Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz and Dr Mirko Canevaro speak to Retrospect about their recent appointments to the Young Academy of Europe
By Alfie Garland and Daniel Sharp Two members of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology have recently been given new appointments to the Young Academy of Europe. Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz and Dr Mirko Canevaro are, respectively, Reader in Archaeology and Reader in Greek History at the School, and have been appointed to the Executive Board of the Academy and as a Fellow, respectively. Retrospect … Continue reading Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz and Dr Mirko Canevaro speak to Retrospect about their recent appointments to the Young Academy of Europe
Academic, Features, Reviews
The Role of Colonial Legacies in the 2017 Zimbabwe Crisis
By Carissa Chew This article, which is informed by two public lectures about the Zimbabwean political crisis that were held at the University of Edinburgh in the week beginning 20 November, discusses the role of colonial legacies in recent Zimbabwean political affairs. Firstly, this article provides a summary of the Zimbabwean crisis for the reader who is not familiar with the timeline of events. Secondly, … Continue reading The Role of Colonial Legacies in the 2017 Zimbabwe Crisis
Virinder Kalra's 'Pondering on the Revolutionary Subject: From Ghadar to Kirti'
By Carissa Chew Professor Virinder S. Kalra's latest research paper, entitled 'Poetic Politics from Ghadar to the Indian Workers Association', discusses the enduring legacies of the Ghadar Party, a short-lived Indian nationalist movement which was centred in California during the First World War. Following economic hardship, which was heightened in 1906 by the Land Alienation Act, many Sikh farmers from East Punjab migrated to California. … Continue reading Virinder Kalra's 'Pondering on the Revolutionary Subject: From Ghadar to Kirti'
Gombrich's A Little History of the World
By Daniel Sharp Ernst Gombrich (1909-2001) was best known as an influential art historian, but in 1936 his first book published was an overview of world history for children and adolescents from prehistoric times to the First World War. Gombrich was Viennese by origin but lived in Britain for most of his life having fled the Nazis, and his book was first published in German … Continue reading Gombrich's A Little History of the World
Dictatorship and Democracy in the Brazilian Countryside: Rural Perspectives and New Periodisations
By Lewis Twiby On 14 November, as part of a series of lectures for the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History (CSMCH) the University of Edinburgh's own Dr. Jacob Blanc gave a lecture on his recent research. Dr. Blanc's research focused on the construction of the Itaipu Hydroelectric dam along the Brazilian-Paraguayan border by the Brazilian military junta during a period named … Continue reading Dictatorship and Democracy in the Brazilian Countryside: Rural Perspectives and New Periodisations
Argentine Voices
By Anna Nicol It is 3.30pm on Thursday in La Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, and from the crowd of busy tourists and locals, emerges a sea of white headscarves. These are the Madres (Mothers), women who first came to this square in 1977 with questions, many still unanswered. They have come to represent the relatives and the lives of thousands of 'disappeared', men and … Continue reading Argentine Voices
By Daniel Sharp Lighting a cigarette, the old man sat down by the window to wait. The time was coming, he knew, when he would die. Not from withered age would he perish though– he would do his part and bow out voluntarily. The time was coming but until it did, he was quite content to smoke his cigarettes and drink some wine. It … Continue reading June 1940