11/20/2023 0 Comments New port map colonies![]() Keen to contribute to the Oxford-Berlin Partnership and to add to its interdisciplinary spirit, CPAGH will host a workshop in Oxford in Michaelmas 2019 that will involve but not be limited to participants from Berlin. CPAGH’s first conference brought together scholars from five continents and cutting-edge expertise from such fields as Archaeology, Area Studies, English, History, Italian and Comparative Literature, Musicology, Sociology and Visual Anthropology. Adding to the keynotes by historian Leila Fawaz (Tufts) and musicologist Benjamin Walton (Cambridge), and the various panels of individual papers was the World Café, a participatory workshop to kick off the proceedings. On 2 and, CPAGH returned to St Luke’s Chapel to host its international interdisciplinary conference, ‘Sensing Colonial Ports and Global History: Agency, Affect, Temporality’. The guided talks were enthusiastically received by museum visitors from a range of age groups and nationalities. Central to this activity were its three sensory-themed stations – tasting/smelling, seeing/feeling, hearing/listening – with various museum objects and stimulating short talks by CPAGH’s co-founders, highlighting such themes as slavery, migration and colonial collecting practices. On Saturday 9 March 2019, CPAGH collaborated with the Pitt Rivers Museum for a PER activity titled ‘Global Ports: Postcolonial Enclosures?’. The event concluded with a lively provocative discussion. Key to the launch were position statements from CPAGH’s advisors and invited panellists musical interludes performed by a student ensemble and a sound work on the theme ‘Colonial Ports: Nodes of Global History?’. On Thursday 8 November 2018, CPAGH’s multimedia launch took place at the Grade II listed St Luke’s Chapel and attracted a full house. ![]() ![]() Crucially, it is in emphasising a shared enterprise that CPAGH advocates a new knowledge exchange across disciplinary canons, and a global research ethics attuned to questions of access and local narratives.ĬPAGH is fortunate to have a team of advisors with related and richly varied expertise: Prof Elleke Boehmer (English, Wolfson), Prof Erica Charters, (History, Wolfson), Prof James McDougall (History, Trinity) and Prof David Pratten (Social Anthropology, St Antony’s). In doing so, CPAGH aims to engender a more comprehensive, widely intelligible and post-Eurocentric approach to studying colonialism in global history, underlying asymmetries of power, and their enduring legacies across time and place.ĬPAGH’s co-founders, moreover, take a particular interest in postcolonial theory and decolonial praxis, and the ways these can pluralistically enrich the practice of global history, taking into account but also venturing beyond global history’s western-centric paradigms. CPAGH aims, therefore, to facilitate and further such a dialogue through targeted activities, connecting archival and ethnographic researchers on related questions of epistemology, historiography and agency and interfacing these researchers with such stakeholders as archivists, curators, performing musicians, A-Level students and adult learners. Indeed, while colonial ports vary greatly in their political, historical, economic and socio-cultural conditions, their impact on the ways researchers (re)map and (re)interpret knowledge is best substantiated through a vibrant exchange that is comparative, relational and multicultural in perspective. ![]() In doing so, CPAGH aims to explore – through boundary-crossing conversations across and beyond the Humanities – the salient concerns of methodology, pedagogy and equitable knowledge in the practice of global history, and in academies of the twenty-first century. With that potentiality in mind, CPAGH aims to revisit, in democratic and provocative ways, the constructed idea of the ‘colonial port’, with a view to disentangling (but not automatically divorcing) such an idea from lingering narratives of Anglo-imperial and maritime history. ![]() Although the concepts, methodologies and languages that inform this research often transcend disciplinary ‘borders’, colonial ports, to date, have often been researched in isolation rather than synergistically. Colonial Ports and Global History (CPAGH)įounded in 2018, CPAGH is an interdisciplinary network at TORCH that fosters collaborative thinking about colonial ports and global history, creates an exciting and diverse hub of related expertise, and brings together scholars and practitioners across a range of career stages and cultural backgrounds.Ĭolonial ports are dynamic nodes of political, economic and socio-cultural activity, connecting people, ideas and objects and, thus, playing a key role in shaping global history as a practice. ![]()
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