Scottish Global History Network: The State of Global History in Scotland

Join us for a Scottish Global History Network roundtable discussion on The State of Global History in Scotland, with Professor Andrew Mackillop, Dr Julia McClure, Dr Meha Priyadarshini, Dr Benjamin Thomas White and Dr David Wilson, chaired by Dr Amitava Chowdhury.

About the panel

Dr Amitava Chowdhury is a historian and historical archaeologist of agrarian labour regimes and colonial plantations in the British Caribbean and the Indian Ocean and is interested in the meaning and theory of Global History and diaspora theories. He is particularly interested in issues of identity, nationalism, and diaspora formations of the Indians overseas.

Professor Andrew Mackillop's research interests include Early Modern Scottish History: particularly the means by which Scotland integrated into the British Union in the century or so after 1707, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the British Empire in Asia: particularly involvement in the English East India Company from 1690 to 1820, and Local, National and Global Histories: the use of social network models, global and glocal history approaches, and human-social capital theory in analyses of early modern British imperialism and expansion

Dr Julia McClure is a global historian specialising in the histories of poverty, inequality, imperialism, capitalism and the environment. She has expertise in the medieval and early modern periods, especially the long-sixteenth century. Much of her work has focused upon Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Spanish Empire. In recent years she has worked with Indigenous communities in the south of Mexico, exploring histories of land use, agroecology, and climate change.

Dr Meha Priyadarshini's research covers the areas of global history, material culture studies, colonial Latin American history and the emerging new field of global Asian studies. She focuses on the early modern period and am particularly interested in how we think about the connections between people, places and things in that era.

Dr Benjamin Thomas White is a historian of the modern Middle East by background, now teaching and researching on the history of refugees and statelessness in the world at large—with an increasing interest in the roles animals play in situations of human displacement, and the relationship between displacement and environment.

Dr David Wilson's research focuses on maritime, legal, and environmental history within the context of British colonialism between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, including the subjects of piracy, fishing, trade, and coastal communities.

Refreshments provided!

Location: Humanities research hub, 1 University Gardens

You are also warmly invited to the conference Transforming Nations and Identities in a Global World after 1945, Thursday Oct 2nd and Friday Oct 3rd. This is a collaboration between Global History at the University of Glasgow and Queen's University Global History Initiative. See this page for further details and to book.