GIH Postgraduate Student Presentations

Please join us on Thursday 13th of March, 2-4:45pm and Friday 14th of March, 9-5pm for our MSt Presentations. Feel free to come along to a specific presentation or for the whole day. 

Thursday 13th of March, 2-4:45pm, Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History 

Education & Empire

Chair: Faridah Zaman 

Shreya Ganguli - 'Ayahs, Amahs, and the Children they Cared for in 20th Century Colonial Households' 

Camille Lund - 'Educating Multiracial Shanghai: The Evolution of Public Education in the International Settlement, 1863-1917' 

Asma Shakeel - 'In All Things Be Men: Christian Masculinity and Imperial Education in Kashmir, c.1880-1947'

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3:30-3:45pm Break 

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Eleanor Wikstrom - 'Colonize or Colonise? English Education and Epistemic Colonialism in Asia under U.S and British Rule' 

Ryan Mealiffe - 'Sea, Land, and Sky: Following the Birds of the Medieval East Atlantic, 800-1400'

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Friday 14th of March, 9-5pm, Colin Matthew Room, Faculty of History 

9-10:30am: Movement in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Worlds 

Chair: Hohee Cho 

Jatin Abhir - 'The Indian Ocean through the Eyes of Travelling 'Native' Scribes, 1795-1830' 

Nathaniel Downham - 'Surviving Spirits of Dysentery: Medical Encounters in the South Pacific Labour Trade, 1868-1911' 

Abigail Wong - 'Go back to where you come from': Deportation, Repatriation and Exile in Decolonising Malaysia and Singapore' 

11-1pm: Colonialism and Post-Colonialism in Practise 

Chair: Richard Reid 

Joseph Abraham Woldegiorgis - 'Settler Visions on the Southern and Western Imperial Ethiopian Frontiers, 1881-1935' 

Tori Harwell - 'Mundane Imperialism: The Quiet Career of Sir Matthew Nathan as a Governor in the British Empire' 

Erin Bridgewater - 'Un visage d'ordre, d'equilibre et de grand stabilite': Subversion, Repression and Security in Post-Colonial Cameroon, 1960-1972'

Paul Guajardo - 'Francoist Foundations in the Equatorial Guinean Dictatorship'

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1-2pm Lunch 

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2-3pm: Art & Empire 

Chair: Andrew Thompson 

Simon Tacke - 'Stolen Goods? Antiquities Trade in 19th Century Egypt' 

Bilal Aly - 'Crafting Aesthetic Imaginaries: J.L. Kipling, Sacred Worlds, and the Artisans of Punjab, c.1870-1920 

3:30-5pm: Culture, Media & Power 

Chair: Hunter Harris 

Connor Connolly - 'The Terror Machine that has run out of control: British Media and Shifting Power during the Iranian Revolution' 

Rachna Satnaliwala - 'The Construction of Race in 19th Century Native American Photography' 

Avin Houro - 'Funding Resistance: Kurdish Diasporic Art and Mitterand's Cultural Policies'