Global History and Culture Centre
4.30 pm in H023 on Wednesday, 10th October 2012
Minutes
1. Attendance
Present: Anne Gerritsen (chair), Maxine Berg, Giorgio Riello, Howard Chiang, Ross
Forman, Felicia Gottman, Bronwen Everill, Chris Nierstrasz, Dan Branch, Amy
Evans (sec.), Anna Boneham
Apologies: Gurminder Bhambra, David Hardiman, Hanna Hodacs, Rosa Salzberg,
Bishnu Gupta
2. Welcome
AG welcomed everyone to the meeting, including Howard Chiang, who has joinded
the History Department in September, and Ross Forman, who joined the English
Department in 2011.
3. Minutes of the last meeting
Minutes of the last meeting (11 Jan 12) were circulated and approved.
4. Membership of the Centre
Members agree that we need strategically to bring in to people who are from
different backgrounds and disciplines. A few names were put forward: Alice Brooke
(History Dept, Latin American studies); Fabienne Viala (Hispanic Studies,
f.viala@warwick.ac.uk); Ashok Malhotra (BA postdoctoral fellow in English,
A.P.Malhotra@warwick.ac.uk) and Tara Puri (IAS Global research fellow, based in
English). Action: AG will contact them to invite them for an upcoming Centre
activity.
5. Events
a. Upcoming events in the calendar
The Centre has a full programme of events for the Autumn and Spring terms.
In addition of this busy schedule, we have one workshop planned at the V&A
and a final conference in December of the ‘Global Commodities’ project; the
Venice conference of the ‘Trading Eurasia’ project; and several events
associated with our IAS Visiting Fellow, Prasenjit Duara (and Dana Leibsohn
in the summer term).
b. Summer term workshops:
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Centre AGM is set in May with a public lecture by Emeritus Prof David
Arnold.
Possible events include a lecture associated with Dan Branch’s
‘Empire Loyalists’ project; and a workshop on ‘Companies’ (Chris
Nierstrasz speaker).
Further ideas and suggestions are welcome.
6. Longer-term plans
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We need to think about further long-term funding for the Centre
(ongoing);
To continuously raise the Centre’s visibility, suggestions included:
I. Regular annual 2-day conference on relevant and generic theme,
with around 80-100 people, outside of term, financially supported
mainly in part by research grants, and in part by registration fees;
II. Establish an annual broad theme, to invite people as speakers or
panels from further afield and different disciplines to broaden the
research topic and area;
III. Consider organising the Centre’s own ‘distinguished lecture
series’ (suggestions of names are welcome):
IV. Consider publications, such as book series and publications of
conference/workshop papers; publishers as Palgrave, Ashgate
may be considered;
V. Organise Summer Schools, to combine with University funding;
VI. Planning ahead for IAS Visiting Fellowship for 2013-14, potential
candidate - Deidre Coleman (Melbourne).
7. GHCC fund
a. Applications
Centre should focus on supporting members’ research activities, conference
attendance and creating network etc.
b. Deadlines
There are two deadlines for current academic year, 15 Oct and 1 Feb, which
are open to all Warwick staff and postgrads. It’s been suggested to add a Dec
deadline round for Centre members only, for collaborating with
interdisciplinary colleagues or external scholars etc.
8. Date of next meeting
4pm, 16 January 2013.
9. AOB
Having recently attended the conference on New Direction in Global History,
organised by The Oxford Centre for Global History, Maxine suggests we invite
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Prof Nicholas Purcell (Oxford), Jan de Vries (Berkeley) as speakers for next
year;
II. Consider a joint event with the Oxford Centre for Global History for next year.