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This workshop intends to bring together early career research scholars of history and affiliated fields working on transnational networks fostered through the British Empire. Our aim is to enable new conversations on diverse aspects of the British empire as a multi/ trans-national and global entity dispersed across colonial locations from Asia and Africa to Australia and the Americas. We hope to facilitate a substantive engagement on conceptual and historical approaches of framing the empire as a supra entity that would closely explore the intra, inter and extra imperial negotiations of its various constituents – through movements, flows, circulations, discursive configurations and lateral networks that spanned countries, colonies and continents. Through this workshop, we seek to reiterate how trans-colonial traffic involved, yet circumvented, forms of metropolitan control and direction, and highlight connections between the colonies and dominions on the one hand, and extra-imperial entities on the other. We look forward to papers by scholars that study these linkages and their attendant politics focusing, but not limited to: transnational histories of objects, religious, economic and political discourses and networks, capital, commodities, scientific or cultural productions.

A doctoral and early career workshop, organised by Somak Biswas

CFP

Workshop: Centring the Caribbean in Caribbean Migration and Development

Through exploring different viewpoints of postcolonial thought in relation to development theory (imperialism, plantation society, dependency, modernization, world systems theory and globalization), the aim is to appreciate how the Caribbean is positioned and viewed regionally and globally.