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Advanced DPhil Lecture Series
Name Lecture Title Paper(s) Summary Date/Time
Medieval Communities in England and Europe
S. Markert Local Communities and
Legal Development: new
research in the
administration of justice in
England 1250-1350
BIF2: The British Isles in the
Central Middle Ages, 1000-
1330
BIP2: 2 The British Isles, 1000-
1330
This lecture will explore the role of local communities
and legal practices in the evolution of English law. It
will address questions such as the connection between
local and centralized courts and their administration,
popular attitudes towards and expectations of justice,
and the effects of the professionalization of law during
the 13th century. The lecture would be useful for
anyone interested in English law, social and
institutional change during this period, and the impact
of local societies on English governance.
Th. 3pm (Week 1)
S. Braund Queens, Saints, and
Monastic Communities:
new research in the 10th
century Benedictine
Reform in Anglo-Saxon
England
BIF1: The Early Medieval
British Isles, 300-1100
BIP1: 1 The British Isles, 300-
1100
This lecture will explore the influence and reception of
the 10th century monastic reform, known as the
Benedictine Reform, in male and female monastic
communities. It will address questions concerning the
extent of the Benedictine Reform, the local agency of
monastic communities (male and female) in late
Anglo-Saxon England, and the importance of royalty to
these communities. This lecture would be useful for
students interested in the role of the Church in Anglo-
Saxon society, monastic life for men and women,
and/or the role of gender in the negotiation and
creation religious communities and identities.
Th. 3pm (Week 2)
A. Raisharma Identity, Institution and
Interaction in Monastic
Spaces in Europe and
World History in Late
EWF1: The World of Late
Antiquity: 250-650
EWF2: The Early Medieval
World, 600-1000
This lecture will demonstrate how monastic
communities from western Europe, Byzantium and
North Africa in the late antiquity and the early
medieval period can be used as case studies to explore
key questions of social and cultural history: identity,
Th. 3pm (Week 3)
Antiquity and the Early
Middle Ages
EWF4: The Global Middle
Ages, 500-1500
institution and interaction. Accordingly, this lecture
will be delivered in three parts: a) Gender and Identity:
this lecture will focus on inter-generational tensions
and explore whether one can detect crises of
masculinity within monastic communities. b)
Community Formation and Institutional Practices:
Community formation and institutional practices will
be examined through histories of slavery and domestic
labour. c) Inter-connected Spaces and Places: Finally,
this lecture will test whether these monastic spaces
were affected by or affected the dynamics of the
Mediterranean world in this period, or whether the
global circulation of texts, peoples and ideas had little
or no impact on these communities.
Movement and Exchange in the Long Sixteenth Century
R. Asquez
New Research in the
Material Culture of
Devotion: the Case of the
Suffering Christ (c.1450-
c.1530)
EWF6: Early Modern Europe,
1500-1700
Much recent research into late medieval piety has
focused on the role of the Blessed Virgin and the
saints; however, my research approaches late
medieval religion through an image which was at its
heart – that of the suffering Christ. This lecture will
serve as an introduction to the theme by analysing its
place and presence in the material culture of piety. As
such, it explores devotional material culture and the
ways in which we can think about these images, as
well as the spaces in which they were located.
M. 2pm (Week 1)
H. Guzik New Research in Early
Modern European
Pilgrimage
EWF6: Early Modern Europe,
1500-1700
Given its "golden age" in the twelfth century,
pilgrimage is commonly thought of, from a European
perspective, as a strictly medieval phenomenon.
Despite the demographic shifts that accompanied the
Reformation, pilgrimage did not cease to be a catalyst
for travel and encounters. Drawing on Helena’s
doctoral research into the pilgrimage involvement of
M. 2pm (Week 2)
fifteenth- and sixteenth-century ruling Italian elites,
this lecture will explore the logistics of and motivations
for undertaking both local and long-distance
pilgrimages in the shifting religio-political landscape of
early modern Europe. It will also examine the ways in
which objects commemorated these journeys and
linked them to everyday devotional practices.
L. Luiten New Research in Late-
Medieval and Early
Modern European
Dynastic History
EWF6: Early Modern Europe,
1500-1700
What are dynasties and how do they relate to the
emerging state system in early modern Europe? Why
did rulers spend vast amounts of resources and energy
pursuing claims to distant lands and (at times
imagined) titles? Recent research has re-centred
dynasty as a conceptual tool for understanding the
political history of late medieval and early modern
Europe, and has opened up new inroads to
comparison with dynasties across the globe. During
this lecture we will explore the new inroads made
possible by focusing on dynasties, address its
repercussions for our understanding of cultural
exchange in Europe, and discuss the relation between
dynasties and states.
M. 2pm (Week 3)
L. Morris New Research in
Transnational Military
History
EWF6: Early Modern Europe,
1500-1700
Soldiers are recognised to have been one of the most
mobile and distinctive social groups of the Long
Sixteenth Century, and ever since Geoffrey Parker’s
work tracing the ‘Spanish Road’ between Italy and the
Low Countries there has been keen interest in patterns
of military movement across the continent. Research
into similar topics has now broadened to consider
issues such as the survival of traditional mercenary
lifestyles amidst military reform, the role of
borderlands and defensive frontiers in spatial
imaginings, and how soldiers understood their own
identities within a transnational context. This lecture
M. 2pm (Week 4)
will address the cultural, political, and economic
impact of soldiers on the move, with a particular focus
on the Rhineland region which formed the epicentre of
a wide-ranging network of martial migration during
this era.
Pontiffs and Perverts: approaches to religious and queer history
I. McDole Faith and Power: Bishops,
Monks, and Princes in the
Tenth and Eleventh
Centuries
EWF2: The Early Medieval
World, 600-1000
EWF3: The Central Middle
Ages, 900-1300
The tenth and eleventh centuries saw bishops not only
as major political players, but also as shapers of the
new ruling dynasties in Europe. Fulbert of Chartres,
Gerbert d’Aurillac (Sylvester II), and Bruno of Toul (Leo
IX) were bishops who helped to shape and promote
the political culture around them. Using letter
collections and hagiographies, they asserted at least
moral authority over the local nobility as well as kings
and emperors; charter sources show how they worked
side by side secular rulers for their own benefit. The
Peace of God and Truce of God movements were also
developed at this time, but many bishops were also
military leaders, leading troops for secular leaders.
This lecture will evaluate the role of these three
bishops to see how they reconciled religious and
political authority in the administration of their
dioceses.
W. 3pm (Week 1)
A. Raw Gendered, Trans*, and
Queer Communities in
Medieval Europe
EWF2: The Early Medieval
World, 600-1000
EWF3: The Central Middle
Ages, 900-1300
This lecture will offer an introduction to queer
approaches to the medieval period. The practice of
queer history began with a genealogical project to see
ourselves, driven by a political and personal need to
write the history of ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ peoples – by
writing these identities into the narrative, we could
prove that we have always been here. This lecture will
first discuss the limits of the genealogical approach –
that is, the loss of time-specific identities rendered
W. 3pm (Week 2)
invisible by myopic application of modern identities,
and the imposition of modern identities onto historical
actors who did not view themselves in these terms.
We will consider the role of the historian – as Joan
Scott renders it, ‘to ‘expose categories as inadequate
and empty’ – and then turn to new methodologies and
practices within queer history, such as queer critical
history, and queering-as-method, to open out what a
queer lens reveals about medieval gender discourse.
New Research in Politics, Economy and Society in the Long Eighteenth Century
A. Lim Art and Power in late
Stuart England
BIF 4: Reformations and
Revolutions, 1500-1700
BIF5: Liberty, Commerce and
Power, 1685-1830
FS12: Court Culture and Art in
Early Modern Europe, 1580-
1700
This lecture will consider the art patronage of the late
Stuart court and some of its leading courtiers. It will
interrogate the role of the court in leading patronage
and fashion in the fine and decorative arts, and the
relationship between art and power in this period of
Restoration and Revolution. Against a backdrop of
shifting diplomatic allegiances and political alliances,
and drawing on new research into the patronage of
leading courtiers, it will explore how art was used to
reflect and maintain political power and status.
T. 2pm (Week 1)
B. Schneider Wages and Living
Standards in the Industrial
Revolution
BIF5: Liberty, Commerce and
Power, 1685-1830
BIF6: Power, Politics and the
People, 1815-1924
FS26: The Development of the
World Economy since 1800
This lecture will discuss the incentives to innovate in
the British Industrial Revolution and how
industrialization affected living standards, focusing on
recent contributions to the study of wages. Supposedly
high English wages have been identified as the spur to
innovation in the 18th century, but more careful
examination of the sources has revealed lower
earnings levels than previously thought. Wages have
also been used as the traditional measure of living
standards during the period of industrialization, and
the lecture will discuss key contributions and
T. 2pm (Week 2)
incorporate the recent literature into this lively
political and historiographical debate.
R. Manning Leisure and Cultural Life in
Long Eighteenth-Century
Britain
BIF5: Liberty, Commerce and
Power, 1685-1830
2019 marks the thirtieth anniversary of two major
contributions to the field of eighteenth-century
studies: Paul Langford’s A Polite and Commercial
People and Peter Borsay’s The English Urban
Renaissance. Exploring the historiography inspired by
these two books, this lecture will consider the
enduring importance of theories of ‘politeness’ and
‘urban renaissance’ for our understanding of British
leisure and cultural life during the period. Moving on
to highlight areas of ongoing historiographical debate,
the lecture will also seek to demonstrate the
continued potential for new provincial case studies to
provide fresh and informative perspectives in this area.
T. 2pm (Week 3)
The Global Left, 1945-1989
M. Woolgar New Research in
Southeast Asian
Communism since 1945
EWF14: The Global Twentieth
Century, 1930-2003
Politics and IR course
International Relations in the
Era of the Cold War
In the period after the Second World War,
communism played an important role in Southeast
Asia’s politics, in a context of ongoing decolonisation
and developing Cold War competition. Communism
influenced a range of movements, taking forms that
varied from guerrilla campaigns to parliamentary
parties. Communist regimes were eventually
established in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, though
elsewhere in the region they were successfully
suppressed, often violently. This lecture will explore
recent research that has seen scholars re-evaluate
communism’s contexts, drivers, and enemies in a
region where its legacies are still vividly felt.
W. 2pm (Week 1)
M. Myers Western European
Histories of the Left from
EWF14: The Global Twentieth
Century, 1930-2003
An overview of political and intellectual developments
on Western European left – from the extra-
parliamentary to the Communist Parties – during the
W. 2pm (Week 2)
1968 to the Rise of
Neoliberalism
long 1970s. The period saw both the flowering of
revolutionary expectations and imagined socialist
breakthrough across Western Europe in the aftermath
of 1968. This lecture will explore the contradictory
expression of the left’s response to its changing
industrial and electoral fortunes as the long 1968 gave
way to the rise of neoliberalism.
J-P. Stone Strikes and Discontent in
the French Empire and
Beyond from 1945 till
1950
EWF14: The Global Twentieth
Century, 1930-2003
The immediate post-war years in France and Europe
saw countless cities, factories and industries engulfed
in paralysing, divisive and deadly strike waves. From
Paris to Algiers, industrial action saw thousands of
miners, metal-workers, postmen, textile weavers and
teachers, belonging to multiple ethnicities and political
orientations, take to the streets for reasons often not
articulated fully or accurately by either Socialist,
Communist or trade union representatives at the time.
Demands for higher wages, lower prices and more
bread obscured and subsumed more subtle sources of
discontent. This lecture will therefore provide an
introduction to the latent anxieties, quiet frustrations
and powerful forces which drove such movements in
France and later spread to her colonial possessions,
principally in North Africa, and overseas apartments. In
addition, this lecture will briefly explore how strikes in
post-war France mirrored, and occasionally inspired,
similar movements and developments in neighbouring
Belgium, England, Poland, Czechoslovakia and even as
far afield as Latin America.
W. 2pm (Week 3)
N. Garland Ideologies of Community
on the British Left in the
1970s
BIF7: Changing Identities,
1900-present
While the word "community" is a constant feature of
politics on all sides of the political spectrum, it is a
heavily contested concept. As the cultural critic
Raymond Williams observed, 'community can be the
warmly persuasive word to describe an existing set of
W. 2pm (Week 4)
relationships, or the warmly persuasive word to
describe an alternative set of relationships. What is
most important, perhaps, is that unlike all other terms
of social organisation (state, nation, society, etc.) it
seems never to be used unfavourably and never to
give any positive opposing or distinguishing term.'
From the late 1960s and through the 1970s, a
bewildering array of political initiatives sprung up
across Britain’s towns and, especially, its cities,
concerned with the idea of community. The political
Left especially was preoccupied with the idea,
theorising and attempting to put into practice a wide
range of grassroots and elite initiatives to promote a
more participatory politics and to seek to make politics
more sensitive to the needs of communities. This
lecture will explore the different meanings attached to
community, and the continuities and contradictions
that existed within the explosion of "community
politics".
Exclusion and Outsiders in Early Modern England and France
E. Glassford New Research in
Xenophobia in London,
c.1450-1558
BIF4: Reformations and
Revolutions, 1500-1700
This lecture will explore xenophobia in London in the
period between the end of the Hundred Years’ War
and the beginning of Elizabeth I’s reign, examining the
primary groups of immigrants to London, the roles of
their communities in and around the city, and the
economic, social, and cultural factors involved in
tensions between them and native Londoners. In so
doing, the lecture will address cultural stereotypes of
strangers and what these perceptions and portrayals
reveal about Londoners’ own values and fears in the
period. The lecture will also grapple with previous
characterisations of anti-alien behaviour, instead
Th. 2pm (Week 1)
asserting that Londoners shared a cultural framework
of xenophobia and a common cultural vocabulary with
which to express it.
M. Innes New Research in
Sixteenth- and
Seventeenth-Century
Exclusion Crises in England
and France
EWF6: Early Modern Europe,
1500-1700
BIF4: Reformations and
Revolutions, 1500-1700
This lecture explores early modern English and French
politics at their breaking points, namely the periods
when disputed successions seemed to lie ahead. Both
political ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ sought to exclude
unwelcome candidates, whether for reasons of gender
or religion. With a particular focus on the crises of the
late 1580s, this lecture will consider both the content
of these debates, as well as the means through which
they were pursued. In so doing, it will explore some of
the connections between intellectual, political, and
cultural history in the early modern period.
Th. 2pm (Week 2)
A. Blackwood New Research in
Neighbourliness and
Honour in the Early
Modern English Parish
BIF4: Reformations and
Revolutions, 1500-1700
This lecture will explore the effects of religious change,
state policy and the economy on social hierarchy
within the English parish. Often the politics of the
parish are discussed from an external perspective, in
terms of local reactions to policies imposed from
above, but we will be shifting the focus to the internal
culture of honour and neighbourliness that dictated
the terms of inclusion or exclusion within parish
society. In particular, this lecture will examine the
diverging experiences of the 'better sort' of the parish
and the poor in the Elizabethan reign and illuminate
the gaps between state rhetoric and cultural realities.
Th. 2pm (Week 3)
New Approaches to Intellectual and Social thought in Medieval Europe
E. Lavallee
Medieval Intellectual and
Political Culture: From
Ideas to Action, c.1150 -
1300
EWF3: The Central Middle
Ages, 900-1300
The lecture will examine the influence of intellectual
ideas, primarily from the schools and universities, on
the rhetoric and practices of the political sphere in
England and France. It will look at key 'vectors' for
these ideas, such as the rise of mendicant preaching
F. 11am (Week 1)
BIF2: The British Isles in the
Central Middle Ages, 1000-
1330
and confession, as well as the historical sources that
help to illuminate these connections (sermons, biblical
commentaries, mirrors for princes, chronicles, etc.) It
will bring in my own research on conceptions of
counsel in the period as the primary case study, as well
as referencing the work of historians such as David
D'Avray, Alexander Murray, and Robert Bartlett.
H. Flatley New Research on
Medieval Iberia:
Christians, Muslims and
Jews in the Western
Mediterranean
EWF3: The Central Middle
Ages, 900-1300
EWF4: The Global Middle
Ages, 500-1500
The lecture will cover new approaches to
understanding interreligious interaction and exchange
in medieval Iberia. It will explore questions relating to
religious identities, religious violence and conflict, and
interactions between Christians, Muslims and Jews in
the 11th-13th centuries. The lecture will survey new
research that aims to cut through the traditional
binaries that have shaped historical inquiry in this
direction (reconquest vs crusade, tolerance vs
intolerance), covering cases in both Islamic al-Andalus
and Christian Iberia.
F. 11am (Week 2)
L. Caravaggi New Research in the
Italian City-communes:
good government in
theory and practice'.
EWF3: The Central Middle
Ages, 900-1300
The lecture will look at how high and late medieval
urban governments dealt with the problem of internal
conflict and divisions, and managed to achieve periods
of prosperity.
There will be three main points made in the lecture:
first, that the idea of good government in c.1200-1350
consisted of securing the material as well as spiritual
well-being of the citizens, and that this idea was not
only theorised in literary works and art, but that it also
drove political action; second, that because of internal
pluralism and competition, political stability depended
on collaboration between various parts of society, and
was not secured only by unprecedented levels of
political centralisation and legal/judiciary
developments, and that this kind of collaboration was
F. 11am (Week 3)
inspired by the ideas of good government discussed;
third, that the linear approach of current
historiography - of an irreversible path towards the
rise of autocratic rule (signorie) caused by the crisis of
communal institutions which could no longer contain
internal conflict - needs to be addressed and revised,
as the law and institutions were not the only elements
which secured political stability and good
government.
Global Powers: Empire and After
D. Green
New Approaches to
Religious Imperialism in
the 17th and 18th
Centuries
EWF11: Imperial and Global
History, 1750-1930
EWTd: Catholicism in the
Making of the Modern World,
1545-1970
FS10: The Iberian Global
Century, 1550-1650
This lecture will introduce students to the
historiographical treatment of the notion of ‘religious
imperialism’ in colonial America in the 17th and 18th
centuries. First, the concept will be introduced, along
with the key theoretical questions that have shaped its
discussion. The French, Spanish and British empires
will then be discussed in turn, with each section
structured around a central historical incident/episode
involving missionary work. Historiographical
arguments will then be applied to each case study to
illustrate their advantages and disadvantages.
Throughout, the lecture will emphasise the complex
relationship between indigenous peoples, missionaries
and the early modern imperial states as the key nexus
around which religious imperialism functioned. In
concluding, I will discuss the application of my own
work to these problems.
M. 9am (Week 1)
A. Jockyman
Roithmann
New Research on Latin
America: Empire and
Revolution, 1808-1852
FS10: The Iberian Global
Century, 1550-1650
FS37: Modern Mexico, 1876-
1994
What happens after empire? The flourishing of
independent, law-abiding nation-states born out of
revolution, or merely the rise of new empires, as
predatory as their predecessors? From the American
Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall, we are
W. 9am (Week 1)
FS35: Political Theory and
Social Science, c 1780-1920
EWF11: Imperial and Global
History, 1750-1930
EWF8: Enlightenments and
Revolutions: Europe, 1680-
1848
EWF10: A Liberal Epoch?
Europe, c. 1830-1914
BIF6: Power, Politics and the
People, 1815-1924
BIF5: Liberty, Commerce and
Power, 1685-1830
provided with arguments for each case, yet reality was
more complicated. Instead of a clear-cut division
between empires and nation-states, asymmetric
power relations developed in polycentric ways,
dictated not only by military conquest, but also
commercial and diplomatic entanglements. Following
the collapse of the Iberian American empires, Latin
America presented itself as a prime example of how
diverse actors competed to advance their own
revolutionary projects. Some saw the emerging states
as ‘sister republics’, which would cooperate to rid the
hemisphere of the last traces of imperial absolutist
rule; others saw their main task as the maintenance of
order, for which end authoritarian forms of
government and alliances with imperial powers might
prove necessary. Starting from the crisis occasioned by
Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of the Iberian
Peninsula, this lecture will first paint a general picture
of Latin America at the time of independence. We will
then focus on Brazil and the River Plate, analysing the
developments leading to the establishment of a
monarchy in Brazil and republics in Argentina and
Uruguay. By emphasising the various political
experiments and ‘failed’ states which dotted the
region over the first half of the nineteenth-century, we
hope to demonstrate the plurality of shapes taken by
revolutionary and independence movements. As we
discuss this period of political rearrangement, we will
also touch on historiographical debates around
republicanism, liberalism, and ‘informal empire’.
H. Cho
Empire and Knowledge:
New Research on
EWF14: The Global Twentieth
Century, 1930-2003
This lecture will help students cultivate a better
understanding of British presence in the Pacific region
during the 20th century. We will study the
M. 9am (Week 2)
Medicine and War in the
British Pacific
EWTb: Technology and
Culture in a Global Context,
1000-1700
EWTc: Waging War in Eurasia,
1200-1945
FS16: Medicine, Empire and
Improvement, 1720-1820
geographical and political scope of the British Empire
and will particularly focus on the South Pacific as it is
an exemplary region to examine the complex nature of
the British Empire. This much overlooked area consists
of various constituent layers of the Empire, such as
dominions, colonies, protectorates, condominiums,
and treaty-based ‘friendships’. We will also dive into
the case of transmitting scientific knowledge in
Oceania. British initiatives in native medical practice
and the development of international medical
cooperation will be discussed as well as the
contribution of local knowledge in the war against
Japan. Students will have a chance to practice using
primary sources in answering sample exam questions
relating to this topic.
H. Aldrich
Cold War in Africa: New
Approaches to Non-
Alignment and Pan-
Africanism
EWF14: The Global Twentieth
Century, 1930-2003
This lecture will explore the dynamics of the Cold War
in Africa. It will consider competing interpretations of
global superpower rivalry across the continent, and
analyse the impact of intervention on the African
political landscape. More importantly, this lecture will
emphasise the African agency at the centre of African
Cold War dynamics. It will explore the efforts of the
Non-Aligned Movement to challenge Cold War
paradigms and forge an alternate vision. Focusing on
Ghana, this lecture will explore the rise of Pan-
Africanism, and the ways in which Africans created
alternatives to this dominant conception of a world
order centred around global powers. Not only did this
competing vision transcend the nation-state, but it
also sought to empower Africans through a shared
anti-colonialist identity and new projects such as the
African Union. Students will have the opportunity to
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analyse a sample exam question and to utilise primary
source material in addressing it.
L. Stadler
New Approaches to the
Soviet Occupation of
Afghanistan, 1979-1992
EWF14: The Global Twentieth
Century, 1930-2003
This lecture will introduce students to the complex
background and developments surrounding the Soviet
occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. It will
also address the withdrawal of the Soviet armed forces
in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the
consequences thereof up until 1992. In preparation for
the upcoming examinations, it will unpack a sample
exam question, drawn from a past paper and in doing
so, will include new historiography as well as introduce
students to new primary source material which -
thanks to the Thirty-Year Rule – is now gradually
becoming declassified.
M. 9am (Week 3)
S. Philips New Approaches to The
History of the Asia-Pacific,
1898-1937
EWF11: Imperial and Global
History, 1750-1930
EWF12: The Making of
Modern America since 1863
EWF14: The Global Twentieth
Century, 1930-2003
FS 25: Modern Japan, 1868-
1972
FS 28: A World at War, 1914-
1919
By the turn of the twentieth century, many were
prophesying the emergence of a ‘Pacific Age’, an
era in which the Asia-Pacific would increasingly
establish itself as the centre of the world’s economic
and political gravity. The emergence of Japanese and
American Empires as significant regional powers,
coupled with a Chinese state in a revolutionary mood
and settler states (including Australia and Chile) lining
the ocean’s rim proclaiming their own regional
destinies sought to provide clinching evidence of this
impending transformation. This lecture will introduce
students to some of the major themes that
underpinned the dramatic transformation of the
Asia-Pacific region in the first four decades of the
twentieth century, book-ended by the conclusion of
the Spanish-American War and the beginning of
Second World War in East Asia.
The first half of the lecture will introduce students to
some of the key themes and historiography
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through which to explore this regional history: imperial
expansionism and geopolitics, race and anti-
colonialism. The second half of the lecture will explore
the emergence and significance of
pan-regional thought. Pan-Asianism will be contrasted
with a less frequently theorised alternative,
the Pan-Pacific. Amidst the hybridity of these visions,
both conceptions sought to sustain the idea of large
regions as coherent global spaces, both attempted to
foster regional solidarities to
contend with purportedly common problems and both
sustained a politics of inclusion as well as
exclusion. As a result of these deliberate attempts at
boundary-crossing, we will explore how
these ideas bolstered and challenged ideas of nation
and empire in the Asia-Pacific. Approaching the topic
as a macro-regional or sub-global history, the lecture
will also encourage students to consider the usefulness
(and indeed the drawbacks) of such a large-scale
approach.
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