The Fennell Lectures and Forums are free and open to all. The Fennell Lecture has been made possible due to the generosity of a member of the History alumnus, Simon Fennell. Recordings of some of the events below are available to view by clicking on the links within the event information. Fennell Lecture: Professor Sherene Seikaly - 'The matter of time: Race, catastrophe, and Palestine' (ONLINE) 23 May 2024 17.00–19.00Following the lessons of a ghostly ancestor, named Naim Cotran, this talk begins in Sudan in 1916 and ends in Lebanon in 1951. This option is for online access. Fennell Lecture: Professor Sherene Seikaly - 'The matter of time: Race, catastrophe, and Palestine' (IN-PERSON) 23 May 2024 17.00–19.00Following the lessons of a ghostly ancestor, named Naim Cotran, this talk begins in Sudan in 1916 and ends in Lebanon in 1951. Fennell Forum: 'Energy and history' 1 Dec 2023 17.00–18.30The Fennell Forum will discuss the history of energy transitions across economies, society, and culture and how we might read these histories in our own era of a changing climate. This event will be hybrid. Fennell Forum - War and history: A conversation 1 Dec 2022 17.30–19.30The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh is proud to host the third event in the Fennell Forum series, generously supported by alumnus Simon Fennell. Fennell Lecture 2022 - Professor Marlene Daut 12 May 2022 17.00–19.00The 2022 Fennell Lecture will be delivered by Professor Marlene Daut on ‘The Kingdom of Haiti and the Age of Revolutions'. The Fennell Forum: History and the Climate Crisis 9 Nov 2021 18.00–19.00The second event in the Fennell Forum series took place during COP26 and explored the relationship between the study of history and climate change. Fennell Lecture 2021 - Professor Annette Gordon-Reed 13 May 2021 19.00–20.30The 2021 Fennell Lecture was delivered by Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, entitled 'On Juneteenth: “This, Then, is Texas”'. Fennell Forum - From Trump to Biden, what's next for US politics? 20 Jan 2021 20.00–21.30The virtual forum brought together some of the leading historians in the field of American history for a discussion of the recent US presidential election and its consequences. Postponed - The Fennell Lecture 2020 5 Mar 2020 17.00–19.00Professor Monica H Green will deliver the 2020 Fennell Lecture on 5 March, 2020. Fennell Lecture 2019 - Professor Joanne Freeman 21 Mar 2019 17.15–19.00The 2019 Fennell Lecture will be given by Professor Joanne Freeman entitled, 'The field of blood: Violence in the US Congress and the road to Civil War' on 21 March, 2019. The Fennell Lecture 2018 - Dr Sujit Sivasundaram 1 Feb 2018 17.30–19.30Dr Sujit Sivasundaram, Reader in World History, Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, will deliver the 2018 Fennell Lecture. (Published 10 January 2018) The Fennell Lecture 2016 - Professor Andrew Preston 24 Mar 2016 17.30–18.30The 2016 Fennell Lecture will be delivered by Professor Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, on Thursday 24 March 2016. This article was published on 2024-08-28
