The Centre for Comparative Modernities is delighted to announce the Spring Term 2024/25 term card for its Postgraduate and Early Careers Workshop Series.
Session 1: Technological Modernities [18 February 2025]
Submarine Sovereignty in the Mediterranean: The Case of the Libyan Submarine Telegraph
Ada Ferraresi, University of Seville
A Mosaic Assembled Piecemeal: Imagining Japanese Bridges in Victorian Britain
Zoe Shipley, Durham University
For more information: https://royalhistsoc.org/calendar/technological-modernities-centre-for-comparative-modernities-workshop-series-workshop/
Session 2: Media and Gender Modernities [4 March 2025]
Gendering Modernity: How Neoliberal Autocracies used Big Media to neutralize the threat of Modernity disrupting a Gendered Social Structure
Noor Suwwan, University of Wollongong
Gendering Dongbei: Masculinities and the Imaginary of Northeast China in The Long Season
Min Xu, Durham University
Session 3: Localising Modernities [18 March 2025]
Constructing the Region: China, India and Post-war Asian Modernities, 1945-1950
Yui Chim Lo, University of Manchester
Transnational Modernities: Bridging Political Histories Across Colonial Borders
Asis Mistry, University of Calcutta
Session 4: Environmental and Medical Modernities [1 April 2025]
From Introduction to Indigenization: A Technology History of Hearing Aids in Republican and Early Socialist China
Shu Wan, University at Buffalo
Salinity, Stagnation, Indigeneity: Hydro-relations and Liquid Modernities in Post-Independence Mexico
Niall A. Peach, University of Cincinnati
All sessions will be held online at 14:00-15:30 UK Time
Meeting ID: 364 338 920 501
Password: 22ti2nn2