EVENT

Seminar 1

Date and time

Tuesday, 26 November 2019, 17:00-19:30 (Venue opens at 16:30)

Venue

Room C5, 17th Floor, Global Front Building, Meiji University

Map

Entry fee

Free

Language

English

Sponsor

Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer

Time Table

17:00-18:00 Presentation Dr. Andrew Dilley, “Economics, Culture and Governance in the Empire-Commonwealth, 1886-1975”
18:00-18:10 Short break
18:10-18:40 Self-introduction by the audience
18:40-19:30 Question & Answer
Chair Mahito Takeuchi (Nihon University)

Speaker’s Profile

Dr. Andrew Dilley is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Global History and School Director of Research for the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. His research focuses on the politics and economics of the British Empire and Commonwealth. His first book, Finance, Politics, and Imperialism (Palgrave-Macmillan Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series, 2012), re-examined the political implications of debt in Australia and Canada, and he has published numerous article-length pieces on finance and empire. His new research project, supported by an AHRC Early Career Fellowship, reconsiders the political economy of the Commonwealth of Nations from 1886-1975 and will culminate in a book, Commerce and the Commonwealth: Business Associations, Political Culture and Economic Governance, 1886-1975, under contract with Oxford University Press.



Seminar 2

Date and time

Thursday, 28 November 2019, 14:00-18:00 (Venue opens at 13:30)

Venue

Room C6, 17th Floor, Global Front Building, Meiji University

Map

Entry fee

Free

Language

English

Sponsor

Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer

Time Table

14:00-15:00 Presentation (1) Dr. Rachel Bright, “Migration, Naturalisation and the ‘British’ World, c.1900-1945”
15:00-15:50 Question & Answer
15:50-16:10 Short break
16:10-17:10 Presentation (2) Dr. Felicity Barnes, “The Importance of Being ‘British’? Australia, New Zealand and the Cultural Economy of Empire in the Interwar Era”
17:10-18:00 Question & Answer
Chair Mahito Takeuchi (Nihon University)

Speaker’s Profile

Dr. Rachel Bright is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Commonwealth History at Keele University. She specialises in modern South African and Australian migration history and her publications include numerous articles and Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902-10: Race, Violence, and Global Spectacle (Palgrave-Macmillan Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series, 2013). That book explored why Chinese indentured labour was imported into South Africa at the height of ‘yellow’ and ‘black’ perils within settler societies. She is currently researching the creation of a migration system within South Africa and Australia, and how this connects to modern global systems of migration control.

Dr. Felicity Barnes is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland and a New Zealand historian with a particular interest in imperial connections and settler cultures. Her book New Zealand’s London: A Colony and its Metropolis, published by Auckland University Press in 2012, explores London’s role in New Zealand’s culture, from around the end of what we often think of as the colonial period – around the close of the nineteenth century – up until the 1980s. She is now working on a wider project which will reconsider issues of culture and identity across the former white settler colonies of New Zealand, Australia and Canada.