Graduate Student Research Presentations, Global & Imperial History, D.Phil & M.St.

All welcome, presentations to be followed by a drinks reception. 

 

Global & Imperial History Graduate Student Research Presentations

Friday 8th March, 2019 – Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

 

 

Time

Presenter

Title

Chair

Session 1

11.00am

Yui Chim Lo

Imagining the Continent’s Future: China, India and Post-War Asia, 1937-1949

Richard Reid

11.30am

Thomas Burnham

Going Down to the Global Countryside: Soviet and Chinese Aid Diplomacy in Africa

12.00pm

Marco De Jong

Fesuiaiga o le Tau: A Politicised ‘Climate’ in a Changing Pacific, 1945-1990

 

12.30pm

Lunch

Session 2

1.30pm

Alastair Brook

How did the relationship between popular music and liberation politics in South Africa develop in the context of global struggles for liberation between 1948-1976?

Jodie Sun

2.00pm

Neha Shah

"The weight of a gun’s magazine”: the Palestinian Revolutionary Movement and the Tricontinental, 1967-73

2.30pm

Katie Phipps

Colonising birth: French perspectives on traditional Moroccan midwifery and birth in the early 20th century

 

3.00pm

Break

Session 3

3.30pm

Claire Jones

Inquisition, New Christians, and the Portuguese Restoration in Goa, 1630-1650

Hanna Smyth

4.00pm

Kumuthan Maderya

Stabilizing the 'Arc of Instability' – India’s Response to the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan

4.30pm

Allison Panelas

Population Exchanges and Partition: discussions of the Treaty of Lausanne in the context of the Partition of India

 

5.00pm

Close and Drinks Reception