Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and the Annual Lecture of the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons!
Lecturer
Gunnel Cederlöf, Linnaeus University
Gunnel Cederlöf is Professor of History at Linnaeus University and a member of the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Her research combines environmental history, legal history, and colonial and British imperial history. It connects global and local history, and has a particular focus on early modern and modern India. Gunnel is author and editor of numerous publications, including The Imperial Underbelly Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia (Routledge, 2022), 'Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces: An Introduction' (with Willem van Schendel, Amsterdam University Press, 2022), Landscapes and the law: Environmental politics, regional histories, and contests over nature (OUP 2019), Founding an empire on India's north-eastern frontiers, 1790-1840: Climate, commerce, polity (OUP, 2013).
Title
Armed and Bureaucratic Violence: Forms of British imperial conquest in Southeast Asian Contested Tracts
The seminar will be held in English.
Please register if you want to participate via Zoom.
Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
