2025, Graduate conference in Global History, co-organised with Queens University, Canada, details tbc
For any enquiries related to the Global History Research Cluster, including to join its mailing list, please email the global history cluster coordinators, Henry Dee (henry.dee@glasgow.ac.uk) or Stephen Mullen (stephen.mullen@glasgow.ac.uk)
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
First published: 21 August 2024