The ‘Bordering on Brexit: Global Britain and the Embers of Empire‘ Conference was held last weekend at Garrison Library, Gibraltar. Professor Richard Toye, Director of Exeter’s Centre for Imperial and Global History, interviews Prof. Astrid Rasch (NTNU) about the conference and the ‘Embers of Empire’ project.
Autumn Term CIGH seminar schedule
The Autumn Term is now upon us, and so please find the Centre for Imperial and Global History seminar schedule below for your calendars.
Please direct any inquiries about attending to the seminar convenor, Dr. Emily Bridger.
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Date and Location
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Speaker
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Paper Title
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26 September (Week 1)
Amory B315, 4:30-6pm
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Katie Natanel
(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies)
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‘Unruly Affects: Tracing Love and Melancholia in Israeli Settler Colonialism’
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10 October (Week 3)
Amory B315,
4:30-6pm
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Amanda Nettleback
(University College Dublin)
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‘Colonial Violence and the Limits of the Law’
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24 October (Week 5)
Amory B315,
4:30-6pm
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Sonia Wigh
(University of Exeter)
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‘Sex, Secrets, and Savant: Exploring Sexualities in Early Modern South Asia (1650-1750)’
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7 November (Week 7)
Amory B315,
4:30-6pm
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Ljubica Spaskovska
(University of Exeter)
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‘Constructing the “City of International Solidarity”: Non-aligned Internationalism, the United Nations and Visions of Development, Modernism and Solidarity, 1955-1975’
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14 November (Week 8)
Amory B315,
4:30-6pm
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Gabriel Gorodetsky
(All Souls College, Oxford)
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The Myth of the Grand Alliance in World War II
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21 November (Week 9)
Amory B315,
4:30-6pm
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Michael Goebel
(Graduate Institute Geneva)
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‘Patchwork Cities: Urban Ethnic Segregation in the Global South in the Age of Steam’
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5 December (Week 11)
Room TBA,
4:30-6pm
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Monica Ronchi
(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies)
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‘Settler colonialism and the representation of indigeneity: the cases of French Algeria and Israel/Palestine’
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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen
From when America needed Syria to fashion rules of the Colonial Atlantic, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
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Shooting Tigers in Early 20th-Century India
Rajarshi Mitra
Indian Institute of Information Technology
During my trip to Exeter to attend the Britain and the World Conference earlier this year, I discovered that the Royal Bengal Tiger on display in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) was a gift from King George V (1865 – 1936). Exeter’s Bengal tiger was one of 39 tigers the King had killed during his hunting excursion in Nepalese Terai in 1911 – the year of his grand Coronation Durbar in India. The accompanying plaque states that the King presented tiger skins to British museums so that visitors who have never seen a tiger could meet one face-to-face. Like any responsible museum, RAMM’s curators have taken care to send a nuanced message through its natural history exhibits. They raise our environmental guilt, they remind us of nature’s destruction in the hands of man. Tiger hunts in India have a rich history of their own, and that Exeter has somehow been made part of that history had me intrigued. Continue reading “Shooting Tigers in Early 20th-Century India”
This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen
From the global ways of white supremacy to the Stalinist Truman Show, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history. Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History”
The Weight of the Past in Franco-British Relations
How does one measure the influence that history has on contemporary affairs and issues? Is it possible to fashion some kind of litmus test, through which we can assess the impact that perceptions of the past have had on the conceptualisation of national and transnational policies? It is questions like these that the AHRC research project ‘The Weight of the Past in Franco-British Relations’ will explore over the next three years. Led by Professor Peter Jackson (University of Glasgow) alongside co-investigators Dr Rachel Utley (University of Leeds) and Dr Rogelia Pastor-Castro (Strathclyde University) and post-doctoral research assistant Dr Rachel Chin (University of Glasgow), this project will assess the role that representations of the past have played in Franco-British relations since 1815. More specifically, it will seek to understand how history, or at least subjective constructions of history, has shaped policy debates in general and prospects for Franco-British co-operation in particular. Continue reading “The Weight of the Past in Franco-British Relations”
This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen
From linking the Irish Revolution and the First World War to today’s lessons from the Warsaw ghetto, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
Continue reading “This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History”
