The Transnational Scotland workshop in Greenock

On Friday the 14th of February, I attended the 5th workshop of Transnational Scotland (@Transnational15) in the Watt Institution (@WattInstitution) in Greenock. Transnational Scotland is a project aiming to connect academics, heritage professionals, and creative practitioners to look at Scotland global links and encourage new methods of creative dissemination of knowledge. Although this was mostly …

HistoryCon

In mid-November, we travelled to the beautiful city of Dublin to attend the Trinity History Con 2.0. History Con is an event at the intersection of academic conferences and Comic Cons. For two days, historians, academics, entertainment professionals, actors, and anyone who wants to attend meet and discuss History and its links to popular media. …

Plants and Empire

On Friday 18th of November, we headed to Dundee’s botanic garden. The University of Dundee’s History department has a class on the history of empires and global trade taught by Dr Martine van Ittersum and Dr Chris Storrs. They invited us to take part in their day long workshop on “Plants and Empire” in the …

Merplantilism at the Explorathon2019 at the Dundee Science Center or “How to not die without coffee”

  On 28 Saturday 2019, at 9am in the morning, together with other researchers we took the bus to Dundee Science Center to participate in the Explorathon 2019. During the bus trip we already got the feeling that we had a different angle than the other participants.   Arrived safely at the center we prepared our …

Merplantilism at the Botanic Garden of St Andrews

Learning about 18th-century trade at the Botanic Garden in St Andrews written by Christin Simons On the 14 September 2019, we were lucky to get a table at the St Andrews Botanic Garden Autumn Open Day to present Merplantilism. Between the Bee-friends and the Seedbomb table, I was setting up the game and some additional …

The first official presentation of Mer-plant-ilism at the Doctoral Showcase of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities in Glasgow

On Thursday 20th of June, we travelled to Glasgow for the annual doctoral showcase of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (https://www.sgsah.ac.uk/). Every year, the SGSAH brings together PhD students in the Arts and Humanities from all around Scotland to present their research in material, creative ways.  It was also a special year, …