Visiting Fellows 2011-12

 

Cultures and Politics of the Transregional

Michaelmas Term 2011

Dr Pieter R Adriaens
University of Leuven
Culture-bound syndromes and psychiatric classification: A philosophical perspective

Professor Robert Aldrich
University of Sydney
Exiling Potentates: Colonial Governments and the Banishment of Indigenous Rulers

Professor Claudio Aporta
Carleton University, Ottawa
The Northwest Passage and the construction of Inuit pan-Arctic identities

Professor Giuliana Giusti
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Structural Protocols for linguistic awareness enhancing language identity

Lent Term 2012

Dr Lisa Hodgetts
University of Western Ontario
HMS Investigator as a locus of transregional exchange and debates in the Western Canadian Arctic

Professor Robert Rouse
University of British Columbia
Writing the World: The Regional and Transregional Geographies of Medieval Romance

Dr Meredith Terretta
University of Ottawa
Local to Global: Human Rights and Anti-colonialism in Africa’s UN Trust Territories

Dr Leslie Topp
Birkbeck College, University of London
Confinement Amid Flux: Asylum Boundaries in Early 20th-Century Central Europe

Professor Dirk Uffelmann
University of Passau
Towards a Cyberlinguistic Definition of Eurasia  

Easter Term 2012

Professor Farid Ahamed
Chittagong University
Migration Aspirations and their Transformative Effects on the Integration of Bangladeshi Migrants in the UK

Professor Rachel Cowgill
University of Cardiff

Empire, Internationalism and Remembrance in British Musical Culture, 1918-1939

Dr Annu Jalais
Jawaharial Nehru University/ London School of Economics
Religion, Community, and the Working Classes of Bengal

Mr Andrew F Jones
University of California, Berkeley
Circuit Listening: Electric Folk Music and the Chinese 1960s 

Dr Monica Popescu
McGill University
Postcolonial Cultures and the Cold War 

Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow
Dr Sucheta Bhattacharya
Jadavpur University

The Mysterious Women of G W M Reynolds and their Indian Sisters: A Study in Cross-cultural Transformations of the Female Figure in Popular Culture