{"id":693,"date":"2014-10-31T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=693"},"modified":"2015-02-11T21:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:00:52","slug":"forthcoming-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/forthcoming-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Forthcoming Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The Centre is hosting an informal research seminar on\u00a0\u00a0<strong>&#8216;Revolutions and Empires in the South-West Indian Ocean, 1788-1810&#8217;<\/strong> by\u00a0Dr Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge), on\u00a0Thursday 6 November, at 2pm,\u00a02N8 (History Department Seminar Room) in the\u00a0Arts\u00a0Building.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Dr Sivasundaram is a\u00a0Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and Reader of History at Cambridge. He is well known for his work on the history of science and his scholarship spans both the Indian and Pacific Oceans. he is author of\u00a0<i>Nature<\/i><i>\u00a0and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850<\/i>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2005) and\u00a0<i>Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony\u00a0<\/i>(University of Chicago Press, 2013).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>CROCC\u00a0is also sponsoring a public lecture by\u00a0Professor A.G. Hopkins, (University of Cambridge) entitled, <strong>&#8216;Is Globalisation Yesterday&#8217;s News?&#8217;.<\/strong> This will be held on\u00a0Monday, 10 November 2014 at 5:15pm in the Moot Court, Level 10, Richardson Building. Professor Hopkins is one of the leading economic historians of his generation and he has produced authoritative works on West African economic history (<i>An Economic History of West Africa<\/i>\u00a0(1973)), the economics of British imperialism (the landmark two-volume\u00a0<i>British Imperialism<\/i>\u00a0co-authored with Peter Cain) and was one of the first historians to grapple with the analytical possibilities of globalisation (editing both\u00a0<i>Globalization in World History<\/i>\u00a0(2002) and\u00a0<i>Global History: Interactions between the Universal and the Local<\/i>\u00a0(2006)). Professor Hopkins has provided\u00a0the\u00a0following\u00a0abstract, which suggests it should be an engaging lecture:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Globalization\u00a0envelopes the world \u2013 and historians too. The \u2018g\u2019 word is now mandatory in\u00a0titles of books and articles; Ph.D. students follow their leaders in\u00a0dedicating\u00a0their dissertations to the subject. Yet, not so long ago postmodern approaches\u00a0to the past were equally compelling: if you could not tell your trope\u00a0from your\u00a0alterity and your Spivak from your Bhaba, your chances of landing a job were\u00a0minimal. Wise investors buy at the bottom of the market and get out at\u00a0the top.\u00a0So, it is worth asking whether shares in globalization have further to run or\u00a0whether full value is already in the market. One way of answering this\u00a0question\u00a0is by considering the reasons why historiographical phases, like empires, rise,\u00a0flourish, and decline. This approach provides pointers to the current\u00a0state of\u00a0globalization studies and offers an estimate of the current value of the\u00a0shares.\u00a0\u00a0The advice comes with a wealth\u00a0warning: past performance has limited\u00a0predictive power. As a famous trumpeter\u00a0remarked when asked which way jazz was going: \u2018man, if I knew which way jazz\u00a0was going, I would be there already!\u2019<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre is hosting an informal research seminar on\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;Revolutions and Empires in the South-West Indian Ocean, 1788-1810&#8217; by\u00a0Dr Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge), on\u00a0Thursday 6 November, at 2pm,\u00a02N8 (History Department Seminar Room) in the\u00a0Arts\u00a0Building. Dr Sivasundaram is a\u00a0Fellow of Gonville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17443,17463],"tags":[34038,34035,34036,34037],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-lecture","category-research-seminar","tag-a-g-hopkins","tag-globalization","tag-indian-ocean","tag-sujit-sivasundaram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}