Location
Palace Green Learning Centre, Durham University
Bayly Conference
19th May 2017, 17:15 to 20th May 2017, 19:00, Palace Green Learning Centre
A two-day conference taking place in Durham.
There is a registration fee of £10. Please email history.reception@durham.ac.uk to register.
Friday, 19th May
Location: Palace Green Learning Centre
5.15pm Christof Dejung (Konstanz) – ‘Are we all global historians now? Connections, comparisons and frames of reference in world historical research’
7.30pm Dinner
Saturday, 20th May
Location: Palace Green Learning Centre
9.30am Welcome and introductions
10am Andrew Arsan (Cambridge) – ‘Of upward and downward hermeneutics: Chris Bayly and the social life of ideas’
11am-11.15am Coffee break
11.15am-12.30pm SESSION 1: Asia
Elisabeth Leake (Leeds) – ‘Local, regional, and global conceptions of Pashtun ‘tribes’ in the modern world’
Jonathan Saha (Leeds) – ‘Animal Life and the Death of a Colonial Metropolis: Yangon, 1938-1949’
Sare Aricanli (Durham) – ‘Bayly on China’
12.30pm-1.15pm LUNCH
1.15pm-2.30pm SESSION 2: Empire
Mark Frost (Essex), ‘Of ecumenes and modernity: Revisiting Empire and Information’
Rachel Johnson (Durham), ‘The Making of Modern Africa and The Birth of the Modern World: problematising Africa’s place in the world with first year undergraduates’
David Lowther (Newcastle / Durham), ‘Empire, Information, and the Imagining of India’
2.30pm-3.45pm SESSION 3: Global histories
Aaron Graham (UCL), ‘Rulers, townsmen and bazaars in North America, c. 1700-83’
Bernhard Struck (St Andrews), ‘Prussia’s Atlantic History: Imperial rivalries, the Partitions of Poland-Lithuania and French Guiana in a (speculative) global context, 1760s-1790s’
Felicia Gottmann (Dundee), ‘Proto-globalisation, bodily practices, and imperial crisis: recent work on global cottons’
3.45pm-4.00pm Coffee break
4pm-5pm Ruth Harris (Oxford) – Margaret Noble and Vivekananda: Aggression, Submission and the Spirituality of Nationalism in India
5pm Discussion
7pm Conference Dinner