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 OBrien (Australian National University)
The Trial of Taisi O. F. Nelson: New Zealands 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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