Events and Activities in the Global History and Culture Centre: Calendar
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Tuesday, November 05, 2024
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Warwick-Japan seminar, ‘Categories at Work in Global History’MS TeamsMiki Sugiura (Hosei University) and Guido van Meersbergen (Warwick) online only zoom link: JSPS-Warwick zoom link Guido van Meersbergen (University of Warwick) Voyages and Travels: (De)colonial understandings This presentation will focus on "travel" as a category at work in global history and ask how understandings of the term as reflected primarily in Anglophone scholarship on travel and travel writing have been shaped by the European colonial tradition of exploration, and how we can move beyond that.
Miki Sugiura (Hosei University) Arts, Crafts and Manufactures in the Global History of Things
This paper explores the category of traded goods within the framework of the Global History of Things, highlighting how concepts and classifications such as Arts, Crafts, and Manufacture emerged within the practice of trade and production. In this presentation, particular focus will be placed on the role and positioning of Japanese lacquerware within these dynamics. |