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Imperial and World History

Convenors: Frank Bongiorno (KCL), Richard Drayton (KCL), Sujit Sivasundaram (LSE), Sarah Stockwell (KCL), John Stuart (Kingston), Jon Wilson (KCL).

Venue: Germany Room, IHR

Time: Monday, 5.00pm

The seminar usually meets fortnightly on Mondays at 5pm in the Germany room of the IHR. If you would like to receive papers that are pre-circulated or be added to the mailing list, please contact Richard Drayton

Colonialism / Postcolonial new researchers' workshop
Convenors: Emily Manktelow (King's College London), Rachel Bright (King's & LSE), Esme Cleall (University College London), Anna Gust (UCL) and Bronwen Everill (KCL)
Spring Term 2010
18 January P. J. Marshall (KCL)
Yet another look at the 'Loyalist' exodus at the end of the American War
25 January Simone Borgstede (UCL)
All is Race. Benjamin Disraeli's mapping of the empire?
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers Workshop
1 February Ulrike Hilleman (Imperial College)
The networks of British imperial expansion and the study of Chinese, 1760-1840
8 February Ian Barrett (KCL)
Investigating Slavery: Pro-slavery lobbyists and British parliamentary investigations into the slave trade c.1787-1807
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers Workshop
15 February Liz Harvey (UCL)
Metropolitan and colonial discourses of respectability and motherhood: philanthropy in Birmingham and Sydney, 1860- 1914
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers Workshop
22 February Bill Schwartz (Queen Mary)
Witness to the end of the colonial empires: James Baldwin and Richard Wright
1 March Benjamin Mountford (Exeter College, University of Oxford)
Australia's Empire and the Chinese Question
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers Workshop
8 March Jon Wilson (KCL)
Plassey and the Forgetting of Passion: Remembering and Forgetting the Conquest of India

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