Comparative Histories of Asia
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)
3 Mar 2016
War, the state, and the formation of the North Korean industrial working class, 1931-1960
Dr Owen Miller (SOAS)
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)
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)
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)
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)
23 Jan 2014
Summary of a Liar's Ideology: Lai Teck's Communism
Joshua de Cruz (Birkbeck), Vivienne Guo (KCL), Steve Ivings (LSE) and Mark Walsh (Birkbeck)
10 Oct 2013
Opening Roundtable Discussion: Public History in Asia
Dr Mark R. Frost (Essex), Dr Christopher Gerteis (SOAS), Professor Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck)