The Monarchy, the Commonwealth and the Media

The Monarchy, the Commonwealth and the Media

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was the first ever to be televised, a decision the new Queen actively encouraged. 19 million viewers watched the ceremony in the UK, over half of the adult population. Within five years, television ownership had risen six-fold. The shedding of media light on the mystery of monarchy was sometimes engineered and sometimes accidental – but always remorseless. Alongside the triumphs, there have been the dark days of the death of Princess Diana, ‘Annus Horribilis’, and the hacking of royal phones. Can the monarchy survive its dealings with the media – or is that relationship the secret of its survival?

In conversation ...
CHARLES ANSON CVO (former Press Secretary to the Queen)
TOM CORBY MVO (former Court Correspondent of the Press Association)
KESHINI NAVARATNAM (former BBC World TV presenter)

Tuesday 20 March at 5.30pm

The Senate Room, 1st Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU

ALL WELCOME (booking strongly advised - please email chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk)

Part of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ Diamond Jubilee series, reflecting on the role of Queen Elizabeth II as Head of the Commonwealth and Sovereign of the Commonwealth Realms

Genealogies of Colonial Violence Conference, University of Cambridge, UK, 1-2 June 2012

Genealogies of Colonial Violence: Conference held at the Centre of South Asian Studies and the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge, U.K.
June 1-2, 2012

This two-day conference seeks to move past the standard debates that continue to dominate both public discourses and much scholarly research regarding violence and colonialism. This conference aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers to suggest alternative interpretations, theoretical approaches, and future avenues of research relating to violence and colonialism. Proposals are welcome from established academics, early-career researchers and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences that work on colonialism and its postcolonial legacies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The conference will feature a keynote address by Professor Achille Mbembe (University of Witwatersrand).

Potential avenues of exploration include, but are no means limited to:
- How can we use the colonial experience to rethink and refashion categories of thought dominant in the western academy and its established disciplines? How do colonial experiences subvert a notion like sovereignty?
- How ideas of the human informed colonial violence.
- Universalism, ambivalence, and the colonial encounter.
- Was, and in what ways, colonial subjugation self-validating?
- Whether the recent historiographical turn to discourses and representations has come at the expense of the material. How violence constituted relationships between colonial subjects, the market, and global capitalism.
- Colonialism, violence, and the production of modern political subjects.
- Cultural and political meanings of the excess inherent to all violence.
- How did foreign control of the state produce alternative constructions of the political? That is, how was the right to take life and to protect life thought beyond the boundaries of the state? Was death rather than the protection of life the central category of political thought in the colonial context?
- Ways to rethink the relationships between violence and colonial law.
- How to write an intellectual history of colonial violence.
- The legacies of colonial violence and the making of a postcolonial order.
- How to read state archives of violence and colonialism.
- Aesthetics, language, and violence.


Paper proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent to Sunil Purushotham and Derek Elliott at colonialviolence@gmail.com no later than April 10, 2012. Successful applicants will be notified no later than April 15, 2012. For more information and updates, please visit us at:

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/research/conferences/genealogies-colonial-violence

Bangladesh Journals Online

Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) provides free access to a collection of over 75 academic journals published in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) is a service to provide access to Bangladesh published research, and increase worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship.


The journals included cover a range of topics, are scholarly in content and contain original research and are peer reviewed. While there is an emphasis upon scientific topics, there is also coverage of health and development topics, and this resource is recommended for discovering articles which may have been missed by the more mainstream journal indexes.
 
The journals are listed alphabetically, to help researchers find journals of relevance, and allow browsing of the journals. The website also has a sophisticated searching tool, to help researchers locate articles of interest and relevance to their area of study. Email alerts are available to provide a reminder service, to alert researchers to newly-published issues from their selected titles. Each journal has its own home page, where researchers can find information about the aims and scope of the journal, and information on how to submit articles to each journal. Researchers should also take note of the Research Support Tool which accompanies the abstracts of each article. The links from the red box to the right of each Abstract screen are designed to support the reading and use of the abstracts. Tools offered include information about the authors, quick and easy links to allow identification of further articles from other websites, definition of difficult terms using online dictionaries (simply click twice on any word in the abstract), and the automatic generation of citations to the article using "Capture Cite."


Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL) was initiated in June 2007 and officially launched in September 2007. It is a project supported by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication (INASP). It aims to promote the awareness and use of Bangladesh-published journals in all disciplines by providing access to tables of contents (TOCs), abstracts and full text on the Internet. BanglaJOL uses the Open Journals System created by the Public Knowledge Project based in Canada.

The Journals Online project is part of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERii) which provides support to researchers around the world through access to information and training and support for the use of information.
 
Journals currently included in Bangladesh Journals OnLine are:

Anwer Khan Modern Medical College Journal
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal
Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Research
Bangladesh Journal of Anatomy
Bangladesh Journal of Animal Science
Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics
Bangladesh Journal of Botany
Bangladesh Journal of Child Health
Bangladesh Journal of Genetics and Biotechnology
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science
Bangladesh Journal of Microbiology
Bangladesh Journal of Neuroscience
Bangladesh Journal of Nutrition
Bangladesh Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Bangladesh Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
Bangladesh Journal of Pathology
Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology
Bangladesh Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Bangladesh Journal of Plant Breeding and Genetics
Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy
Bangladesh Journal of Plastic Surgery
Bangladesh Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research
Bangladesh Journal of Scientific Research
Bangladesh Journal of Veterinary Medicine
Bangladesh Journal of Zoology
Bangladesh Liver Journal
Bangladesh Medical Journal
Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin
Bangladesh Oncology Journal
Bangladesh Veterinarian
Cardiovascular Journal
Chemical Engineering Research Bulletin
Daffodil International University Journal of Science and Technology
Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences
Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics
Dhaka University Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Faridpur Medical College Journal
Ibrahim Cardiac Medical Journal
GANIT: Journal of Bangladesh Mathematical Society
Ibrahim Medical College Journal
IIUC Studies
International Current Pharmaceutical Journal
International Journal of Hepatology
International Journal of Natural Sciences
Journal of Agriculture & Rural Development
Journal of Armed Forces Medical College, Bangladesh
Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
Journal of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons
Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners
Journal of Bangladesh Society of Physiologist
Journal of Bio-Science
Journal of Business and Technology (Dhaka)
Journal of Chemical Engineering
Journal of Chittagong Medical College Teachers' Association
Journal of Dhaka Medical College
Journal of Electrical Engineering
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Journal of Life and Earth Science
Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Journal of Medicine
Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Journal of Scientific Research
Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University
Journal of the Bangladesh Association of Young Researchers
Journal of the Bangladesh Chemical Society
Journal of the Bangladesh Society of Anaesthesiologists
Medicine Today
MIST Journal: GALAXY (DHAKA)
Mymensingh Medical Journal
Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology
Pulse
Stamford Journal of Microbiology
Stamford Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
TAJ: Journal of Teachers Association
The Agriculturists
University Heart Journal
University Journal of Zoology, Rajshahi University

Full-time, three year PhD studentship available from 1 October 2012: Caribbean Writers

One full-time, three year PhD studentship available from 1 October 2012 based at The Open University and the British Library

The Faculty of Arts of The Open University has a long history of innovative engagement with museums, libraries and galleries. As a result of an exciting new partnership between the British Library and The Open University seeking to consider the theme of The Arts and their Audiences¹, we are able to offer an AHRC studentship for doctoral work in English Language and Literature. While proposals will be accepted for any project seeking to utilise the British Library¹s collections to illuminate the relationship between literature and its reception/audience, we would be particularly interested in receiving applications for work drawing on the important, recently acquired archives of James Berry and Andrew Salkey. Both of these archives are rich in documentation illustrative of the impact of Caribbean writers on Britain. Proposals which seek to exploit the Library's collection of audio-recordings would also be welcome.

You will be supervised by a specialist team in the Department of English at The Open University headed by Professor Susheila Nasta and by curators in the Department of English and Drama at the British Library.

Further details of research in the Faculty of Arts at The Open University can be found at http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/research/index.shtml For details on how to apply, please see the further particulars at http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment
Applications are through the standard Open University research degree application form online at
http://www.open.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/index.php For advice on the applications procedure, contact Lyn Archer in the Research Degrees Team (l.archer@open.ac.uk; 01908 653806) or the Department of English: 01908 652092 (Bronwen Sharp at b.m.sharp@open.ac.uk).

Please note that this studentship is subject to the eligibility regulations for AHRC awards:  http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf Closing date: 31 March 2012. Interviews will be held during the week commencing 23 April 2012. It is expected that the studentship will start in October 2012.

The Slave Business and Its Material and Moral Hinterlands in Continental Europe

CONFERENCE: The Slave Business and Its Material and Moral Hinterlands in Continental Europe 
International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, April 20-22, 2012


The history of transatlantic slavery is one of the most active and fruitful fields of historical research worldwide. As scholarship in this field is increasingly global, it opens up unique possibilities for international collaboration. More particularly, the most recent research which looks beyond the familiar Atlantic axis and the principal slave-trading nations has made clear the scope for new kinds of comparative and trans-regional studies. The conference revisits a number of key themes relevant to the relationship between slavery (outside Europe) and the dynamics of (European) metropolitan society, giving specific attention to developments in Continental Europe and in particular to the German-speaking regions. These themes include the impact of the slave business on capitalist development and the development of discourses around slavery and abolition in the public sphere. Behind that there lie questions about private conscience – in the first instance about what was known and knowable about the implication of individual economic actors in one of the earliest globalised businesses. By focusing our attention on regions which were physically and politically distant not only from the mines and plantations of the Americas but also from Europe’s ‘slave capitals’ like Liverpool, London, Nantes and Bordeaux, we hope not only to assemble new data and thereby better understand the material ‘reach’ of transatlantic slavery, but also to address wider questions about the ways in which location/space structures knowledge, values and interest by applying them to the particularly dramatic case of slavery in what are still seen as marginal places. How does the geographical status of ‘hinterland’ relate to conditions of economic and moral/discursive interchange?

The conference begins with a keynote lecture by Catherine Hall, Director of the UCL/ESRC project on British stakeholders in slavery and post-abolition compensation, and ends with a session on memory work in teaching, public art and public and community history.

Confirmed speakers

Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen): Bremen and the slave business: Notes on a Hermeneutics of Absence, and a Pedagogy of the Trace Peter Haenger (Basel): Basel and the slave trade: from profiteers to missionaries Dan Hopkins (University of Missouri at Kansas City): Julius von Rohr, an Enlightenment scientist of the plantation Atlantic Jokinen (Hamburg): The Slave Trader Heinrich Carl Schimmelmann and Cultures of Remembrance in Wandsbek: Vestiges, Myths and Protests Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois at Urbana): A German Diary of a Slaving Journey in the 1690s Jochen Meissner (Humboldt University Berlin): Southern European and Latin American Responses to British Abolitionism Kwame Nimako (University of Amsterdam): The Peace of Westphalia, Slavery and the Berlin Conference: A Continuum Anne-Sophie Overkamp (Viadrina University, Frankfurt a.d.O): The German backcountry and the Atlantic exchange: The participation of textile merchants from the Wupper valley in the Atlantic trade, 1760-1810 Allan Potofsky (University of Paris-Diderot): Paris as Atlantic Hinterland, from the Ancien Régime to the French Revolution Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire): Chair / comment Barbara Richiger (Cooperaxion - Bern): A Swiss database of slave-trade stakeholders Alexandra Robinson (University of Liverpool): A case study of the Earle family’s Leghorn business 1751 -1808 Klaus Weber (Viadrina University, Frankfurt a.d.O): ‘All the Negroes cloathed with German Linen’: Central European Implications with the Atlantic Slave Trade, 15th-19th Centuries



For full details, visit the conference website at http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/Hinterlands/

New books - February 2012

New books added to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library last month, include the following titles covering as diverse topics as Canadian political biography, copyright, minority rights in India, sport in Africa, the history of sexuality in Australia, Scotland and the Empire, citizenship, democracy and sustainable economic growth:

Anyanwu, Ogechi Emmanuel, The politics of access : university education and nation-building in Nigeria, 1948-2000, Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2011.


Atangana, Martin-René, The end of French rule in Cameroon, Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2010.

Bajpai, Rochana, Debating difference : group rights and liberal democracy in India, New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Bissell, William Cunningham, Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Boateng, Boatema, The copyright thing doesn't work here : Adinkra and Kente cloth and intellectual property in Ghana, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Boraine, Alex, A country unmasked : Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Cape Town ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Branch, Daniel, Kenya : between hope and despair, 1963-2011, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.

Bueltmann, Tanja, Scottish ethnicity and the making of New Zealand society, 1850-1930, Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2011.

Cheru , Fantu and Cyril Obi (eds), The rise of China and India in Africa : challenges, opportunities and critical interventions, Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; London ; New York : Zed Books, 2010.

Cornelissen, Scarlett and Albert Grundlingh (eds), Sport past and present in South Africa, London : Routledge, 2012.

Featherstone, Lisa, Let's talk about sex : histories of sexuality in Australia from Federation to the pill, Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Feminist Alternatives, My dream is to be bold : our work to end patriarchy, Cape Town ; Oxford : Pambazuka Press, 2011.

French, Patrick, India : a portrait, London : Allen Lane, 2011.

Ganguly, Sumit and Rahul Mukherji, India since 1980, Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Gott, Richard, Britain's empire : resistance, repression and revolt, London ; New York : Verso Books, 2011.

Gwyn, Richard, John A. : the man who made us : the life and times of John A. Macdonald, Toronto : Random House Canada, 2007-2011. (2 volumes)

Heinrich, V. Finn (ed), CIVICUS global survey of the state of civil society : Civil Society Index Project, 2003-2006 phase, Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, 2007-

Horn, Bernd, From Cold War to New Millennium : the history of the Royal Canadian Regiment, 1953-2008, Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2011.

Johnson, Krista and Sean Jacobs ( eds), Encyclopedia of South Africa, Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2011.

Karlsson, Bengt G., Unruly hills : a political ecology of India's northeast, New York : Berghahn Books, c2011.

Lamming, George, The George Lamming reader : the aesthetics of decolonisation, edited by Anthony Bogues, Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.

LeBas, Adrienne, From protest to parties : party-building and democratization in Africa, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Lynch, Brian and Graham Hassall (eds), Resilience in the Pacific : addressing the critical issues : proceedings of a conference held in Wellington, New Zealand, 16-17 February 2011, Wellington : New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIIA), Victoria University of Wellington, 2011.

Lynch, Gabrielle, I say to you : ethnic politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya, Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.

McCartney, Matthew, Pakistan : the political economy of growth, stagnation and the state, 1951-2009, London : Routledge, 2011.

MacKenzie, John M. and T.M. Devine. Scotland and the British Empire, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Ntumazah, Ndeh, Ndeh Ntumazah : a conversational auto-biography, edited and with an introduction, Linus T. Asong & Simon Ndeh Chi, Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research and Publishing, 2011.

Poliandri, Simone, First nations, identity, and reserve life : the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia, Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Proudfoot, Lindsay J. and Dianne Hall, Imperial spaces : placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia, Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press , 2011.

Rawat, Ramnarayan S., Reconsidering untouchability : Chamars and Dalit history in North India, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Ricatti, Francesco, Embodying migrants : Italians in postwar Australia, Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.

Reno, William, Warfare in independent Africa, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Ryan, Orla, Chocolate nations : living and dying for cocoa in West Africa, London : Zed , 2011.

Saikia, Pahi, Ethnic mobilisation and violence in Northeast India, New Delhi ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Sanders, Peter, 'Throwing down white man' : Cape rule and misrule in colonial Lesotho, 1871-1884, Pontypool, Wales : Merlin Press, 2011.

Schwarz, Bill, The white man's world, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Srinivasan, T. N., Growth, sustainability, and India's economic reforms, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Steel, Frances, Oceania under steam : sea transport and the cultures of colonialism, c. 1870-1914, Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.

Tarimo, Aquiline, Ethnicity, citizenship and state in Eastern Africa, Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa, 2011

Thorat, Sukhadeo, Dalits in India : search for a common destiny, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2009.

Toor, Saadia, The state of Islam : culture and Cold War politics in Pakistan, London : Pluto, 2011.

Wilson, David A., Thomas D'Arcy McGee (2 volumes), Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008-2011. Dianne Hall. (Contents v. 1. Passion, reason, and politics, 1825-1857 -- v. 2. The extreme moderate, 1857-1868.)

World Bank, Poverty and social exclusion in India, Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2011.

Diamond Jubilee Seminar ‘The monarchy, the Commonwealth and the media’, 20 March 2012

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is pleased to announce the second seminar in its Diamond Jubilee Series: ‘The monarchy, the Commonwealth and the media’ will be held on 20 March 2012.

The shedding of media light on the mystery of the monarchy has sometimes been engineered and sometimes accidental – but always remorseless. Alongside the triumphs, there have been the dark days of the death of Princess Diana, ‘Annus Horribilis’, and the hacking of royal phones. This seminar asks: can the monarchy survive its dealings with the media – or is that relationship the secret of its survival? The panellists discussing the relationship between the monarchy and the media will be Charles Anson CVO (former Press Secretary to the Queen), Tom Corby MVO (former Court Correspondent of the Press Association), and Keshini Navaratnam (former BBC World TV presenter).

The seminar will take place on Tuesday 20 March at 5.30pm in The Senate Room, Senate House, Malet Street WC1E 7HU. All are welcome; the seminar is free to attend. Booking is essential as places are limited, please email chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk

The Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series was launched by the Chancellor of the University of London, the Princess Royal, on 11 January 2012. The series, which marks the Diamond Jubilee Year by exploring the relationship between the monarchy and the Commonwealth, will run throughout 2012. Information on forthcoming seminars will be posted to the Institute’s events pages.