Asia
14 Jun 2016
Princely education and colonial improvements in nineteenth century India
Teresa Segura-Garcia (University of Cambridge), Callie Wilkinson (University of Cambridge)
1 Jun 2016
From Country House to Empire Home: Material Cultures of the East India Company
Margot Finn (University College London)
26 Apr 2016
The Muses of War: Terror, Anger, and Faith during the Bombing of British and Japanese Cities, 1940-1945
Chair: Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck), Aaron Moore (University of Manchester)
8 Mar 2016
Healing, exorcism and charismatic powers in 19th and 20th Century Chinese Christianity
Lars Laamann (SOAS)
3 Mar 2016
War, the state, and the formation of the North Korean industrial working class, 1931-1960
Dr Owen Miller (SOAS)
3 Feb 2016
The City as Phoenix: ruination and recovery in 20th-century Tokyo
Mark Pendleton (Sheffield)
10 Dec 2015
No Country for Old Crocodiles: Fraudulent Paperworks, the Commodity Fetish, and Political Ecology in Colonial Burma
Dr Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds)
2 Dec 2015
Forging India's Democratic Citizenship: The Preparation of the First Elections 1947-1952
Dr Steve Ericson (Dartmouth College)
15 Oct 2015
'Islands in Asian History': an opening roundtable event
Dr Zoltan Biedermann | UCL; Dr Paul Kreitman | IHR; Dr Jeppe Mulich | LSE; Dr Jan Rueger | Birkbeck
5 Mar 2015
The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond
Dr Micah Muscolino (University of Oxford)
5 Feb 2015
Rashid al-Din, Bolad Chengxiang, and Cultural Administration in the Mongol Empire: Imperial Ambitions and Local Identities in the Production of Art, History, and Science
Dr Vivienne Lo (UCL)
28 Jan 2015
Localising the Global: Industrial Schools in Missionary Discussion, British India, 1880s-1940
Arun Kumar (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Gottingen)
9 Dec 2014
Orgasmic Pedagogy at two Chinese Villages near Tianjin, 1999-2000
Dr Leon Rocha (University of Liverpool)
27 Nov 2014
Survivors: Hiroshima, the Holocaust and the Rise of Global Memory Culture
Dr Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University)
13 Nov 2014
Toward a Transnational History of Manchuria and the Korean War, 1945-1955
Dr Adam Cathcart (University of Leeds)
13 Nov 2014
'An imperial tour'. Le voyage de Lord Curzon en 1903 ou "l'achèvement" d'un siècle de politique anglo-indienne dans le Golfe?
Guillemette Crouzet (Paris 4)
15 May 2014
A Tale of Two Mosques: Impresarios of Islam in America and Japan
Professor Nile Green (UCLA)
6 Mar 2014
Spectacles of Sovereignty: Persian Shahs in Imperial Europe, 1873-1905
Dr David Motadel (University of Cambridge)
28 Feb 2014
Global questions about objects and archives: understanding how, when, and why, the Indian rupee became the currency of East Africa
Catherine Eagleton, British Library
28 Feb 2014
Critiquing Global Histories from Images of the Port of Colombo, c.1900
Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge
20 Feb 2014
Trying the Atrocities of the Japanese Occupation as Treason in the Philippines, 1947-1953
Dr Konrad Lawson (University of St. Andrew’s)
6 Feb 2014
Chinese and British Gift Giving in the Macartney Embassy of 1793
Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
21 Nov 2013
Des toits sur la grève. Le logement des travailleurs et la question sociale à Bombay (1850-1950)
Vanessa Caru (CNRS - Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud)
4 Nov 2013
Inhabitants of the Universe: Networks, Empire and the English East India Company in the Early Modern World
David Veevers (Kent)