Workshop: Empires Come Home

Date: Friday 10 July 
Time: 09:00-17:00
Venue: Rothermere American Institute 

To register please contact: tom.arnold-forster@rai.ac.uk 

 

Programme: 

 

9:00 Welcome and coffee

9:30 Kevin Duong, “The Empire and the Unconscious: Martinique-Paris, 1932-1934.” Comment: Merve Fejzula

10:15 Erin Pineda, “What Was Intercommunalism?” Comment: Sam Klug

11:00 Coffee break

11:15 Faridah Zaman, “Parallel Lives: Europe, South Asia, and the Politics of Historical Time.” Comment: Jessica Patterson

12:00 Merve Fejzula, “Evanescent Endurance: A Century of Uli Design.” Comment: Kevin Duong

12:45 Lunch and walk over to the Pitt-Rivers Museum to see Uli design collections.

14:00 Keynote: Sam Klug, “A Colony Within? Debating Race, Class, and Empire in Midcentury America.”

15:00 Coffee break

15:15 Jessica Patterson, '"What can we expect from a grand coalition of... the two Houses, but that, when they feel their own strength, they will plunder the East, and enslave this nation at their leisure?” Corruption, Parliamentary Reform and the East India Company at the End of Enlightenment.’ Comment: Robert Fletcher

16:00 Ben Tan, “The Instability of Imperial Democracy: British Political Thought, 1885- 1914.” Comment: Ben Jackson

17:00 Drinks & dinner (location TBC)