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)