[Reader-list] SociologySeminar at SAU: Empire and its Aftermath

[Diya Mehra]

The Department of Sociology, South Asian University


 

cordially invites you a seminar:

 

‘Empire and its aftermath, 1930-89: Rethinking British History’

 

by

 




















Prof. Susan D. Pennybacker



Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Prof. of European HistoryUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 























Wednesday, February 6 2013, 2 pm

 

FSI Hall, South
Asian University, Akbar Bhavan, Delhi, 

 

Transnational approaches to the history of Britain cross
artificial boundaries between the old imperial and diplomatic narratives, and
more recent social and cultural studies of the colonial and post-colonial
orders. In pursuing a global context, this kind of approach disrupts and
transforms the study of “domestic” British history. This presentation explores
several 20th century case studies to illustrate this innovative
approach.  These include:  the Scottsboro rape case in the American South
and the international campaign to free its defendants; the Meerut conspiracy
trial in India and its reverberations in Britain; and the lives of South
African anti-apartheid exiles in London in the era of the Cold War. New kinds
of interrogations of established collections, and the juxtaposition of materials
from an array of British, European, Russian and South African archives, provoke
us to rethink what we understand as “British history."