Recent external events the project team have participated in are listed here.

Global Perspectives on Colour Symposium

Friday 22 February 2013, Royal College of Art, London

Hanna Hodacs gave a paper "Eight Shades of Blue: Eighteenth Century Chinese Silk on the European Market" at the inter-disciplinary one day symposium, Global Perspectives on Colour. The symposium is organised by Liz Stanford and Josephine Rout, recent graduates from the RCA/V&A MA in History of Design, with Dr Christine Guth, Head of the Asian Design History and Material Culture specialism at the RCA/V&A, in conjunction with Professor Haruhiko Fujita, Professor of Aesthetics at Osaka University. Click for poster, program and speaker details.

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Comparative Histories of Asia - Seminar Series - Insitute of Historical Research

29th November 2012

Maxine Berg and Hanna Hodacs gave a joint seminar entitled "Trading and Consuming: East India Companies and Europe".

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'New Directions in Global History' - Oxford University

27 - 29 September 2012

Professor Maxine Berg was one of a host of speakers at the conference hosted by Oxford University's new Centre for Global History at St Anthony's College, Oxford. For more info on this click here.

 

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AHRC Global Commodities Network - 'Producing Material Culture for Global Markets'

11 - 12 October 2012

The team participated in the fourth event of the AHRC network on Global Commodities at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, of which Warwick's Global History and Culture Centre is a part. Professor Maxine Berg presented a paper on her latest work entitled “Producing for Global Markets: Craftspeople of Gujarat and Kachchh in the 18th and 21st Century”.