All seminars will take place on Thursday evenings beginning at 5.15pm in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre (second floor of the Old Medical School in Teviot Place). Enter by Doorway 1 by the entrance to the quadrangle.
19 January 2012 |
Sonia Baker, University of Edinburgh
Scottish paternalism at home and in Empire; parallels between Scotland and the West Indies
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22 March 2012 |
Dr Andrew McKillop, University of Aberdeen
Scots Law and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
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5 April 2012
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Dr Nick Draper, University College London
Legacies of Scottish Slave-ownership: Scotland's share in Britain's colonial slave empire
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| 19 April 2012 |
Dr Adam Budd, University of Edinburgh
John Armstrong (1709-1778) MD Edin (1732), Expatriate Poet-Physician in London
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uate Workshop
The Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop takes place usually every two weeks on Tuesdays at 12pm. All meetings will meet in Room 2.27 in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.
The interdisciplinary Diaspora Studies Workshop launched by the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies in 2009 is open to all MSc and PhD students working in the field of diaspora and migration.
At each meeting the participants will discuss a short paper, which will be pre-circulated and be available on-line at least one week in advance.
Subjects for discussion will include issues of migration, identity, and the movement of peoples, cultures and ideas across time and space.
The workshop aims to create an interdisciplinary network of diaspora researchers. It offers an engaging forum where research students can receive constructive criticism, present their work in progress, discuss draft conference or seminar papers, tackle methodological issues and seek assistance with specific problems.
Spring 2012
| 24 January 2012 |
Peter Sims, London School of Economics
'British Merchants in 19th century Uruguay'
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| 7 February 2012 |
Giulia De Gasperi, University of Edinburgh
'Internment of Italian Canadians in WWII'
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| 28 February 2012 |
Dr Bill Aird, University of Edinburgh
'The Norman achievement: a medieval diaspora?'
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| 13 March 2012 |
Tiber Falzett, University of Edinburgh
'Music and Motion in the Diasporic Imagination of Cape Breton's Gaels'
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| 27 March 2012 |
Dr Bart Lambert, University of York
'England's Immigrants 1330-1550'
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Events
of interest outside the Centre
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