World History Workshop

World History Roundtable - Rethinking Meta-Narratives: A Conversation on Writing World History

Speaker to be confirmed.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 14:30-16:00

World History Workshop

Intimate Histories: Creole Families in Colonial Malaya

Kirsty Walker, Clare College, Cambridge.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 14:30-16:00

World History Workshop

Colour prejudice in the early modern French Empire: Comparative study of Île Bourbon, Guadeloupe and Louisiana.

Mélanie Lamotte, Robinson College, Cambridge.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 14:30-16:00

World History Workshop

The Making of Muslim Political Opinion in Bengal before the First World War

Faridah Zaman, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 14:30-16:00

World History Workshop

Racial Segregation and the Maintenance of Leprosy Sufferers from the International Settlement of Shanghai, c.1900-1945

Daniel Ham, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 14:30-16:00

World History Workshop

Benedicto K.M. Kiwanuka, Theological Imagination and the Making of Constitutional Discourse in Colonial Uganda: A Global Intellectual History

Jon Earle, Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:30-16:00

World History Workshop

Global Arenas and Local Contexts: South Asian Revolutionary Networks during the Interwar Period

Ali Raza, University of Oxford.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 14:30-16:00

World History Workshop

Indian indigo in Central Asia: interactions between the global and the local

Jagjeet Lally (Sidney Sussex College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 11:00-12:30

World History Workshop

Koronaki's story: race and respectability in colonial New Zealand, 1830-1870

Kate Stevens (Lucy Cavendish College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 11:00-12:30

World History Workshop

The Great Game askew: US Cold War policy and Pakistan's North-West Frontier, 1947-65

Elisabeth Leake (Corpus Christi College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 11:00-12:30

World History Workshop

Soldier-scholars, the military periodical press and networks of exchange within the British Empire, 1800-1860

Mark Condos (Wolfson College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 11:00-12:30

World History Workshop

‘A tangible perpetuity’: some thoughts on early photography in Burma, India, and Sri Lanka

Andrew Jarvis (Magdalene College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 11:00-12:30

World History Workshop

Lost and found: the evacuee property dispute between India and Pakistan

Pallavi Raghavan (St John’s College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

War and trade in West Africa, 1750-1775

Josh Newton (King’s College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

A mockery of justice: the practice of colonial law in the lower courts of the Burma Delta, c.1900

Jonathan Saha (SOAS).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Exile politics and French influence in the British-Egyptian Raj, 1910-1930

Max Reibman (Pembroke College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

The politics of nightlife in Alexandria and Constantinople, 1918-1923

Daniel MacArthur-Seal (St John’s College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Underwriting empire: the introduction of marine insurance to India and China during the Imperial Meridian

Adrian Leonard (Trinity Hall).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Towards an Ethnography of Madeiran Stowaways to South Africa, Mozambique & Swaziland, c. 1860-1960

Andrew MacDonald (St John's College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Print Culture, Poetry and Social Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Sri Lanka

Olaganwatte Chandasiri (University of Rajarata).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Napoleon's Things: Furniture, Law, and the Question of History in Imperial France, 1804-1814

Iris Moon (MIT).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Suppressing ‘the Gift of Krishna’: India, Piracy, and the Littoral Politics of Empire

Simon Layton (St Catharine's College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Colonialism in the Periphery's Periphery: Spanish Linguistic Policy in the New Kingdom of Granada, c.1550-1600

Juan Cobo Betancourt (Peterhouse College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Development, Citizenship and Sovereignty in Early Independent India

Sunil Purushotham (St Catharine's College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

'La lutte contre paludisme est la lutte contre les moustiques': French West Africa's War on Mosquitoes, 1903-1936

Christian Strother (Homerton College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

The Just Man Armed: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and the Origins of the Humanitarian Tradition in American Diplomacy

Charlie Laderman (St Catharine's College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

MPhil Discussion Group

Nabihah Iqbal, Max Reibman and Faridah Zaman.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Chocolate and China: Revising the Silk-for-Silver Story of the Early Modern Pacific World

Meha Priyadarshini (Columbia University).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Philosemitism, Antisemitism, Colonialism? Zionism and the British Empire

Dr James Renton (Edge Hill University).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Archeology, Collecting and Scientific Exploration in the 'Pacification of Araucania', Chile, c. 1850s-1910s

Stefanie Gänger (Darwin College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

The Revolutions of 1795 in the Lesser Antilles

Désha Osborne (Clare Hall).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

The Popular Front and French India

Akhila Yechury (Clare Hall).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

'Shaking the Pillars of Oppression': Eastern Cape Migrants and Urban Nationalist Mobilisation in Langa and Nyanga, South Africa, 1959-65

Oliver Murphy (Christ Church College, Oxford).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 13:30-15:00

World History Workshop

Invasion, unification, and the tangled relationship of Haiti and Santo Domingo 1820-22

Carrie Gibson (Peterhouse College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

The revival of "militant imperial Anglicanism"? Recruitment of Anglican clergymen for the Australian colonies, c.1788-1850

Michael Gladwin (Wolfson College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

Reassembling Babel: Translation and its Legacies in Singapore and Malaysia 1920-65

Rachel Leow (St Catharine's College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

Catastrophe and Katabasis: The 1922 Greek retreat from Turkey and classical metaphors

Naoise Mac Sweeney (Fitzwilliam College).

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

Rubber-stamping the global colour line: Respectability and Migrant Associations in South Africa c. 1900-1950

Andrew Macdonald, St. John's College.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 12 June 2009, 13:00-15:00

World History Workshop

Imperial Modernism and the contested landscape of mandatory Palestine

Jake Norris, Trinity Hall.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 05 June 2009, 13:00-15:00

World History Workshop

King Kong in London, 1961: South African Jazz in a post-imperial imaginary

Lindelwa Dalamba, St. John's College.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 29 May 2009, 13:00-15:00

World History Workshop

Porous Cities: Rangoon, Penang and Bangkok as Inter-Cultural Sites

Su Lin Lewis, Magdalene College.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 08 May 2009, 13:00-15:00

World History Workshop

Warfare in Eastern Nigeria during the first decades of the Twentieth Century

Oliver Coates.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 13 March 2009, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

A Single Day's Debauch: Venereal Disease and the Formalisation of Medicine in early nineteenth century India

Erika Wald.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 06 March 2009, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

European Colonialism: The Emergence of the Concept of "Sustainable Development" 1900-1939

Alois Maderspacher.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 27 February 2009, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

Informal Planning Discussion: The Roots of Global Civil Society Conference October 2009

Speaker to be confirmed.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 13 February 2009, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

The Problem of the Chinese Periphery: Administration and National Identity in Taiwan, 1945-1949

Tehyun Ma, Bristol.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 06 February 2009, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

Panel: Exploration in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia

Speaker to be confirmed.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 21 November 2008, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

Panel: Cultural Transmission in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia

Speaker to be confirmed.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 07 November 2008, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

Panel Discussion: Spatial Networks and Geographical Transmission of Ideas

Matt Butler and Elise Juzda.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 24 October 2008, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

Tasting Empire: a look at the colonial kitchen and the role of servants in India, Malaysia and Singapore, c.1858-1963

Cecilia Leong-Salobir, Doctoral candidate from the University of Western Australia.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Friday 10 October 2008, 12:30-14:00

World History Workshop

The Reception of Christian Democracy in Chile: A Case of "Borrowed Doctrine"?'

Joanna McGarry.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 14 June 2007, 17:00-18:30

World History Workshop

"Adrift in Empire, Adrift in History: the problem of creole refugees in the Caribbean 1791-1812"

Room changed

Carrie Gibson.

Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

Thursday 07 June 2007, 17:00-18:30