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Autumn 2024 CIGH Research Seminar Schedule

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The co-directors of Exeter’s Centre for Imperial and Global History (CIGH), Dr. Chris Sandal-Wilson and Dr. Rebecca Williams, wish to welcome our new students and colleagues, and are really excited to begin a new year of CIGH seminars.

All seminars take place on Wednesdays 3.30pm-5.00pm, with the option to join remotely.

Reminders, links, and abstracts will be sent a week in advance of each seminar to the CIGH mailing list. To be added, please email Chris and Beccy at c.w.sandal-wilson@exeter.ac.uk and r.williams2@exeter.ac.uk.

WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER [Week 2]                Welcome (Back) Social

                        Amory Senior Common Room

Join us for an informal gathering to mark the start of the academic year, welcome new researchers, and catch up with old friends. Drinks and nibbles provided!

WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER [Week 4]              Archives: Digital, Material, Social

Room B310, Amory

Join our panel of expert historians – Martin Thomas, Nelly Bekus, and David Thackeray – as they reflect on the archive as a digital, material, and social phenomenon, and offer tips for working in the archives of imperial and global history.

            WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER [Week 8]           Meet the Children at War Team

Room B310, Amory

Come along to hear about the research Chessie Baldwin, Pamela Nzabampema, Richard Raber, and Phoebe Shambaugh will be doing as part of the Children at War project.

            WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER [Week 10]        Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots

Forum Seminar Room 6

Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots is a community heritage and oral history project focused on diverse and multicultural histories in Devon. Hilda Tosfor will be joining us to talk about the project – all welcome!

WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER [Week 12]         Postgraduate Research Symposium

Room B310, Amory

As always, we’ll see out the term on a high note: join us as post-graduate researchers working on Imperial and Global History at Exeter share their work in progress.

Autumn Term @ExeterCIGH Virtual Seminar Schedule

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The Autumn Term is now upon us, and so please find the Centre for Imperial and Global History virtual seminar schedule below for your calendars.

Please direct any inquiries about attending to the seminar convenor, Dr Lyubi Spaskovska. 

Date (Term 1)

Speakers 

Paper Title 

23rd September 2020 (Week 1), 15:30h

Nandini Chatterjee (University of Exeter), in conversation with Gajendra Singh (University of Exeter)

Book launch: Negotiating Mughal Law a Family of Landlords Across Three Indian Empires (CUP, 2020)

7th October 2020 (Week 3), 15:30h

Rachel Lin (University of Exeter) &

Iacopo Adda (University of Geneva)

 Historical Memory in Sino-Russian Border Museums

21st October 2020 (Week 5), 15:30h

Joint event with Violence

Margot Tudor (University of Manchester) 

Emily Bridger (University of Exeter)

  

Beer, Boxing, and Belly-dancers: Gendering Peacekeepers in Egypt 1956-1967

‘All Township Love-making is Rough’: Rape as a Contested Concept in Apartheid-era Soweto, South Africa

4th November 2020 (Week 7), 15:30h

Crispin Bates (University of Edinburgh)

 Policing Intimacy and Queering the History of South Asian Overseas Migration in the Colonial Era

18th November 2020 (Week 9), 15:30h

Beth Rebisz (University of Reading) 

Gavin Davies (University of Exeter)

 Gendered Geographies of State Coercion in the Late-Colonial Period: Kenya, 1954-1960

‘The Eye’s Great Feast’: Food and Civility in William Darton Jr’s Games of Travelling in Asia and Europe

2nd December 2020 (Week 11), 15:30h

Nicholas Grant (University of East Anglia)

Task Force Africa: The NAACP and Black Internationalism in the 1970s