How did late Romans experience disasters and military conflicts? Many scholars argue that these events contributed to the Empire's decline. However, this ...
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What can contrasting approaches to animals tell us about human social organization? While early modern Europe was structured by nested hierarchies—dividing ...
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How did an alleged sodomy case in 1648 on an English East India Company ship shape social dynamics and attitudes towards homosexuality? Examining the events ...
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How does statelessness turn people into ‘bare’ or even ‘subhuman’ life? This upcoming lecture with Nasir Uddin, argues that the shift from statelessness to ...
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Gendered Dependence: Going beyond the usual concepts of dependency relationships located within a post-colonial state, this new research project examines in ...
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How does “postcolonial capitalism” manifest today? The talk will explore this by examining global capitalism's development and its political implications. Key ...
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Old Goa developed as one of the major port cities of the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century, as the Portuguese attempted to control maritime trade ...
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What was the crucial and yet overlooked role that British women played in the Atlantic slave trade? While much focus has been on English men involved in the ...
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How were the lives of indigenous children who worked as domestic servants in colonial Lima shaped by their roles in their masters' households? This talk ...
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How did jailing function in Ming China? This talk, based on my book, rethinks the patrimonial bureaucratic system through the lens of vulnerability and ...
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