Imperial and World History seminars
University of London
Convenors: Frank Bongiorno (KCL), Richard Drayton (KCL), Philip Murphy (ICS), Sarah Stockwell (KCL), John Stuart (Kingston), David Todd (KCL), Jon Wilson (KCL)
Germany Room, IHR, Mondays at 5.00pm, fortnightly
Winter/Spring Term, 2010
This academic year our seminars will loosely be focussed on the theme of global intellectual history, some examining the transnational history of ideas and others the interactions of ideas and imperial power.
January 17
John Stuart (Kingston), Informal Empire, Religious Liberty, Human Rights?: Egypt, 1919-48
January 31
Leslie James (LSE), George Padmore and the African anti-colonial struggle, c. 1950-56
February 28
David Scott (Columbia), Ethnography as Intellectual History: The Small Axe project and the recovery of Caribbean thought
March 14
David Armitage (Harvard), The International Turn in Intellectual History
March 21
Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Italian debates on Empire in the Mediterranean during the
Risorgimento
Tea is available in the IHR before the seminar
The Summer term will include Frank Bongiorno (KCL) valedictory seminar on Sex in Australia, Dan Matlin (QMUL) on African-American nationalists ideas about Africa, and a roundtable on Lauren Benton (NYU)'s A Search for Sovereignty including Quentin Skinner (QMUL)
Our theme for the 2011-12 academic year will be Violence.
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