Winter 2025

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January 22: Prof. Gwyn Campbell – “The Role of British Political Agents and Missionaries in Perpetuating Slavery and Forced Labour in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar“
February 5: Caroline LaPorte-Burns – “Art History & Communication Studies, McGill Shipwreck Memory: Submersion, Retrieval, and Material Conversion in Early Modern Dutch Mother-of-Pearl Craft“
February 12: Moinak Banerjee – “The Flâneur in South Asia: A Poetic Long Walk through the Global Sixties and Cultural Cold War“
February 19: Anna Winterbottom – “Inoculation in Early Modern India: Evidence from the East India Company Archive“
March 12: Veysel Simsek – “The Ottoman-Egyptian War of 1831-33: An Assessment“
March 26: Philip Gooding – “Missionary Discourse and the Problem of Slavery in Histories of the African Great Lakes“