Welcome to the University of Glasgow Global History Cluster. As Glasgow is hosting the COP26 UN summit on climate change this year, many of the events in this year's research programme centre around the theme of global environmental, climate change and global justice.

Autumn History semester

September 2021
Global history MSc student welcome event

29 September 2021
at 4pm
Seminar paper: Dr Julia McClure ´Enduring passions: penitential pain, blood, and sacrifice in global cosmovisions', joint with the medieval history cluster

27 October 2021
Round table in Global Environmental History and Environmental History in Scotland, joint with Centre for Scottish history and the Poverty Research Network (ahead of Glasgow hosting COP26 )

November 2021
COP26 University of Glasgow cultural programme, events also in collaboration with the Food Sovereignty Network 

TBC
Joint session with global history cluster and the Centre for Gender History on gender and global climate change

Spring Semester

January 2022
‘Global Art History and Ecology’: seminar paper by Dr Marco Musillo.

February 2022
Joint workshop with Queens University, Canada, and the Poverty Research Network on 'Poverty and Scarcity in Global History'.

April 2022
Global history reading group – organized by the global history MSc students.

Ongoing
Joint slavery studies and global history WIP group.

Ongoing / tbc
Reading group session. This will focus on the on recent winners of prizes for global history books. The recent winner of the World History Association Bently book prize on Statelessness.

First published: 14 July 2021

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