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World History Seminar

University of Cambridge

Michaelmas Term, 2015-16

Thursdays, 5pm

Corpus Christi College, Staircase I, Room 4, New Court(except 8 October and 19 November).

All welcome

8 October

Alison Bashford, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History,

Inaugural Lecture, ‘Terraqueous Histories’. Law Faculty Lecture Theatre (17)

15 October

Professor Hans Pols (University of Sydney)

‘From Colonial Medicine to Global Health: Indonesian Physicians, 1910-1960’

22 October

Dr Patricia O’Brien (Australian National University)

‘The Trial of Ta’isi O. F. Nelson: New Zealand’s Colonial Justice and Indigenous

Resistance in 1930s Samoa’

29 October

Professor Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Ashoka University, India)‘Nehru and Bose: Differing Approaches to Fascism’

5 November (with Global Intellectual History) Professor Dirk Moses (European University Institute)

‘Partitions, Forced Population “Transfers” and the Question of Human Rights in the

1930s and 1940s’

19 November

Roundtable with Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth (Chicago, 2015)

Discussants: Alison Bashford (Cambridge), Faisal Devji (Oxford) and Simon Schaffer

(Cambridge)

Venue: McCrum Lecture Theatre, Benet Street (entrance next to the Eagle Pub)

3 December

Dr Bronwen Everill (Gonville and Caius College)

‘ “The Gallant Struggle for Liberty”: West Africa in the Age of Revolution’.

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