Seminars

The Centre for Imperial and Global History runs a seminar series each term, as well as occasional workshops. 

Our past seminars are also available to browse.

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.

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