Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
Month: September 2024
Autumn 2024 CIGH Research Seminar Schedule
The co-directors of Exeter’s Centre for Imperial and Global History (CIGH), Dr. Chris Sandal-Wilson and Dr. Rebecca Williams, wish to welcome our new students and colleagues, and are really excited to begin a new year of CIGH seminars.
All seminars take place on Wednesdays 3.30pm-5.00pm, 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 2 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 16 OCTOBER [Week 4] Archives: Digital, Material, Social
Room B310, Amory
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 13 NOVEMBER [Week 8] Meet the Children at War Team
Room B310, Amory
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 27 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 11 DECEMBER [Week 12] Postgraduate Research Symposium
Room B310, Amory
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.
This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
From the female freedom fighters of the Haitian Revolution to the Civil Rights Movement and Kamala Harris’s foreign policy, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History”The World Reimagined Globe Launch: ‘Uncertain Voyage’: Friday 4th October 2024
The Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the BME Network are delighted to invite you to The World Reimagined Globe Launch: ‘Uncertain Voyage’, on Friday 4th October 2024.
WHEN: Friday 4th October, 13:00 – 17:00
WHERE: University of Exeter, Queen’s Building, EX4 4QH
- The Quad
- Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1
- Senior Common Room
- Foyer (next to Queen’s Café)
The full programme will be confirmed in due course, and will include a musical performance, exhibitions, and keynote speakers across the afternoon.
Background:
The World Reimagined is a groundbreaking art installation project which aims to redefine how we understand the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and its lasting impact.
The university has been gifted two globes from this initiative, with one now installed at Exeter, Streatham Campus. The globe was gifted to the University on the agreement that it would be used for hosting educational and cultural events and activities.
Continue reading “The World Reimagined Globe Launch: ‘Uncertain Voyage’: Friday 4th October 2024”Call for Papers: Diplomatic History: “1776 In Global Context”
To mark the 2026 Semiquincentennial of the American Revolution, the journal Diplomatic History seeks article proposals that engage with any aspect related to the international, transnational, transimperial, continental, or global dimensions of the American Revolution, including its origins or aftermath. The articles will be published in a special forum in 2026.
Please send proposals to diplomat@shafr.org. Review of proposals will begin on October 10, 2024. Selected authors will be notified by November 1. The submission date for completed articles will be June 1, 2025. For questions please contact either pgoedde@temple.edu or anne.foster@indstate.edu.
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