The Centre for Comparative Modernities is delighted to announce the term card for its 2024/25 Autumn term workshop series.
Please note all sessions will be online on Zoom at 14:00 UK time:
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/8603919782?pwd=OGxydGs1QVNKZTJrbTJuZkF3ZEZIZz09
Meeting ID: 860 391 9782
Passcode: 444615
Session 1: Technological and Ideological Modernities [15 October 2024]
Counting In, Counting Out: Practical and Ideological Considerations in the 1865 Census of Shanghai Foreign Settlements
Qingrou Zhao, University of Edinburgh
Technical Modernity and Future Figurations in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Daniel Hernández Quiñones, Catholic University of Eichstätt (Germany)
Session 2: Ethnoreligious and Gender Modernities [29 October 2024]
Minoritarian Modernisms, Ethnic Abjections: Rum Theatre in 20th Century Istanbul
Christina Banalopoulou, University of Milan
Modernities, Gender, and Material Culture Through the Lens of Homemaking Practices Among Mobile Working Men in Northern India
Devika Bahadur, De Montford University
Session 3: Constructing Modernities [12 November 2024]
Surrealism from Paris to Shanghai
Lauren Walden, Birmingham City University
Darwinism and Artificial Selection: Understanding Ecological Modernity of Post Darwinian era
Priyanka Guha Roy, Kazi Nazrul University (India)
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