The co-directors of Exeter’s Centre for Imperial and Global History (CIGH), Dr. Chris Sandal-Wilson and Dr. Rebecca Williams are really excited to begin a new term of CIGH seminars.

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.

THURSDAY 23 JANUARY [Week 2] Sonia Levy
1.30-3pm | Digital Humanities Lab
All are warmly welcome to the keynote of the Aqueous Territory conference, a talk on
visualizing canalization in the history of the British empire by artist Sonia Levy. Co-hosted with the Aqueous Territory project.

WEDNESDAY 4 FEBRUARY [Week 5] Fiona Amery
3.30-5pm | Room B310, Amory
Our colleague Fiona Amery will present a paper entitled: “Shedding Light on the Aurora
Borealis: Local Knowledge Encounters and Epistemic Challenges, c. 1900”.

WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY [Week 7] Laura Richardson (Cambridge)
3.30-5pm | Laver Building LT3
Laura Richardson will present a paper entitled: “‘Ask the girl who knows!’: Sexual
Knowledge and Youth Identity in South African Newspaper Advice Columns, c. 1976-1985”. Co-hosted with the South Africa’s Hidden War project and the Centre for Medical History.

TUESDAY 4 MARCH [Week 8] Marcia Schenck (Potsdam)
3.30-5pm | Digital Maker Space, Forum
Marcia Schenck will present a paper entitled: “The Right to Research and the Conditions of Production of History”. Co-hosted with the Routes Network.

WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH [Week 9] Elena Romero-Passerin d’Entreves
3.30-5pm | Room B310, Amory
Our colleague Elena Romero-Passerin d’Entreves will present a paper, co-authored with
Sarah Easterby-Smith (St Andrews), entitled: “Taxonomy and Travel Narrative: London
Horticultural Society collectors in the mid-nineteenth century Americas”.

WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH [Week 11] Postgraduate Research Symposium
3.30-5pm | Room B310, Amory
As always, we’ll end the term on a high note: join us as early-stage post-graduate
researchers in Imperial and Global History share their work in advance of their upgrades.

Links to join remotely via MS Teams will be sent in advance 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.