IHR seminars > Imperial and World History
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, 5.00pm
Our theme for the 2011-12 academic year will be Violence. In the other two semesters of 2011-12, we will have contributions to the seminar from, among others, James Belich (Oxford) and Konstantin Dierks (Indiana). There may be spaces free for others: please contact the convenors if you would wish to offer a paper.
Intercalated with the Imperial & World History seminar is the Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers Workshop.
Colonialism / 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
| 23 January | Laleh Khalili (SOAS) The Uses of Happiness in Counterinsurgencies
Venue: ST274/5, 2nd floor, Stewart House |
| 30 January | Mark Condos (Cambridge) 'Punitive anthropology' and the policing of the North-West Frontier of British India, 1849-1910
Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop |
| 6 February | Toby Green (KCL) Discussion on his new book on the early history of the African slave trade: The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589
Venue: ST274/5, 2nd floor, Stewart House With responses from José Lingna Nafafe and Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias PF (Birmingham) |
| 13 February | Yolana Pringle (Oxford) Beyond the state: responses to mental illness in Uganda, 1894-1972
Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop |
| 20 February | Konstantin Dierks (Indiana and Oxford) A World Safe Enough for Imperialism? American Perceptions of Danger and Violence in the World, 1789-1869
Venue: ST274/5, 2nd floor, Stewart House
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| 27 February | Christianne Gates (University of East Anglia) A Controlled Exit? Anglo-Turkish Negotiations and Cyprus, 1956-7
Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop |
| 5 March | Richard Seymour (LSE) 'Humanitarian intervention' and Liberal Imperialism
Venue: ST274/5, 2nd floor, Stewart House |
| 12 March | Deanne van Tol (Queen's University) The Women of Kenya Speak: Imperial Politics, Voluntary Work, and the Construction of Colonial Welfare, 1930-50
Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop |
| 19 March | Caroline Elkins (Harvard) 'W' Marks the Spot: Document Destruction and Removal at the End of the British Empire
Venue: Woburn Suite G22/26, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
| 26 March | Brian Gettler (Université du Québec à Montréal) Money and the Changing Nature of Colonial Space in Northern Quebec: Aboriginal Peoples, Capital, and the State during the Nineteenth Century
Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop |
