Contact: imperial1919unt@gmail.com
Conference Date: April 19-20, 2019
CfP Deadline for Papers and Panels: December 31, 2018.
Roundtable Participant Proposal Deadline: January 31, 2019.
Undergraduate Student Poster Competition Proposal Deadline: February 15, 2019.
Journalist and author Shrabani Basu will provide a distinguished lecture on Indian soldiers related to her recent work: For King and Another Country (2015). Prior to the conference, she will also host a screening of Victoria and Abdul, a film based on her book of the same name. Historian of the British Empire Dr. Susan Kingsley Kent will provide the keynote address. Her esteemed works include Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931 (2009); The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria (2011) and The Global Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (2012). Continue reading
