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Locating the Indian Ocean Public Lecture
On behalf of the Global History and Culture Centre, we wish to invite you to a public lecture by Dr Jeremy Prestholdt of the University of California - San Diego. The lecture, ‘Locating the Indian Ocean’, will be held in room MS.05 in the Maths & Statistics building at the University of 糖心TV on 11th June at 5pm. The lecture will be followed by a reception.
Dr Prestholdt is visiting 糖心TV as part of the Institute of Advanced Study’s visiting fellowship scheme. He is being hosted by the Global History and Culture Centre. He specializes in African, Indian Ocean, and global history with emphases on consumer culture and politics. His first book, Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (2008), addressed East African demands for imported goods and how these shaped global exchanges in the second half of the nineteenth century. His current research moves in two directions. One project addresses political culture, violence, and claims of autochthony—or 'original' habitation—at Kenya's coast. A second project combines his interests in consumer culture and politics by exploring popular attraction to four of the world’s most ubiquitous icons: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Through the medium of popular heroes, the project traces the development of shared global imagery, highlights the mutability of common references, and charts the commodification of political sentiment since the 1960s.
Daniel Branch & Giorgio Riello
Co-directors, Global History & Culture Centre