The Centre for Port and Maritime History hosts an annual interdisciplinary conference, with a different theme each year. In 2012 we invited colleagues to talk on. Port City Lives, in 2013 our topic was The Otherness of Port Cities, in 2014 we discussed Vectors, and in 2015 we looked at Environmental Histories.

An AHRC International Research Network. Welcome to the Global City, Past and Present! By some our participants. Map of Lima, 1655.

Africa Critical will attempt to recentre Africa as a source for and mirror of a spatial politics that is rendering a new map of global capital. How can humanistic inquiries begin to move away from the monumental to suggest a holistic yet critical mode to address these incursions? Founded at the University of Sydney in 1996 and now in .

Saturday, May 23, 2015. The Calcutta Rhinoceros, The Fashion Statement in Eighteenth Century Europe. Calcutta Confusion is very happy to publish its first, inaugural guest-post written by Dr. I speak here of Clara, the rhinoceros. Songs, poems and letters were written about her and the French navy named one of its ships, Rhinoceros. And the third, a painting by Pietro Longhi from Venice, now hangs in the National Galler.

1754 and 1954, two years that are two-hundred years apart; yet both are French departures from India. 1754 is the year that Joseph François Dupleix, the influential Governor General of the French trading posts in India, left the country. 1954 is the year in which sovereignty of the French possessions in India passed to the Union of Indian States. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.

September, Pre-RGS-IBG Conference 2015, Exeter.