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Making Britain Events
We will be hosting a number of seminars and workshops during the course of the project, as well as a final conference and exhibition in 2010. More information about these events will be posted on this page, so please visit regularly. In the meantime, if you would like to be involved, please visit our Contact page to be added to our mailing list.
Forthcoming events
We will be holding a seminar series under the auspices of the Post-Colonial Literatures Seminar Series at the Institute of English Studies in Spring 2009 on the theme of 'Resistances'. More information will be available soon.
Past events
Workshop 1: South Asian contact zones in the metropolis
Wednesday 23 April 2008
9.30am to 4.30pm
Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London
This one-day workshop will be considering South Asians and their varied interactions with the metropolis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Keynote speakers are Antoinette Burton (Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois) addressing the methodology of transnationalism in relation to a migrant doctor, and Partha Mitter (Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Sussex) addressing ideas of cosmopolitanism in relation to migrant artists. There will also be a panel on ‘Indians on the Celtic Fringe’ with papers on South Asian interactions in Ireland and Scotland. The day will be rounded off by a plenary panel of the core research team on the Making Britain project discussing the project and the day’s papers.
Recordings and pictures from this event will be up shortly.
Follow this link for a programme
of the day’s workshop.
The Gwalior Gateway at the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition,
South Kensington, London
Illustrated News, July 1886
Workshop 2: Investigating Asian Bloomsbury
Saturday 5 July 2008
9.30am to 5.00pm
St John’s College Research Centre, St Giles, Oxford
This one-day workshop seeks to redefine Bloomsbury, central London, as a site of cross-cultural interaction and exchange in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Locating South Asian editors, writers, activists and soldiers at the core of London, it will explore the varied ways in which these early migrants negotiated and reshaped this iconic space. The workshop will open with a keynote paper by Kristin Bluemel (Monmouth University, NJ) on Mulk Raj Anand and ‘intermodernism’. This will be followed by a range of papers on literary figures and movements, publishing ventures and political activism, and a panel on the First World War as an ‘Indian war’.
Recordings and pictures from this event will be up shortly.
Follow this link for a programme
of the day’s workshop.
