CULTURE, THINGS, AND EMPIRE: VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES.

Registration

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the latest series of ‘Culture, Things and Empire’ virtual seminars. This series consists of six seminars to be held between March and July 2022. Each seminar will feature two 20-minute papers with a common theme, followed by a Q&A session.

Registration is essential. Please sign up to each seminar using the links below.

OWNERSHIP – Wednesday 30 March, 2pm (UK time)

Niels Boender (University of Warwick and Imperial War Museum) Mau Mau at the Museum: Reviewing the Imperial War Museum’s Kenyan collections
JC Niala (University of Oxford) Not Truly African – How Museum Collections Reveal Contested African Histories

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TRADE – Wednesday 27 April, 2pm (UK time)

Fleur Martin (University of Warwick) Cotton, Ivory and Rifles: The Origins of West Dean’s East African Collection
Camilo Uribe Botta (University of Warwick) The British Informal Empire and the Commerce of Orchids between Latin America and the UK during the Nineteenth Century

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MEMORIAL – Wednesday 11 May, 2pm (UK time)

Dr Meg Foster (University of Cambridge) Monumental Exclusion: The ethics of creating new monuments to forgotten bushrangers
Bryan McClure (Western University, Canada) Memorials to Imperial Service: Historic Churches and Memorials to Imperial Servants

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ART – Wednesday 25 May, 2pm (UK time)

Claudia Di Tosto (University of Warwick and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) ‘Austerity and Muddled Optimism’: the Impact of Decolonisation on Britain’s Participation at the 1948 Venice Biennale
Dr Caroline Molloy (Birkbeck, University of London and University for the Creative Arts, Farnham) The Instability of the Pillar

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CURATION – Wednesday 29 June, 2pm (UK time)

Lingjun Li (University of Birmingham) Conflict and harmony in a colonial context a critical review of the Ichang Riot exhibition in Yichang Museum, China
Gayathri Anand, Toni Busuttil, David Owen and Tim Tong (Object in Focus, Horniman Museum and Gardens) Navigating Indigenous Perspectives and Colonial Histories in Museum Collections and Displays

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RACE – Wednesday 27 July, 2pm (UK time)

lyas Azouzi (University College London) Circulating the review Difesa della Razza. Racist propaganda and Empire in Fascist Italy
Zineb Khemissi (University of Portsmouth) ‘War Waifs’ the Reflective American Narrative of Korean American Adoptees: A Longitudinal Case Study of Transnational Adoptees’ Hybrid Identity Negotiation within the Third Space.

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Images:
Banner: R.T. Cooper, ‘1907 First Oranges from South Africa, 1903 First Sultanas and Currants from Australia: Buy Empire Every Day’ London, Dunstable and Watford, England, United Kingdom, circa 1926-1934, Empire Marketing Board. Library and Archives Canada, e010758917, MIKAN 2845186.
Image Gallery:
Logo: Thanks to Needpix.com user harshrajbhanawatcer1 for allowing us to use image entitled ‘Jaipur India Architecture’.
Other featured images:
Pipes, carved ivory, Southwest Alaska Eskimo (center), c. 1900, and Bering Strait Eskimo (bottom), early 1800s. Exhibit from the Native American Collection, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Photography was permitted without restriction; exhibit is old enough so that it is in the public domain.
‘Aboriginal Art Painting’, pixabay image in the public domain, free for commercial use.
‘Illustrations of Mughals from the Baburnama’, image in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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