Imperial and World History Seminar Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop

An informal forum for postgraduates and new researchers to meet and present finished pieces or works in progress on any aspect of colonial or postcolonial history.

Venue: Online- via Zoom
Time: Monday:17:30
Convenors: Katherine Ambler (KCL) and Jacob Smith (Queen Mary)

About the seminar

Please send any enquiries to: cpnewresearchers@gmail.com

An informal forum for postgraduates and new researchers to meet and present finished pieces or works in progress on any aspect of colonial or postcolonial history. The workshop features papers that address specific methodological, interdisciplinary or theoretical concerns as well as colonial/postcolonial case studies from throughout the world. The workshop draws an audience from scholars at different stages of their research.

Term 1- Autumn 2020

28 sep 2020

Fragments to Perpetuate Whiteness: Colonialism, Modernist Architecture, and Racializing the Built Environment

Robert Flahive (Virginia Tech )

Online- via Zoom

12 oct 2020

A Struggle for the Soul of Malaya: New Perspectives on Decolonisation and Nation-Making on the Road to Merdeka [Independence]

Bernard Keo (Monash)

Online- via Zoom

26 oct 2020

Science between law and practice: Anatomy regulations in the British Empire

Sohini Chattopadhyay (Columbia)

Online- via Zoom

09 nov 2020

Madness, Trauma and Medicine: Psychiatry in the Indian Army during the Second World War (1939-1945) / Rehabilitating refugee women in Partition’s aftermath: Bombay’s Home Industries, 1947-1958

Satarupa Lahiri (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Sandip Kana (KCL)

Online- via Zoom

23 nov 2020

A is for Austrian: Enemy Aliens and the Uneven Logic(s) of Internment across the British Colonies

Ryan Cheuk Him Sun (University of British Columbia)

Online- via Zoom

07 dec 2020

A Miskitu Loan in the City of London? Revealing Indigenous Peoples in Early 19th-Century Transatlantic Trade and Finance

Damian Clavel (Institute of Historical Research / University of Oxford)

Online- via Zoom

Term 2- Winter 2020

11 jan 2021

Colonial Recognition? Utilisation of Dutch Land and Population Registers as Legal Documents in Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka

Luc Bulten (Radboud Institute for Culture & History)

Online- via Zoom

25 jan 2021

‘Historicising Military Humanitarianism: Relief efforts by UN peacekeepers in post-colonial Cyprus, 1964-1966’

Margot Tudor (University of Manchester)

Online- via Zoom

08 feb 2021

Alexander Dalrymple and the 1762 Manila expedition: His real role in the war / Inter-regnum Reformers and Perpetual Slavery: The Case of the Hartlib Circle

Erwin Fernández Soriano (Universidad de Salamanca ), Norris Saakwa-Mante (King’s College London)

Online- via Zoom

22 feb 2021

Corporeal Chronologies and the Entanglements of Colonial and Postcolonial Time

Patrícia Martins Marcos (UC San Diego)

Online- via Zoom

Imperial and World History Seminar Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop

About the seminar

Term 1- Autumn 2020

Fragments to Perpetuate Whiteness: Colonialism, Modernist Architecture, and Racializing the Built Environment

A Struggle for the Soul of Malaya: New Perspectives on Decolonisation and Nation-Making on the Road to Merdeka [Independence]

Science between law and practice: Anatomy regulations in the British Empire

Madness, Trauma and Medicine: Psychiatry in the Indian Army during the Second World War (1939-1945) / Rehabilitating refugee women in Partition’s aftermath: Bombay’s Home Industries, 1947-1958

A is for Austrian: Enemy Aliens and the Uneven Logic(s) of Internment across the British Colonies

A Miskitu Loan in the City of London? Revealing Indigenous Peoples in Early 19th-Century Transatlantic Trade and Finance

Term 2- Winter 2020

Colonial Recognition? Utilisation of Dutch Land and Population Registers as Legal Documents in Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka

‘Historicising Military Humanitarianism: Relief efforts by UN peacekeepers in post-colonial Cyprus, 1964-1966’

Alexander Dalrymple and the 1762 Manila expedition: His real role in the war / Inter-regnum Reformers and Perpetual Slavery: The Case of the Hartlib Circle

Corporeal Chronologies and the Entanglements of Colonial and Postcolonial Time

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