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.