Cumulative Outline of Fall 2018 Colloquium

December 14

Heather Lee, “Port City New York–Digitizing Immigrant Histories”

Jerome Whitington, “Port Cities and Climate Change: Lessons from Thailand’s 2011 Catastrophic Flooding”

December 7

Tatiana Linkhoeva, “The Buryat-Mongol National Movement and Japanese Interests in Siberia, 1917–1919”

Frederick Cooper, “Decolonization in Space and Time”4:00-6:45 p.m. in 701 KJCC

November 30

Paul A. Kramer, “Sovereignty’s Edges: U. S. Immigration Control and the Boundaries of American Power in the Long 20th Century,”

November 16

Debjani Bhattacharyya, “Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta”

November 9

Chen Jian, “Shanghai Underground, 1927-1931,” draft Chapter 7 of his Zhou Enlai biography, Zhou Enlai: The Man and His Times” (still work in progress). 

November 2

Susanah Romney (History) and Kathleen Burke (Anthropology, University of                    Toronto), on the VOC in Batavia

October 26

Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer (History and MEIS) “Sect & Sectarianism in the Early Modern Middle East and its Broader Implications”

Leslie Peirce (History, Emerita), “Did slavery among the early modern Ottomans have a globalizing effect?”           

October 19

Zvi Ben-Dor (History and MEIS), “Hijra and Exile: Dual Sovereignty in Qing China.”

October 12

Jane Burbank (History), “Eurasian Sovereignty” with Guy Burak (Bobst Library), serving as discussant.

October 5 

John Guy (Metropolitan Museum of Art), “Long distance Arab Shipping in the 9th century Indian Ocean: Recent Shipwreck Evidence from Southeast Asia,” 

David Ludden, (History) “Mobility and Territoriality in the Spatial History of Buddhism.”

September 28

Dipti Khera (Art History/IFA), “Euphoric Arrivals and Entangled Mobilities in the Indian Ocean Littoral, Diu ca. 1666,”

Emma Stein (Freer Sackler Gallery), “From Temple to World: Kanchipuram’s Expanding Networks, ca. 8th – 12th centuries.”

September 21

Andrew Monson, “Alexander’s Tributary Empire.”  

Norman Underwood, “The Spice of Life: Buying Indian Pepper and Other Eastern Goods in Roman Egypt.”