The Emory Workshop in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies
Program Leaders: Clifton Crais and Gyan Pandey
Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are in the Major Seminar Room, Bowden Hall 323, from 4-6 pm. Papers are pre-circulated and available through the Department of History or via Reserves Direct under "Clifton Crais, HIST 999--The Emory Workshop in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies." Please direct all questions to Clifton Crais, ccrais@emory.edu.
* Sessions marked with an asterik are at 4:30pm in the 7th floor conference room, Rollins School of Public Health. They are sponsored by the Program in Science & Society, with the support of the Nat C. Robertson Endowment.
| WORKSHOP SCHEDULE FOR SPRING SEMESTER 2008 | |
| 20 February | Job Market Workshop |
| 5 March | Jane Hooper (Emory): "Local Beaches, Global Shores: The Transformation of the Indian Ocean during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" |
| 19 March | Nick Cullather (Indiana): "What if They Held a Famine and Nobody Starved? Johnson, Gandhi, and the Bihar Crisis of 1967" * |
| 26 March | Peter Geschiere (Leiden): " 'L'école de la Sorcellerie': Problems of Reality, Discourse and Agency in Studying Witchcraft" |
| 2 April | Willem van Schendel (Leiden): "Bangladesh and India: Riddles of Sovereignty, Legacies of Misperception" |
| 2 April | Odd Arne Westad (London School of Economics): "The '70s Transformation: Change and Continuity in the Cold War's Vital Decade" * |
| 16 April | David Arnold (London): "Everyday Technology in Monsoon Asia: India 1880-1960" * |
| 23 April | Sanal Mohan (Emory): "Ethnography of a 'Civilizing Mission': Situating the Missionaries and Dalits in the twentieth-century Kerala" |
| 30 April | Graduate Workshop |
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