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Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies

Diaspora Studies Graduate 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.

 


 

Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop

 

Spring 2012

 

Tuesdays at 12pm, Room 2.27 in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

 

24 January 2012

Peter Sims, London School of Economics

'British Merchants in 19th century Uruguay'

7 February 2012 Giulia De Gasperi, University of Edinburgh
'Internment of Italian Canadians in WWII'

28 February 2012 Dr Alex Murdoch, University of Edinburgh
'Scottish Settlement in America before Darien'

13 March 2012

Tiber Falzett, University of Edinburgh

'Music and Motion in the Diasporic Imagination of Cape Breton's Gaels'

27 March 2012

Dr Bart Lambert, University of York

'England's Immigrants 1330-1550'

10 April 2012

Dr Joe Hardwick, Northumbria University

'A British Church of England? the
Anglican Church and the British World, 1790-1860'

 

 



Previous programmes



Spring 2011

 

Tuesday 18 January 2011

Tom Devine

(Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Edinburgh)

'Scotland's Diaspora 1750-2010': Some reflections on the final volume of a Scottish historical trilogy (forthcoming Penguin Books, 2011)

 

Tuesday 1 February 2011

Rusty Roberson

(History, University of Edinburgh)

'The SSPCK and the
Great Awakening: a Pragmatic Alliance?'

 

Tuesday 15 February 2011

Graham Robson

(Lancaster University)

'Scots Abroad, Politics at Home'

 

Tuesday 1 March 2011

Claire McLoughlin

(University of St Andrews)

'The tip of the iceberg: Scottish
commercial connections with Iberia in the seventeenth century'

 

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Eric Graham

(Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh)

'John Monro (1887-1969): Gaelic Speaking Glasgow Engineer and Builder of Sugar Mills Throughout the Empire and Beyond'


Tuesday 22 March 2011

Eoin McLaughlin

(University of Edinburgh)

'Emigration and microfinance; some evidence from Ireland in the latter nineteenth century'

 

Tuesday 19 April 2011

Sonia Baker

(University of Edinburgh)

'Moving around the "small" world of the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Scots, the West Indies and beyond'


Autumn 2011

 

 

27 September 2011

Lindsey Flewelling, University of Edinburgh History PhD Candidate

‘The Scotch-Irish in America: identity and Attitudes toward Irish Home Rule Politics’

11 October 2011

Alistair Hunter, University of Edinburgh Politics and International Relations PhD Candidate

‘Immigrant housing policy in post-WW2 France: migrant worker hostels in historical perspective’

25 October 2011

Sarah McCaslin, University of Edinburgh History PhD Candidate

‘Looking to the Land O’ Cakes: Scottish Club Culture in America, c.1750-1776’

8 November 2011

Dr Iain Whyte

‘Myths and Stereotypes: Zachary Macauley in Sierra Leone, 1793-1799’

15 November 2011

Dr Tanja Bueltmann, Lecturer in History, Northumbria University

‘Globalising St. George: Associational Culture in the English Diaspora’

22 November 2011

Dr Esther Breitenbach and Dr Leslie Orr, University of Edinburgh ESRC Research Fellows

‘Colonial Returners and Civil Society in Twentieth Century Scotland: Imperial Ideologues and Critics of Empire’

6 December 2011

Elisabetta Spano, University of Edinburgh African Studies PhD Candidate

'Refugee and migrants: the South African community in Botswana during the apartheid era'

 


 

2010

 

Autumn 2010

 

Tuesday 12 October 2010

David Ritchie

(History, University of Edinburgh)

'Scottish Unionism and the Anti-Irish Campaign in the 1920s'

 

Tuesday 26 October 2010

Bryan Glass

(University of Texas at Austin)

'The Church of Scotland and
Anti-Colonialism: Reality or Creative Myth-Making?'



 

2009

Spring 2009

 

Thursday 29 January 2009

Welcome: Mario Varricchio (History)
Presentation: Dr Enda Delaney, Dr Alex Murdoch (History): The Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies/MSc Diaspora Studies
  David Hesse (History): A "Diaspora" of Japanese Bankers in London ? The career of the term Diaspora.

 

Thursday 19 February 2009

Presentation: Harinda R. Vidanage (Politics): Diaspora Voices on London. Diaspora Politics and Assemblage.
  Joan Haig (African Studies): The Zambian Hindu Diaspora

 

Thursday 12 March 2009

Presentation:

Prof William M. Jenkins (Geography, York University, Canada ): Mapping the Diasporic Imaginations of Irish Migrants and their Descendants in North America, 1900-1930.

(Joint Workshop with the Modern British and Irish History Seminar)

 

Thursday 26 March 2009

Presentation: Chris Ogden (Politics): Diaspora: Some Observations from International Relations
  Janice McLean (Divinity): Diaspora in Divinity

 

Thursday 9 April 2009

Presentation:

Jacob Patterson-Stein (Literature): A Diaspora of Genre? Dub Poetry.

 

Autumn 2009

 

 

Tuesday 29 September 2009

Mario Varricchio

(History, University of Edinburgh)

'The evidence of words: listening to the voices of diaspora'

 

Tuesday 13 October 2009

Stuart Mackenzie

(School of Business, University of Ballarat)

'Tartan entrepreneurs: Scots on the Victorian Goldfields'

 

Tuesday 27 October 2009

Iqbal Akhtar

(School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh)

'Indo-African Identity in Tanzania: The Case of the Khoja Diaspora'

 

Tuesday 10 November 2009

Eva Kilborn

(History, University of Edinburgh)

'Changing patterns of Hungarian migration: some issues of methodology'

 

Tuesday 24 November 2009

Amy Lloyd

(History, University of Cambridge)

'Popular perceptions of emigration in Britain, 1870-1914'

 

Tuesday 8 December 2009

Discussion of the concept of "expatriation" and the article by Nancy Green, 'Expatriation, Expatriates, and Expats: The American Transformation of a Concept', American Historical Review 14, 2 (April 2009), p. 307-328

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