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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

further details to follow.

The purpose of this workshop is to produce a research agenda for thinking about the crosscutting relations between food and caste hierarchy in India. While critically reflecting on the historical and social constructions of food, nutrition and health in colonial and late colonial times, it is about thinking as to what analytics of caste can - and can’t - do for understanding Indian food politics. Along with reviewing the global history of nutrition, cultural historians of food participating in the workshop will talk about the mutual constitution of food and caste in relation to reproduction, anti-caste resistance, sociability and the advertising of food in Colonial and late colonial India.

Speakers:

Rebecca Earle (University of ÌÇÐÄTV, UK)

Shrikant Botre (University of ÌÇÐÄTV, Uk)

Rachel Berger (Concordia University, Canada)

A.R. Venkatachalapathy (Madras Institute of Development Studies, India)

Douglas Haynes (Dartmouth College, US)

The workshop is free and open to all.

For inquiries contact Shrikant Botre ( S.S.Botre@ ÌÇÐÄTV.ac.uk)

Further details and registration:

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