This is a past event
Global Security, Governance and Applied History Week, 11-14 March 2025
1-2 pm, Erik de Lange (Utrecht University): ‘Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the 19th-Century Mediterranean’
2 pm – 2.30 pm, Coffee Break
2.30 pm-3.00 pm, Applied History Roundtable with Erik de Lange: ‘What can we learn from the 19thcentury about the nature of security and governance?’
(Insights from Securing Empire: Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the 19th Century, ed. by Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci & Erik de Lange (Bloomsbury))
3 pm – 3.30 pm. Why was Auschwitz not Bombed?: Tubby Grant Security Roundtable, Part 1. With Julia Pohlmann & Thomas Weber
Speakers:
Dr. Erik de Lange is an Assistant Professor in the History of Int’l Relations at the Department of History & Art History and the author of Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press). He is founding member & co-organiser of the Security History Network.
Julia Pohlmann is a PhD student in the Dept. of History of the University of Aberdeen as well as research assistant for Global Security and Governance. Her PhD dissertation is on ‘“Transatlantic Zions”: The imagined Jew as a trope of political imagination in Scotland and the British North American Sphere from 1707 to 1820’.
Prof. Thomas Weber is Professor of History and International Affairs and Director of the Centre for Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen. He also is a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
- Hosted by
- Centre for Global Security and Governance - in honour of the late Alexander Grant
- Venue
- Humanity Manse Seminar Room
- Contact
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All Welcome. There is no need for prior registration.
For further details, please contact Thomas Weber at t.weber@abdn.ac.uk.