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Seminar: Beyond Orientalism - imperial encounters
Research focus: Colonialism, empires and transnational connections
Programme:
10.20 C. A. Bayly (St. Catharine's College, Cambridge), Indian political thought in global context, c. 1800-1950.
11.20-30 Coffee/Tea
11.30 Karen Valgårda (Saxo), Childhood in a Colonial Encounter - Danish Missionaries in South India 1860-1920
12.10 Peter Bang (Saxo), "Elephant of India" - precolonial empires beyond Orientalism
12.45 Concluding discussion
Background readings:
Modern Intellectual History, 2 April 2007: 'An intellectual History for India' and Modern Intellectual History 2010, 2: 'The Bhagavad Gita and modern thought'.
Contact Peter Fibiger Bang for further information.