Master list for the School of History, Classics and Archaeology in CHSS.
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| The Ary of the Unknown Soldiers: War Remembrance in 20th century Europe |
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| Christoph Mick (Warwick) |
| Tue 03 May 2016, 17:15 - 18:30 |
| TBC |
| The case of Lord Dufferin and the refugees' mattresses: Syria, 1860, and the beginnings of humanitarian relief |
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| Andrew Arsan (Cambridge) |
| Tue 26 Apr 2016, 17:15 - 18:30 |
| Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Old Medical School, Teviot Place |
| What use is the idea of the Long Late Antiquity |
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| Lucy Grig with colleagues (University of Edinburgh) |
| Tue 29 Mar 2016, 17:05 - 19:00 |
| Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square |
| New tendencies in teaching theology and philosophy in the University of Vienna during the XVth century |
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| Monica Brinzei (Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, CNRS, Paris) |
| Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| Adoption and Diaspora: Assimilation, Contestation, Critique |
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| Professor John McLeod (Leeds) |
| Wed 16 Mar 2016, 17:30 - 19:00 |
| Room G13, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh |
| HCA software: what we have and how it can be used |
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| Kacper Lyszkiewicz |
| Wed 16 Mar 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
| G11, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh |
| The Reception of Fascism and National Socialism in France |
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| Kevin Passmore (Cardiff) |
| Tue 15 Mar 2016, 17:15 - 18:30 |
| Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh |
| Life-writing and archives in early modern Scotland |
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| Alex Campbell (Queen's University, Canada and IASH) with Jamie Reid-Baxter (University of Glasgow) and Tom Webster (University of Edinburgh) |
| Tue 15 Mar 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| Burying the People of the People's War : Death, the Individual and the State in Second World War Britain |
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| Lucy Noakes (Brighton) |
| Tue 08 Mar 2016, 18:00 - 19:30 |
| G.05, 50 George Square |
| Space and Performance ll 'Religious Objects and Sacred Space: Constructing Medieval Christianity' |
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| Audrey Scardina (Edinburgh, Archaeology), Morgan Boharski (Edinburgh, French Literature), Samuel Gerace lll (Edinburgh, History of Art) |
| Tue 08 Mar 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| 'Medic!' 17th century Scottish Physicians and Field Surgeons in Scandinavia |
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| Professor Steve Murdoch (St Andrews) |
| Wed 02 Mar 2016, 17:30 - 19:00 |
| Room G13, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh |
| Counting Emotions in the French Revolution: what new things can the Archives parlementaires tell us about the battle with counter-revolution? |
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| David Andress (Portsmouth) |
| Tue 01 Mar 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| G200, Seminar room 3, Doorway 3, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh |
| Space and performance l |
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| John Lowrey (University of Edinburgh, Giovanna Guidicini (Glasgow School of Art), Clarisse Desmarest (University of Picardie/Institut Universitaire de France) |
| Tue 01 Mar 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square |
| Punching Heavier Than Our Weight: Past and Present |
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| Lord Hennessy (QMUL) |
| Wed 24 Feb 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh |
| Modelling (pre)historic space in time: 3D virtual reconstructions and motion capture as tools to study (pre)historic buildings |
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| Dr Mhairi Maxwell, Digital Design Studio and Dr Tanja Romankiewicz, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, SHCA |
| Wed 24 Feb 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
| Room G12, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh |
| TBC 23/2/16 |
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| Andrea Gamberini |
| Tue 23 Feb 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| Enslaved Wetnurses in the Southern States of the USA |
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| Dr Emily West (Reading) |
| Wed 17 Feb 2016, 17:30 - 19:00 |
| Room G13, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh |
| 1914 and All That. Russian Perspectives on the Collapse of the European Order |
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| Dominic Lieven (Cambridge) |
| Wed 17 Feb 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| G.05, 50 George Square |
| Stalin's Terror - the Great Fear |
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| James Harris (Leeds) |
| Tue 16 Feb 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Old Medical School, Teviot Place |
| What did it mean, and how did it feel, to look out from a mountain in the Middle Ages? |
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| Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, University of London) |
| Tue 09 Feb 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Medical School, Teviot Place, EH8 9AG |
| The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe |
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| Rachel Hoffman (Cambridge) |
| Tue 09 Feb 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| LG.09 David Hume Tower |
| Ceylon: A Scottish Colony? |
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| Professor Angela McCarthy (Otago) |
| Wed 03 Feb 2016, 17:30 - 19:00 |
| Room G13, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh |
| Controlling the Flow of Foreign War Volunteers int he Modern Era |
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| Nir Arielli (Leeds) |
| Tue 02 Feb 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| LG.09 David Hume Tower |
| Vikings Beyond Boundaries: Migration and Diaspora in the Viking Age and After |
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| Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham, Centre for the Study of the Viking Age) |
| Tue 02 Feb 2016, 17:15 - 19:00 |
| Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| Winter Semester Videoseminar II - Peter Thompson (Oxford) |
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| Peter Thompson |
| Thu 10 Dec 2015, 17:00 - 18:00 |
| Videoconference Suite, Main Library |
| Dr Barry Hazley, "From the Labour Trench to the Board': Myth, Memory and Masculinity in Irish Migrant Memories of Work in the British Construction Industry'. |
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| Dr Barry Hazley (University of Glasgow) |
| Tue 01 Dec 2015, 18:00 - 19:30 |
| G13, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh. |
| Catherine Bateson, ‘‘Harry Macarthy has come off without a single scar!’ The Americanisation of Irish music cultural diaspora during the American Civil War.’ |
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| Catherine Bateson (University of Edinburgh) |
| Tue 01 Dec 2015, 13:00 - 14:00 |
| G15 William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| Diaspora Centre Seminar - Prof. Marjory Harper, 'Homecoming Migrants as Tourists: Reconnecting the Scottish Diaspora' |
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| Marjory Harper (Aberdeen) |
| Wed 25 Nov 2015, 17:30 - 19:00 |
| G13, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh. |
| Graham Robson, ‘Scottish Home Rule, 1885-1914: The search for support in the diaspora.’ |
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| Graham Robson (University of Stirling) |
| Tue 17 Nov 2015, 13:00 - 14:00 |
| G15 William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| Winter Semester Videoseminar I - Max Edelson (Virginia) |
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| Max Edelson |
| Thu 12 Nov 2015, 17:00 - 18:00 |
| Videoconference Suite, Main Library |
| Diaspora Centre Seminar - Prof. David Dickson, 'Ireland in the Caribbean: What is the Agenda?' |
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| David Dickson (TCD) |
| Wed 11 Nov 2015, 17:30 - 19:00 |
| G13, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh. |
| Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, 'The Personal is Political: Cultures of Commemoration and the Children of 1916'. |
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| Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid (University of Sheffield) |
| Tue 10 Nov 2015, 18:00 - 19:30 |
| G13, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh. |
| Diaspora Centre Seminar - Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, 'Britain’s Black Debt: Reparatory Justice for Slavery and Genocide in Caribbean Context' |
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| Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles (University of the West Indies & Caricom Reparations Commission) |
| Thu 05 Nov 2015, 18:00 - 19:30 |
| Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| Dr Gillian O'Brien, "Telling the Same Old Story': Memory and Irish History' |
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| Dr Gillian O'Brien (LJMU) |
| Tue 27 Oct 2015, 18:00 - 19:30 |
| G13, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh. |
| SCDS Graduate Seminar - Tim Cooper, ‘White Men's Countries: Popular and Elite Responses to Japanese Immigration, 1906-1914’ |
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| Tim Cooper (University of Edinburgh) |
| Tue 27 Oct 2015, 13:00 - 14:00 |
| G15 William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| SCDS Graduate Seminar - Mauro Di Lullo, ‘The Palestinian Diaspora and Historical Memory.’ |
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| Mauro Di Lullo |
| Tue 20 Oct 2015, 13:00 - 14:00 |
| G15 William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| Diaspora Centre Seminar - Dr Michael Morris, 'Scotland and the Caribbean: Atlantic Archipelagos' |
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| Michael Morris (LJMU) |
| Wed 14 Oct 2015, 17:30 - 19:00 |
| G13, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh. |
| Prof. David T. Gleeson, "With the Ardour and Devotion of Knights Renown': Irish Americans Remember the Civil War' |
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| David T. Gleeson (Northumbria University) |
| Tue 13 Oct 2015, 18:00 - 19:30 |
| G13, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh. |
| SCDS Graduate Seminar - Iain Watson - ‘Memory and Inclusion - Waipu, New Zealand and the sharing of its extraordinary migration story.’ |
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| Iain Watson (University of Edinburgh) |
| Tue 06 Oct 2015, 13:00 - 14:00 |
| G15 William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh |
| Diaspora Centre Seminar - Prof. Allan Macinnes, 'Political Virtue & Capital Repatriation: Jacobite Agendas for Scottish Engagement with Empire' |
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| Allan Macinnes (Strathclyde) |
| Wed 30 Sep 2015, 17:30 - 19:00 |
| G13, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh. |