Past events
Autumn 2024 seminars
All seminars take place on Wednesdays 3.30pm-5.00pm in person in Room B310 in Amory unless otherwise noted, with the option to join remotely. Reminders, links, and abstracts will be sent a week in advance of each seminar to the CIGH mailing list. To be added, please email Chris and Beccy at c.w.sandal-wilson@exeter.ac.uk and r.williams2@exeter.ac.uk.
Wednesday 2nd October (Week 2)
Welcome (Back) Social - Amory Senior Common Room
Join us for an informal gathering to mark the start of the academic year, welcome new researchers, and catch up with old friends. Drinks and nibbles provided!
Wednesday 9th October (Week 3)
Work-in-progress lunchtime seminar - Peter Chalk 2.6 - 1:00pm-2:00pm
Emily Bridger will be sharing work she’s been doing on an article on ‘(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History’.
Wednesday 16th October (Week 4)
Archives: Digital, Material, Social - Amory B310
Join our panel of expert historians – Martin Thomas, Nelly Bekus, and David Thackeray – as they reflect on the archive as a digital, material, and social phenomenon, and offer tips for working in the archives of imperial and global history.
Wednesday 13th November (Week 8)
Meet the Children at War Team - Amory B310
Come along to hear about the research Chessie Baldwin, Pamela Nzabampema, Richard Raber, and Phoebe Shambaugh will be doing as part of the Children at War project.
Wednesday 27th November (Week 10)
Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots - Forum Seminar Room 6
Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots is a community heritage and oral history project focused on diverse and multicultural histories in Devon. Hilda Tosfor will be joining us to talk about the project – all welcome!
Wednesday 11th December (Week 12)
Postgraduate Research Symposium - Amory B310
As always, we’ll see out the term on a high note: join us as post-graduate researchers working on Imperial and Global History at Exeter share their work in progress.
Autumn 2023 Seminars
| Date | Location | Speaker / Event | Title |
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| WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER (week 2) | Laver Building (Level 8, Room 825) | Welcome social |
Join us for an informal gathering on the top floor of the Laver Building (level 8, Room 825) to mark the start of the academic year, welcome new researchers, and catch up with old friends. Wine, non-alcoholic drinks, and nibbles provided! |
| WEDNESDAY 18 OCTOBER (week 4) | Room B310, Amory | Archive Stories |
Join our panel of expert historians as they recount their stories from the archive and offer tips for undertaking archival work in imperial and global history. |
| WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER (week 7) | Room B310, Amory | Darius Wainwright, University of Bristol |
‘Showcasing America, Depicting Iran: Iran, The Smithsonian, and the United States Information Agency, 1963-1970’ Co-hosted with the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies and Art History and Visual Culture |
| WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER (week 10) | Room B310, Amory | Grace Redhead, University of Exeter |
‘Between ‘Island Laboratories’: Sickle cell, genetic research and ‘race’ at the end of empire’ |
| WEDNESDAY 13 DECEMBER (week 12) | Room B310, Amory | Postgraduate research symposium |
Join us as post-graduate researchers working on Imperial and Global History at Exeter share their work in progress. |
Term 2 2022/23
| Date | Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEDNESDAY 25 JANUARY | Amory B218 | Lu Chen, Sebastian Fonseca, & Andrea Espinoza Carvajal |
Retelling Global Histories of Health: a panel discussion with Connecting3Worlds postdoctoral researchers Co-hosted with the Centre for Medical History |
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*THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY* Postponed due to industrial action |
Seminar Room 2, The Forum |
Kim Wagner | Queen Mary, University of London |
‘“The most illuminating thing I have ever seen”: Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906’ Co-hosted with the Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict |
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*WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY* Postponed due to industrial action |
Pearson Teaching Room, Building:One | Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman | “Gay Lesson One: Section 28 was an anti-black law” |
| WEDNESDAY 8 MARCH | Pearson Teaching Room, Building:One | Remi Rana Allen | University of the Arts, London |
“Recovering Indian Women’s Histories through Creative Practice and Interdisciplinary Research: The Murder Trial of Gurnam Kaur” – Research in Conversation: Remi Rana Allen in conversation with Prof Stacey Hynd Co-hosted with Art History and Visual Culture |
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WEDNESDAY 15 MARCH Postponed due to industrial action |
Amory B218 |
Margot Tudor, Catriona Pennell, & Thomas Owen |
“Reckoning with responsibility: the Mesopotamia Commission into British military failings during a moment of imperial transformation, 1916-1919” |
| WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH | Amory B218 | PGR Upgrades |
Join us as post-graduate researchers working on Imperial and Global History at Exeter share their work in progress.
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