LSE-Sciences Po Seminar in Contemporary International Seminar
Call for Papers

The LSE-Sciences Po (CHSP) Seminar un Contemporary International History invites proposals for the 2022 Michaelmas Term (October-December)

The seminar welcomes papers form advanced PhD students and early career researchers on any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history, broadly defined. We welcome a wide range of different historical approaches including research exploring transnational networks, non-state actors, and geographies beyond the Global North.

The seminar is an ideal environment to workshop work-in-progress. Presenters will be asked to submit a 15-20 pages paper ten days before their presentation, which will be circulated to participants beforehand. During the seminar, presenters will introduce their work for no more than 15 minutes followed by comments from a discussant and wider Q&A discussion.

All seminars will be held on Zoom on Wednesdays from 4-6 pm GMT / 5-7 pm CET.

Applicants should submit a provisional title, a brief 250-words abstract, and a CV by Friday 22 July 2022 using this form. 

Graduate student coordinators: Stefano Chessa Altieri (Sciences Po, Centre for History) and Fionntan O'Hara (LSE)
Faculty conveners: Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po, Centre for History) and Elizabeth Ingleson (LSE)

In colonial India, the British were sojourners rather than settlers. They ruled over millions that were culturally, racially, and religiously distinctfrom Europeans. From the late eighteenth-century, after the establishment of colonial rule from 1757, the British began to segregate themselves, culturally, socially, and spatially, from their entanglements with native populations in the subcontinent. The colonial government consistently sought to keep the cost of governance to a minimum by for example, limiting its responsibility for the care of the millions they ruled over. Native charity and philanthropy were expected and encouraged to pay, wholly or in part, for the religious, medical, charitable, and educational infrastructure for natives. In contrast to this infrastructure for the native inhabitants of the subcontinent, how was a sojourner population expected to establish an infrastructure for Europeans? Who would take care of the European poor? This paper focuses on native charitable contributions for the benefit of Europeans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in western India. It reveals that native charitable gifting practices contributed to the creation of a European religious and charitable infrastructure for what I call, in contrast to settler colonialism, sojourner colonialism.

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Preeti Chopra, Department of Art History University of Wisconsin-Madison and Visiting Professor, Centre for History, Sciences Po

Discussant: Florence Bernault, Centre for History, Sciences Po.

The presentation will be followed by a discussion.

24 June, 2022
10:30-12:00

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