Fall 2018

Scroll down for links to presenters’ individual posters and abstracts for the Fall 2018 IOWC Speaker Series.

• 19 September: Alastair McClure (IOWC, McGill University), Sovereignty, Law, and the Politics of Forgiveness in Colonial India
• 26 September: [CANCELLED] Katherine Lemons
• 3 October: Vanessa Mass (VMC Environment), Biodiversity Management in the Mining Context
• 17 October: Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia), Across Oceans of Law
• 24 October: Sarah Carson (Princeton University), Stubborn, Wayward, and Uncertain: The Problem of the Monsoon for the Bureaucratic Imperial State
• 31 October: Jesse James (Concordia University), Agency, Economy and Sovereignty in the Periphery of Empire: Interactions surrounding the Establishment of a British Exchange Bank in Bahrain, 1900-1920
• 7 November: Jennifer Craig (IOWC, McGill University), Blue Space: Mapping Ancient Shipping Activities, A Case Study of Beads on Shipwrecks
• 14 November: Rebekah McCallum (IOWC, McGill University), The Push of Famine: Business and Tea Estate Labour in Early Twentieth-Century India
• 21 November: Rachel Berger (Concordia University), Clarified Commodities: Food as Substance and Product in India, circa 1930
• 28 November: Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill University), East Africa’s Great Lakes and the Indian Ocean World during the Nineteenth Century
• 5 December: Benjamin Thomas White (University of Glasgow), Teffi’s Sealskin Coat and Other Stories: Animals, People, and Places in Forced Displacement