This workshop brings together early career research scholars of history and affiliated fields working on transnational networks fostered through the British Empire. It hopes to enable new conversations on diverse aspects of the British empire as a multi/ trans-national and global entity, and conceptual and historical approaches to frame it. We 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. We reiterate how trans-colonial traffic involved, yet circumvented, forms of metropolitan control and direction, highlighting connections between the colonies and dominions on the one hand, and extra-imperial entities on the other. Doctoral and ECR scholars will present papers 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.

The CFP is now closed.

This event is free and open to all. The Registration option is on top left side of this page.

Registration opens at 9.30 am on 21 June 2018, H0.60. Sessions will take place from 9.45am-6.30pm on both days.

Roundtable: 'Invoking the Global: And the Reach of the Transnational'

Readings

• Stephen Legg, 'Transnationalism and the Scalar Politics of Imperialism', New Global Studies, 2010
• Sarah Hodges, 'The Global Menace', Social History of Medicine, 2011

This roundtable will discuss conceptual and historical approaches to how the global and the transnational have played out in particular historical fields, and with what consequences for the discipline. Through two different but related readings (Legg and Hodges), we interrogate the politics and practices behind such an engagement and the scope and limits that characterise it. Our panelists Sarah Hodges, James Poskett and Anne Gerritsen will debate the methodological challenges of writing transnational history, while reflecting on its intersections with the 'global'. .

Keynote Speakers:

Anna Greenwood, University of Nottingham, 21 June 2018, 5pm, H0.60, Humanities Building

‘The Empire is not White’: Nairobi, public health, segregation and competing visions of a plural society, 1907-1923'

Clare Midgley, Sheffield Hallam University, 22 June 2018, 5pm, H5.45, Humanities Building

Cosmopolitan feminisms: Transnational collaboration on the ‘woman question’ between Indian, British and American activists

Organised by:

Somak Biswas(Warwick); CJ Kuncheria (New Delhi); Christian Velasco (Warwick), Dr. Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)

Faculty Collaborators:

Dr. James Poskett (Warwick); Dr. Aditya Sarkar (Warwick); Prof. Anne Gerritsen (Warwick)