Visiting Fellows

Wednesday 02 November 2011

The Centre welcomes Professor Olaf Mörke, University Kiel and Volker Prott, PhD researcher at the EUI Florence.”

Visiting Fellows

Perceptions of Time

Friday 18 November 2011

Centre for Transnational History, University of St Andrews, Date: 18/19 May 2012

Call For Papers

The aim of this workshop is to explore the development of the modern experience of time from a variety of perspectives, not only across various disciplines but also on different spatial levels.

 

The Making of Landscapes in Modernity

Thursday 17 November 2011

Where: University of St Andrews
When: 10^th and 11^th May 2012

The processes of industrialisation and urbanisation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reshaped topographies across the globe and helped create a new polarity (perceived or otherwise) between the urban and the rural. This was often represented in art, which frequently idealised a bygone era of a rural past. In the process of this, nature was transformed into landscape. Of central importance were the shifts in perception from (usable, agrarian) land to landscape. Furthermore, the emergence of nationalism and its corresponding polities made the search for the distinct character of certain states, countries, and regions imperative. Landscapes (local, regional, and transnational) became ‘nationalised’ as part of the quest for a national canon. However, some ruralist movements were often linked to primordial notions of nationhood, and also to more general ideas on modernity and the problems related to it.

"Graduate School of Transnational and Comparative History” 600th Anniversary Fundraising Campaign

Wednesday 02 November 2011

The enhanced St Andrews Graduate School for Comparative and Transnational History is a key project of the university’s 600th Anniversary fundraising campaign. The Graduate School will create a stimulating environment to foster intellectual brilliance and world-leading research. We are looking to provide bursaries for MLitt students, full scholarships for PhD students and postdoctoral positions over the next five years. This crucial support will help cement the study of transnational history at St Andrews.

Dr Benno Gammerl (Berlin)

Wednesday 02 November 2011

Dr Benno Gammerl (Berlin) ‘How national or transnational are imperial histories? The handling of ethnic heterogeneity in the British and the Habsburg Empires around 1900’

Time: Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 4pm
Venue: School of History, St Katharine’s Lodge, room 1.10

From a comparative perspective on empires Dr Gammerl questions the epistemic divide between Eastern and Western Europe and explores the themes of empire and ethnicity in transnational perspectives.”

Call for Papers

Wednesday 27 April 2011

Academic Life, Public Spheres and Political Cultures in Western Europe and the United States, 1945-90

In what ways – and to what extent – did academic life change in Western Europe and the United States during the Cold War era? Why did it change the way it did? These are the leading questions of a workshop that will examine the evolution of scholarly life within the context of far-reaching transformations of public spheres and political cultures.

Organisers: Riccardo Bavaj (University of St Andrews / Saint Louis University), Dominik Geppert (University of Bonn), Mark Edward Ruff (Saint Louis University)

Time & Place: 27 April 2012, Bonn

 

Lecture October by Professor Ian Tyrrell (University of New South Wales, Australia) October 6 2010

Thursday 21 January 2010

Lecture - 6 October 2010, 4.15pm Lecture Theatre, new Arts building 

Professor Ian Tyrrell (University of New South Wales, Australia/ University of Oxford)

'The USA and the Making of a Transnational Nation: Themes and Problems'

Lecture by Professor Jacques Revel 13 May 2010

Thursday 21 January 2010

13 May 2010

Lecture by Professor Jacques Revel (EHESS, Paris) on the problem of scales of analysis in comparative and transnational history.

Inaugural Lecture 6 May 2009

Sunday 08 February 2009

Professor Kiran Patel, European University Institute, Florence

"Learning from the Enemy? Labour Services in New Deal America and Nazi Germany in Transnational Perspective"