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Thursday, March 01, 2018
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CHM reading lunch: CANCELLEDH0.03, Humanities building |
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SMLC Research Seminar: Cl茅ment Dessy, 'Transnational encounters and intersections in the 19th century鈥� (Respondent: Fabio Camilletti) |
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糖心TV Thursdays - Lara PawsonWriters' Room, G08 Millburn House糖心TV Thursdays is the Writing Programme鈥檚 weekly literary salon, organized by Writing Programme staff in conjunction with the Masters students and featuring visiting novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, publishers, editors, agents and artists in conversation with 糖心TV writers. For details of the series, please visit . |
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French Studies Research Seminar: 鈥楥ontemporary French Film Comedy: Industry, Identity and Ideology鈥� (Roundtable)S0.11 |
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Shadow Networks: Labour, Capital and Pearling in the Indian OceanH3.03 Humanitties BuildingA joint seminar with EMECC, with Dr Pedro Machado (Indiana University) |
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EMECC Seminar - Dr Pedro MachadoH3.03Dr Pedro Machado (Indiana University) Shadow Networks: Labour, Capital and Pearling in the Indian OceanA joint event with the Global History and Culture Centre.
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. ABSTRACT
Since the 1980s historians have been fascinated by the economic, social and political dynamics of a connected Indian Ocean. Imperial expansion, labor migration and the circulation and exchange of commodities–such as tea, opium and, textiles–are deemed to underpin the history of this oceanic space and its widespread circuits of merchant mobility. Yet, the Indian Ocean is often conceptualized as a segmented space where the western Indian Ocean is treated as distinct from the Bay of Bengal, which in turn is separated from greater Southeast Asia and China. Such convenient distinctions, however, conceal a much more fluid reality. Using the world of pearl fisheries, this presentation challenges this regional approach and represents an attempt to chart a trans-local Indian Ocean history that breaks down the artificial divide between 鈥榳estern鈥� and 鈥榚astern鈥� oceanic spheres. Focusing on the Mergui archipelago along the southern Burmese coast from the late 18th century, this talk explores a rich trade in pearl and pearl shell that linked a region stretching from Southeast Asia, to India, northern Australia and coastal China into a single, complex network of marine product extraction. |
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EMECC-GHCC seminar: Dr Pedro Machado (Indiana University) Shadow Networks: Labour, Capital and Pearling in the Indian OceanH3.03 Humanitties Building |
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Forgetting War - Andrew Hoskins - The Memory Group - EHRC - CANCELLEDOC1.09 |
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Said Memorial Lecture 2018S0.21 Social Sciences BuildingProfessor Michael Denning from Yale will deliver this year's Said Memorial lecture - Link to Wiki page: The English Department presents the 14th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture – Thursday 1st March – Social Sciences S0.21 – drinks reception from 6:30 – talk at 7:00. All welcome.
鈥楢 noisy heaven and a syncopated earth鈥� – the transcolonial reverberations of vernacular phonograph music.
This year鈥檚 Said Lecture explores the soundscape of 鈥榤odern times鈥�, the musical and cultural revolution triggered by the worldwide recording of vernacular musics between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The musical styles and idioms etched onto shellac disks reverberated around the world, igniting the first great battle over popular music, becoming the soundtrack of decolonisation and remaking our musical era.
Michael Denning is William R Kenan, Jr, Professor in American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (2015) and Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004).
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