Department of English
UPE – II Sponsored
International Seminar-cum-Workshop
Researching and Writing Colonial Cultural History:
London and India in the 19th Century
12 Feb. 2016
ASIHSS Hall, Dept. of English
10 AM
Revolving around the Victorian era and the heyday of imperial England this seminar-cum-workshop offers modes of researching and writing about select aspects of the cultural history of colonialism.
We hope to bring in students of History, Comparative Literature and English Studies of the University of Hyderabad but also others from the city's institutions.
Resource Persons: Professor Kate Teltscher, Roehampton Institute, London; Professor Dilip Das, EFL-University.
Professor Teltscher will speak on 'Cataloguing the Resources of Empire: George Watt's Dictionary of the Economic Products of India (1885-93)'. Her component of the workshop, for which materials will be circulated in advance, will focus on 'The Language of Empire'
Professor Dilip Das will speak on the cultural history of disease and his component of the workshop, for which materials will be circulated in advance, will look at 19th century popular cultural texts about disease.
Professor Teltscher is the author of the field-defining India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India, 1600-1800 (1995). Besides this work, she has published The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet (2006)and is the editor of the Oxford World Classics edition of H. Yule, A.C. Burnell's 19th century text, Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India (2013). Her essays have appeared in The Global Eighteenth Century, The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, Interventions, Postcolonial Studies and other places. Professor Teltscher is currently working on the cultural history of the Kew Gardens.
Professor Dilip Das has worked extensively on cultural representations of disease, particularly AIDS.
Pramod K. Nayar
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