Per mare, per terram
DAY 1: NETWORKS OF COMMUNICATION, 5 JULY 2010
LOCATION: ‘ANATOMY THEATRE’, KCL
| 9.30 | Arrival | |
| 10 | Jo McDonagh, Introduction | |
| 10.15 | Moving Words 1 | |
| Isabel Hofmeyr (Witswatersrand), ‘Hind Swaraj, Circulating Texts and Talking Machines’ | ||
| Mark Ravinder Frost (Hong Kong), ‘An Ocean of Print: the communications revolution | ||
| in late-colonial South and Southeast Asia’ | ||
| 11.30 | Coffee | |
| 12 | Moving Words 2 | |
| Clare Pettitt (KCL), ‘The Telegraphic Imaginary: Scrambled Messages in the 1860s’ | ||
| Rimi B. Chatterjee (Jadavpur), ‘Al Jabr wal Muqabila: H.S. Hall, Macmillan and the | ||
| Coming Together of Things Far Apart’ | ||
| 1.15 | Lunch | |
| 2.30 | Circulation and Popular Culture | |
| Amlan Das Gupta (Jadavpur), ‘Plates and Bangles: Early Recorded Music in India’ | ||
| Paul Young (Exeter), ‘Around the World in Eighty Moves: Globalised Modernity and Nineteenth-Century Board Games’ | ||
| John Plunkett (Exeter), ‘Moving Images/Touring Shows: Imagining Trade and Information Networks in Victorian Popular Entertainment’ | ||
| 4.30 | Tea | |
| 5 | Roundtable: Global Theory: or ‘Theory’ in/of Motion | |
| Piyel Haldar (Birkbeck); Sujit Sivasundaram (LSE); Robert Young (NYU) | ||
| 6 | Drinks reception | |
| 8pm | Conference Dinner |
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"Two views of the Trans-Africa Telegraph Line"
DAY 2: TECHNOLOGIES OF TRANSIT, 6 JULY 2010
LOCATION: MUSEUM OF LONDON (DOCKLANDS)
| 9.30 | Arrival | |
| 9.45 | Bodies on Board | |
| Kat Foxhall (Manchester) | ||
| ‘Smallpox and the ‘Screaming Farce’: The Journal of the SS Hero Passengers in Quarantine, Port Jackson, New South Wales, 1872′ | ||
| Nilanjana Deb (Jadavpur), ‘Moving Bodies: Coolie Ships and the Technologies of Labour Export from the Colonial Port of Kolkata’ | ||
| 11 | Coffee | |
| 11.30 | Ballast | |
| Devleena Ghosh (UTS), ‘Differential Mobility: Unregulated Circulation of People in the Indian Ocean’ | ||
| Elaine Freedgood (NYU), ‘Ballast’ | ||
| 12.45 | Lunch | |
| 2 | Collected Objects | |
| Alex Werner (Museum of London), ‘Chilled and Frozen – the early years of London’s refrigerated meat trade’ | ||
| Martha Fleming / Julie Harvey (CAHR, Natural History Museum) | ||
| ‘Reconstructing Nathaniel Wallich: the diaspora of botanical knowledge from the Calcutta Botanical Gardens’ | ||
| Yuthika Sharma (V&A and Columbia), ‘Delhi on my lapel: Miniature paintings on ivory in nineteenth century India’ | ||
| 3.30 | Tea | |
| 4 | Plenary, Margot Finn (Warwick) | |
| ‘Killed by Cannibals, Bartered for Axe-heads: Anglo-Indians, Material Culture and Colonial Exchange in the Torres Straits’ | ||
| 5 | Break | |
| 5.45 | Michael Uwemedimo (Roehampton), ‘Escravos’ – Discussion and screening of short video foota |
| 9 | Arrival | |
| 9.15 | The Global Circulation Project: China Circulations/Translations 1851-1914 | |
| Regenia Gagnier and Ting Guo (Exeter) | ||
| 10.15 | Coffee | |
| 10.45 | Connecting Colonial Spaces | |
| Heather Goodall (UTS), ‘Race, Politics and Gender: Social Networks of Commodities and Australian Docks, 1850s to 1950s’ | ||
| Anupama Rao (Columbia), ‘Caste, Labour, and Everyday Life in Colonial Bombay’ | ||
| Andy Liu, ‘Tea and Labor: The Circuit Between Northeast India, South China and London, 1839-1911′ | ||
| 1.15 | Lunch | including Museum Visit |
| 3 | Commodities and Culture: New Trajectories | |
| Chair: | Jo McDonagh | |
| Speakers: | Chris Bayly (Cambridge), Isabel Hofmeyr (Witwatersrand), Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (NYU) | |
| 4.30 | Close |