IHR seminars > Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900

Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900

Convenors: Catherine Hall (UCL), Keith McClelland (UCL), Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam University), Zoe Laidlaw (RHUL)

Venue: Wolfson Room, IHR

Time: Thursday, 5.30pm
Spring Term 2010
21 January Inge Dornan (Brunel)
'Unspeakable Things Spoken': Sex and Violence in Britain's Slave Colonies, confessions of the Parliamentary Investigation into the Transatlantic Slave Trade
4 February Gretchen Gerzina (Oxford)
The Black Wife in the British Novel: From Inkle and Yarico to Zadie Smith
Please note: this session has, with regret, had to be postponed, at short notice.
18 February Erica Wald (LSE)
Problematic bibis and 'disorderly' European women: gender and the regulation of space in the Indian cantonment in the early nineteenth century
4 March Shompa Lahiri (QMUL)
Seeing Subject and Walking Zoo: Indian Women Tourists in 1930s Europe
18 March A roundtable on
What difference does gender make to empire?
Jo McDonagh (KCL), Sonya Rose (Michigan), John Tosh (Roehampton)

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