Dear Friends of the ITSH,

Please join us on Monday, 23 March 4-5:30pm in Saint Katharine’s Lodge room 1.10 or online via Microsoft Teams for a workshop directed by Professor Carl Smith titled: Spatial Imaginaries and Humanizing the Places of Enquiry. Professor Smith is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. He is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and a Chartered Geographer, both in the United Kingdom. He has wide, international experience in the practice, teaching and research of landscape and urbanism. Smith has served as a visiting professor or critic at a number of design institutions domestically and internationally, while his scholarship has been recognized through appointments at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Center and Library at Harvard University, the British School at Athens, and the American Academy in Rome.

Register for this event at:
https://standrewstransnational.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/register-for-an-itsh-event/

Dear Friends of the ITSH,

Please join us on Monday, 9 March 3:30-5pm in Saint Katharine’s Lodge room 0.01 or online via Microsoft Teams for a book launch seminar for Professor Ángeles Picone’s new work Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina. Professor Picone is a historian of Modern Latin America, specializing in the southern cone, at Boston College. She is interested in the intersection of nature and culture and is drawn to questions on how people experienced a shared sense of community through their spatial practices. Her first book, Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina, examines how explorers, migrants, authorities, and visitors constructed their versions of ‘Chile’ and ‘Argentina’ in the Northern Patagonian Andes.

To register for this event please go to: https://standrewstransnational.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/register-for-an-itsh-event/

Best wishes,

Olivier

Dear Friends of the ITSH,

Join us on Monday, 23 February 3:30-5pm in Saint Katharine’s Lodge room 0.01 or online via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr Huw Halstead titled An Afternoon at the Barber Shop: Space, Oral Testimony, and “Ethnokafenology”. Dr Halstead is Lecturer in Public History in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He works on public history, memory studies, and the history of everyday life, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean world. He is author of Greeks without Greece (Routledge, 2019), co-editor (with Kate Ferris) of Miniatures: A Reader in the History of Everyday Life (Exeter University of Press, 2025), and has written for the journals Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies; European Research Quarterly; History, History & Anthropology; History & Memory; Journal of Migration History; Journal of Modern Greek Studies; and Memory Studies.

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Dear Friends of the ITSH,

Please join us on Monday, 9 February 3:30-5pm in Saint Katharine’s Lodge room 0.01 or online via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Professor Eliga Gould titled ‘Land, Property, and People: United States Independence and the Three Partitions of 1783’. Professor Gould is Harmsworth Professor of American History at Queen’s College, Oxford University. His research focuses on the American Revolution, with an emphasis on the entangled history that the United States shared with the rest of the Americas and with Africa, Europe, and the wider world. His current book project, Peace and Independence (OUP), examines the least studied of the United States’ founding documents: the Anglo-American peace treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War.

To attend this event via Teams, please register at: https://standrewstransnational.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/register-for-an-itsh-event/

Dear Friends of the ITSH,

On Monday 26th January (week 1), 3.30-5pm, the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History will celebrate the start of the new semester with a special “flash talks” event.
The speakers – Cian Cooney, Sarah Easterby-Smith, Kate Ferris, Diana Lemberg and Akhila Yechury – will each talk for 5 mins only in response to the question: "How does your work relate to transnational/global/spatial history?”. The event will be rigorously chaired by the wonderful Bernhard Struck, and will be followed by a more open discussion about our research in relation to the Institute.
This promises to be an engaging and fun event which will set the tone, we hope, for a dynamic semester to come.
This hybrid event will be in Room 0.01, St Katharine’s Lodge, and on MS Teams. Light refreshments will be provided. All welcome!!

Very best,
Sarah Easterby-Smith, Kate Ferris and Olivier Feis

To attend this event via Teams, please register at: https://standrewstransnational.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/register-for-an-itsh-event/

Dear Friends of the ITSH,

Please join us on Monday, 24 November 3-5pm in person in Arts Building 222 Seminar Room 6 for a lecture by Olivier Feis and Michael Wang titled: ‘Reinvigorating the Nation: China, Scandinavia and the Global Eugenic Discourse, ca. 1914-1940’. Both Mr. Feis and Mr. Wang are PhD candidates within the School of History at the University of St Andrews. Wang’s research focuses on the dynamic between race, racism and Han identity within Republican China between 1912 and 1945, while Feis’s project explores the transnational networks of exchange that connected eugenicists in Scandinavia and Germany between 1905 and 1940. This is their first collaboration.

For more about our Institute Monday series and events, please visit: https://transnationalhistory.net/events/ or contact Olivier Feis at [email protected].

Dear Friends of the ITSH,

Please join us on Monday, 17 November 3-5pm via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr. Cora Schmidt-Ott titled: ‘Samuel Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’: The Biography of a Bestseller’. Dr. Schmidt-Ott is a research associate at the University of Freiburg. Her current research project centres on American political ideologue Samuel Huntington (1927-2008) and explores his intellectual biography in order to develop an interpretation of his work that historically contextualizes and explains his political thought.

Dear Friends of the ITSH,

Please join us on Wednesday 12 November 10-11:30am via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr. Richard Carter-White titled: ‘A Spatial Theory of the Camp: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Immunitarian State’. Dr. Carter-White is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the Discipline of Geography & Planning, Macquarie University. His research sits at the intersection of cultural and political geography, and provides a geographical perspective on structures, spaces, representations and experiences of violence (both political and environmental). He is currently engaged in projects investigating the spatialities of the concentration and refugee camp, post-disaster communities and landscapes in Japan, and the digital geographies of difficult heritage.

Dear Friends of the ITSH,

Please join us on Monday, 10 November 5-6:30pm in person at the Arts Lecture Theatre for a lecture by Professor Jayita Sarkar titled: ‘Global Southwests: Capital, Labor, and Uranium in American and African Southwests’, co-hosted by the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy and the ITSH. Jayita Sarkar is Professor of Global History of Inequalities at the University of Glasgow and author of the award-winning book, Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022). She is currently finishing her next book, Atomic Capitalism: A Global History (Princeton University Press, under contract).

Dear Friends of the ITSH,

Please join us on Monday, 3 November 3-5pm via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr. Claire Morelon titled: ‘Fear of Democratization in Late Habsburg Austria: from Social Conflicts to National Narratives’. Dr. Morelon is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Late Habsburg Empire. Her book Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914-1920 was published last year by Cambridge University Press. She also co-edited two volumes: one on the legacy of the Habsburg Empire after 1918 (Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918, Berghahn Books, 2018) and another one on food shortages during the First World War forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (Hunger Redraws the Map: Food, State, and Society in the Era of the First World War).

To register for this event go to: https://standrewstransnational.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/register-for-an-itsh-event/