IHR Seminars: Imperial and World History

IHR Seminars: Imperial and World History


Convenors: Richard Drayton (KCL), Sarah Stockwell (KCL), John Stuart (Kingston), David Todd (KCL), Jon Wilson (KCL).

Venue: As announced by each date
Time: Monday, 5.15pm

Our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year will be Economy and Society. In the other two terms of 2012-2013, we will have contributions to the seminar from, among others, Paul Kennedy (Yale), Emma Rothschild (Harvard), Jennifer Altehenger (KCL), Pernille Roge (Pittsburgh), and Tamson Pietsch (Brunel).

Intercalated with the Imperial & World History seminar is the Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers Workshop.

Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
Venue: Athlone Room 102, Senate House, South block , 1st floor
Convenors: Hilary Ingram (UCL) hilary.ingram.09@ucl.ac.uk, Rob Waters (Queen Mary) r.w.waters@qmul.ac.uk, Feriel Kisson (KCL) feriel.kissoon@kcl.ac.uk, David Winks (Queen Mary) davidwinks250@hotmail.com

Autumn Term 2012 Date Seminar details

4 October Jon Lawrence (Cambridge), Jeremy Krikler (Essex), Camilla Schofield at UEA, with a response from Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary)
Memories of Empire: A Roundtable on Bill Schwarz's 'The White Man's World'
Joint session with the Modern British History Seminar and the Reconfiguring the British History Seminar
Please note: this session is being held on a Thursday, in room 349 (third floor of Senate House).

8 October Patrick O'Brien (LSE)
Imperial Regimes and Mercantilist States in Narratives of Economic Divergence between the Occident and the Orient
Court Room, Senate House, first floor

15 October Tom Bentley (University of Sussex)
Reshaping the past: the lingering colonial present
Gary Blank (London School of Economics)
Whose Victim, Whose Struggle? Famine Iconography and Contested Representations of Biafra in Britain (1968-70)
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop

22 October Maxine Berg (Warwick)
Locations of Global History: Manufacturing Diversity in 18th and 21st
Torrington Room (104), Senate House, first floor

29 October Peter Mitchell (Queen Mary, University of London)
'The Eye of History': the India Office Records, the Hakluyt Society, and the fantasy of the all-seeing imperial archive
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop
Please note: this session begins at 17:30

5 November Lanver Mak (ICS)
Britons vs Britons: Class, crime and conflict among British non-elites in occupied Egypt, 1882-1922
Court Room, Senate House, first floor

12 November Andreas Heil (Leibnitz Institute of European History)
Missionary self-understandings in shifting circumstances. Missionaries in post-1947 India
Angharad Eyre (Queen Mary, University of London)
Converting Emotions: Possession and Power in Female Missionaries’ Writing about Native Converts
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop

19 November Catherine Hall (UCL), Dan Matlin (KCL) and Anthony Pereira (KCL), with responses from Francisco Bethencourt (KCL) and Adrian Pearce (KCL) and contributors to the book.
Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World: A Roundtable
Torrington Room (104), Senate House, first floor

26 November Joanna Frew (University of Essex)
Identity and Improvement in Eighteenth Century South India
Adrian Thomas (King's College London)
Calcutta Botanic Garden as an imperial landscape
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop

10 December Sabrina Rahman (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Empires of Design: Austria, Britain, and the Global Consumption of Modernity, 1851-1934
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop

For updates please see the IHR website http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/

Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop

The Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop is currently inviting abstract submissions for the 2012-13 academic year

 

"Established in 2008, the workshop is designed to provide a forum for postgraduates and new researchers to gather and present their work in an informal and friendly environment. Seminars run on a bi-weekly basis at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), intercalated with the Imperial and World History series (www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/124). Papers are generally 25-30 minutes long, followed by discussion.

 

We welcome papers on any aspect of colonial or postcolonial history, and encourage new and interdisciplinary approaches (eg. anthropology, art, history, geography, literature). Potential paper topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Borders, Encounters, Conflict Zones
• Family, Kinship, Childhood, and Memory
• Bodies, Health, Welfare
• Sexualities, Genders, and Intimacies
• Indigenous Histories and Encounters
• Representation and Performance
• Environment, Social and Spatial Landscapes
• Diasporas, Migration and Identities
• Labour, Commodities, and Consumption
• Transnational Comparisons/Comparative Empires
• Technological and Scientific Advances (eg. medicine, communications, information exchange)
• Caribbean, Latin America, and Afro/Francophone Worlds
• Methodology, Current Issues in Colonial/Postcolonial Studies

Anyone interested in presenting their work, whether finished pieces or works in progress, is encouraged to submit an abstract of between 250-350 words to cpnewresearchers@gmail.com.
 

For the first time, this year the IHR is offering to podcast seminars through their website (http://www.history.ac.uk/digital/podcasts). If you are interested in having your paper recorded, please indicate with your abstract submission."