Fennell Lectures and Fennell Forums

23 May 2024 17.00–19.00

Following 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.

23 May 2024 17.00–19.00

Following the lessons of a ghostly ancestor, named Naim Cotran, this talk begins in Sudan in 1916 and ends in Lebanon in 1951.

1 Dec 2023 17.00–18.30

The 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.

1 Dec 2022 17.30–19.30

The 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. 

12 May 2022 17.00–19.00

The 2022 Fennell Lecture will be delivered by Professor Marlene Daut on ‘The Kingdom of Haiti and the Age of Revolutions'.

9 Nov 2021 18.00–19.00

The second event in the Fennell Forum series took place during COP26 and explored the relationship between the study of history and climate change.

13 May 2021 19.00–20.30

The 2021 Fennell Lecture was delivered by Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, entitled 'On Juneteenth: “This, Then, is Texas”'.

20 Jan 2021 20.00–21.30

The 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.

5 Mar 2020 17.00–19.00

Professor Monica H Green will deliver the 2020 Fennell Lecture on 5 March, 2020.

21 Mar 2019 17.15–19.00

The 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.

1 Feb 2018 17.30–19.30

Dr Sujit Sivasundaram, Reader in World History, Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, will deliver the 2018 Fennell Lecture. (Published 10 January 2018) 

24 Mar 2016 17.30–18.30

The 2016 Fennell Lecture will be delivered by Professor Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, on Thursday 24 March 2016.