Global History Cluster Research Programme 2025/26
Published: 9 September 2025
Check our exciting year-long programme of events!
Global History Cluster Research Programme 2025/26
First Semester (Oct-Dec 2025)
All events will take place in the Room 208, 2 University Gardens, unless otherwise stated.
Wednesday 1 October 2025, 4-5pm
Glasgow-Queens University Global History Conference, ‘The State of Global History in Scotland’ (roundtable)
Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens
Thursday 2 and Friday 3 October 2025
Graduate Conference, ‘Transforming Nations and Identities in a Global World after 1945´
co-hosted with Queen’s University, ARC, Studio 2
Wednesday 8 October 2025, 4-5pm
Sihong Lin (Glasgow), ‘The View from the East: Reconstructing Eastern Roman Contacts with Tang China during the Arab Conquests’ (research presentation)
co-hosted with Medieval Studies
Wednesday 15 October 2025, 4-5pm
Gagan Preet Singh (Liverpool), ‘Police Violence, Justice, and Women’s Experiences in Colonial India’ (research presentation)
co-hosted with the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies
Thursday 23 October 2025, 11-12:30pm
R. Joseph Parrott (Ohio State), Natasha Telepneva (Strathclyde, discussant) and Jay Sarkar (Glasgow, chair)”, ‘Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism’ (book presentation)
co-hosted with Economic and Social History, St Andrew’s Building, Room 433A/B
Wednesday 29 October 2025, 4-5pm
UCL and ONLINE
Roundtable on 'Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History´, A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic, featuring Bethan Fisk, Chloe L. Ireton, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez. Respondent, Jorge Díaz Ceballos and chaired by Alexander Samson. Register here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/oct/space-mobility-and-subjecthood-early-modern-history
Wednesday 5 November 2025, 4-5pm
Jesús Sanjurjo (Strathclyde), ‘Anatomy of a Failed Revolution: The Uprising of General Manuel Lorenzo in Santiago de Cuba and the Extraordinary Case of the Radical Pardo Candelario Villafaña, 1836-1841’ (works-in-progress)
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 4-5pm
Salma Ali (Scottish Museum of Empire, Slavery, Colonialism and Migration), ‘In the Margins, but Always There: Re-Framing Scotland's Colonial History Through Empowerment, Agency, and Diversity’ (research presentation)
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4-5pm
Charles Chamberlain (University of New Orleans), ‘Scottish Creole: A Lowland Family’s Experiences in New Orleans, Louisiana: 1770-1860’ (research presentation)
Wednesday 26 November 2025, 4-5pm
Grace Carrington (UCL), ‘The British Monarchy in the Caribbean: Decolonisation, Republicanism and Reparations’ (research presentation)
Wednesday 3 December 2025, 4-5pm
Messias Basques (Glasgow), ‘Untold Lives: Black Enslaved People and the Scottish Trade in Brazil’ (research presentation)
For any enquiries related to the Global History Research Cluster, including to join its mailing list, please email the global history cluster coordinators, Lloyd Belton (Lloyd.Belton@glasgow.ac.uk) or Julia McClure (Julia.McClure@glasgow.ac.uk)
First published: 9 September 2025