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C19c One-Day Conference: 28 April 2025, Parliament Hall

‘The critical lenses of the c19thc Global South’

Programme

8.45-9am        Welcome and Introduction to the Conference: Professor Will Fowler (Plenary and Afternoon Panel Chair) and Professor Mary Orr (Morning Panels’ Chair)

9-10am           Oceania and Amazonia

Professor Susau Solomona (National University of Samoa) and Professor Emma Sutton (English)

Musical cultures in colonial Oceania: history and methodologies

Professor Mark Harris (Monash University)

Thinking about the invention of Amazonia from the Global South

10-10:30         Coffee & Tea break

10:30-11:30    India

Maitrayee Roychoudhury (English)

Missing! The Indian Female Detective in the Long Nineteenth Century

Sudarshana Banerjee (History)

Exploring St. Andrews – India connections in the long 19th century

11:30-12:30    Plenary

Professor Patience Schell (Aberdeen)

“‘Engrave these rules on your heart’: Manuel Antonio Carreño’s Iconic 1853 Etiquette Guide as Social Project and Utopian Vision”

12:30-13:30    Lunch

13:30-14:30    East and Southeast Asia

Dr Andrew Cusack (Modern Languages)

José Rizal’s Noli me tángere (1887): A Critical Lens on (Post)colonial Violence Then and Now

Professor Christos Lynteris (Social Anthropology)

Rats and Sera in the White Pagoda: Vincent Rouffiandis’s 1902 Plague Mission to Fuzhou

14:30-15:00    Roundtable discussion led by Prof. Will Fowler, Prof. Mary Orr and Dr Dave Evans: ‘The critical lenses of the c19thc Global South’