Event details
Columbia World Projects and The Joint Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge are delighted to announce their new online seminar series on Barriers and Borders.
The seminar puts a spotlight on exciting new research that brings sustained conceptual, analytical, and historical attention to the causes and consequences of constructing (or reconstructing) barriers and borders.
Each seminar consists of a conversation between two scholars. The introductions to the books discussed in this seminar will be pre-circulated among registered participants. Audio recordings of the events will be posted shortly after each event.
This is the first seminar in the series.
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Border-Making: State-Building and Geopolitics
6pm CEST (Paris), 5pm BST (London), 12pm EST (New York)
Thomas Simpson (University of Cambridge)
The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Sören Urbansky (German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.)
Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border (Princeton University Press, 2020)
Moderators: Franziska Exeler (Cambridge/FU Berlin), Kalyani Ramnath (Harvard)