Global History Cluster Research Programme 2023/24 - semester 2

Revisiting Colonialism and Empire

Spring Semester 2024

Wednesday 24 January 2024
4.00-5.00
Global history reading group session: Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson, Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 2023)
Location: 10 Uni Gdns McKechnie room

Wednesday 31 January 2024
4.00-5.00
Henry Dee, UofG, 'We demand free labour': Trade unions, migrant workers and the shifting politics of transnational mobility in colonial Durban, Colombo and Rangoon, c.1918-1939
Location: 10 Uni Gdns McKechnie room

Wednesday 21 February 2024
4.00-5.00
Kyle Mays, UCLA, ‘Blackness, Indigeneity, and Reparatory Justice: Land Claims and Afro-Indigenous Futures’
Location: in the Gannochy Room, Wolfson Medical School Building

Wednesday 28 February 2024
5.00-6.00
Marco Musillo, 'The Death of the King of Trees: Poetics of Ecological Resilience in Modern China´
Rm101, 8 University Gardens, co-organised with art history

Wednesday 6 March 2024
4.00-5.00
Ricardo Aguilar González, University of Warwick, ‘Sustenance: foods, drinks and bodies in the colonisation of Mesoamerica, 1350-1600’
Location: 10 Uni Gdns McKechnie room

Wednesday 13 March 2024
4.00-5.00
Maud Bracke, UofG, WIP, Global reproductive justice and stratified reproduction: contraception, race and citizenship in the French Antilles (Guadeloupe & Martinique, 1960s)
Location: 10 Uni Gdns McKechnie room

For any enquiries related to the Global History Research Cluster, including to join its mailing list, please email Julia.mcclure@glasgow.ac.uk


First published: 16 January 2024