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SUMMARY:Oxford Centre for Global History Inaugural Anthony Gwilliam Annual
  Lecture: Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The Black Death and the rise of Europe - 
 Professor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth Histor
 y\, University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday 14 October 2022 at 16:00 for the Oxford Cent
 re for Global History's Inaugural 'Anthony Gwilliam' Annual Lecture by \n*
 *Professor James Belich** (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth His
 tory) on “Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
 ”\n\nThe lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Robin Gef
 fen Cafeteria. \n\n**Lecture Abstract**\nIn 1346\, Europe and its neighbou
 rs were beset by a terrible plague\, whose pathogen was Yersina Pestis. It
  halved populations\, and repeat strikes prevented recovery for centuries.
  It came to be called 'The Black Death' and this lecture argues that it tr
 iggered Western Europe's global expansion.\n\nThe lecture offers a new two
 -word answer to an old two-word question: Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The plagu
 e not only halved populations\, but also doubled the per capita endowment 
 of everything. For the first time\, many Europeans had disposable incomes.
  Demand for silks\, sugar\, spices\, furs\, slaves and gold all grew. Soon
  after the Black Death\, Europeans began reaching out beyond their own con
 tinent to meet these demands. To these motives for expansion\, plague adde
 d the means. Labour scarcity drove more use of water-power\, wind-power an
 d gunpowder. Many technologies - water-powered blast furnaces\, heavily-gu
 nned galleons\, musketry\, eye-glasses - were 'pressure-cooked' into exist
 ence or florescence by plague\, as was a new social formation\, “crew cu
 lture”\, which provided the manpower.\n\nIf plague had this effect in Eu
 rope\, why didn’t the Middle East expand too - it also suffered from the
  Black Death? This lecture’s answer is that it did: Ottoman and Safavid 
 empires also flourished after plague. Morocco\, Oman\, and the Mughals est
 ablished colonial empires\, at a distance from their homelands like those 
 of Europe. Early modern “European” expansion was actually West Eurasia
 n.\n\nFind out more here:\nhttps://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford-globa
 l-history-centre-inaugural-anthony-gwilliam-annual-lecture\nSpeakers:\nPro
 fessor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History\,
  University of Oxford)
LOCATION:H B Allen Centre\, Keble College\, Banbury Road\, Oxford OX2 6NN
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SUMMARY:Indian Arrivals\, 1870-1915 - Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World L
 iterature in English\, University of Oxford)\, Megan Robb (Junior Research
  Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies\, University of Oxford)\, Fai
 sal Devji (University Reader in Modern South Asian History\, University of
  Oxford)\, Santanu Das (Reader of English Literature\, Kings College Londo
 n)\, Professor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth H
 istory\, University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English\, Uni
 versity of Oxford) will discuss her book Indian Arrivals\, 1870-1915: Netw
 orks of British Empire with Megan Robb (Junior Research Fellow at Oxford C
 entre for Islamic Studies\, University of Oxford)\, Faisal Devji (Universi
 ty Reader in Modern South Asian History\, University of Oxford) and Santan
 u Das (Reader of English Literature\, Kings College London). The discussio
 n will be introduced and chaired by Professor James Belich (Beit Professor
  of Imperial and Commonwealth History\, University of Oxford).\n\nAbout th
 e book\nElleke Boehmer's book Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of Briti
 sh Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural con
 tact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire\,
  as reflected in a range of literary writing\, including poetry and life-w
 riting. The book's four decade-based case studies\, leading from 1870 and 
 the opening of the Suez Canal\, to the first years of the Great War\, inve
 stigate from several different textual and cultural angles the central pla
 ce of India in the British metropolitan imagination at this relatively ear
 ly stage for Indian migration. Focussing on a range of remarkable Indian '
 arrivants' -- scholars\, poets\, religious seekers\, and political activis
 ts including Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu\, Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindrana
 th Tagore -- Indian Arrivals examines the take-up in the metropolis of the
  influences and ideas that accompanied their transcontinental movement\, i
 ncluding concepts of the west and of cultural decadence\, of urban moderni
 ty and of cosmopolitan exchange.\n\n"Elleke Boehmer blends the delicate in
 sights of the literary critic with the art of the storyteller to investiga
 te the arrivals of Indian writers\, scholars and students in London in the
  late nineteenth century." - Santanu Das (Reader in English Literature\, K
 ings College London).\n\nA light sandwich lunch will be available from 12:
 45\, and sandwiches can be taken into the discussion. No advance booking r
 equired\, please just come along and seats will be allocated on a first-co
 me\, first-served basis.\n\nSpeakers:\nElleke Boehmer (Professor of World 
 Literature in English\, University of Oxford)\, Megan Robb (Junior Researc
 h Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies\, University of Oxford)\, Fa
 isal Devji (University Reader in Modern South Asian History\, University o
 f Oxford)\, Santanu Das (Reader of English Literature\, Kings College Lond
 on)\, Professor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth 
 History\, University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Radcliffe Humanities (Seminar Room)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
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DESCRIPTION:Talk:Indian Arrivals\, 1870-1915 - Elleke Boehmer (Professor o
 f World Literature in English\, University of Oxford)\, Megan Robb (Junior
  Research Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies\, University of Oxfo
 rd)\, Faisal Devji (University Reader in Modern South Asian History\, Univ
 ersity of Oxford)\, Santanu Das (Reader of English Literature\, Kings Coll
 ege London)\, Professor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commo
 nwealth History\, University of Oxford)
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