RESEARCHING THE COLONIAL ARCHIVE: A TRAINING DAY

RESEARCHING THE COLONIAL ARCHIVE: A TRAINING DAY

Commodities and Culture Leverhulme Network


Victoria and Albert Museum - 27 June 2011, 9.30-5.00pm


With Isabel Hofmeyr (Witwatersrand), Satish Padiyar (Courtauld), Josephine McDonagh (King's), Chris Breward (V&A), Anna Jackson (V&A), Sue Stronge (V&A) and Rosemary Crill (V&A)


This intensive event offers post-graduate and early-career researchers working in eighteenth and nineteenth century subjects training in archival analysis and research methods. Designed around the excellent collections of the V&A this event focuses on textual history, visual culture and the methodological issues collection based research might raise: it also includes collection visits and experience with archival materials. We will consider, amongst other things, 'The Material Histories of Postcolonial Texts', 'Reading the Visual', and 'The Colonial Archive'.


Refreshments and lunch will be provided; there will also be a small amount of preparatory reading required.


Applications to participate in the programme should include:


- a 300 word outline of your research (highlighting its relevance to the Commodities and Culture network research strands)
- a CV

and be sent to Alison Wood at commculture@kcl.ac.uk by 5 May 2011.


A small number of bursaries for travel within the UK are available: if you would like to be considered, please say so in your application.


(N.B. Early Career Researchers should be within 3 years of receiving the PhD.)


http://www.commoditiesandculture.org/events.html