Conference: New Worlds of the East India Company SOLD OUT

New Worlds of the East India Company

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5 July 2024

Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HD

9.30. Coffee

9:45. Introduction: John McAleer (Southampton) and Joshua Ehrlich (Macau)

10:00. Panel 1: Beginnings, Ends, and Legacies

• Rupali Mishra (Auburn): ‘The “Idea” of Government and Authority in the Early East India Company’
• Guido van Meersbergen (Warwick): ‘Revisiting East India Company Diplomacy: The William Norris Embassy to Mughal India (1699–1702)’
• Giorgio Riello (EUI) and Guillemette Crouzet (EUI): ‘Rethinking “French” and “British” India: The “Diary” of Ananda Ranga Pillai’
• John McAleer (Southampton): ‘“In the spacious times of old”: The Afterlife of the East India Company, 1899–1909’

11:30. Panel 2: Labour, Knowledge, and Networks

• Margaret Makepeace (British Library): ‘The World of the East India Company London Warehouse Labourers, 1800–1858’
• Jessica Hanser (Copenhagen): ‘Slavery, Servitude, and the East India Company in China’
• Anna Winterbottom (McGill): ‘Politics of Medicine and Natural Knowledge in Madras, c. 1789–1809’
• Joshua Ehrlich (Macau): ‘Two Muttiahs and the Making of Company Power in South India’

13:00. Lunch

14:00. Panel 3: Art and Visual Culture

• Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin): ‘A Portrait of the Mercenary as a Nobleman: Persianate Prosopography and Colonial Portraiture in Company School Art’
• Jennifer Howes (Independent): ‘“A Needless Profusion”: The East India Company’s unwitting Patronage of the Arts under Richard Wellesley (1800–1805)’
• Tom Young (Courtauld): ‘Amateur Art and the East India Company’s Civil Service, c. 1800–58’
• Brooke Krancer (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven) and Anita Dey (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven), ‘Chromatic Confluence: The East India Company and the Materiality of British Art’

15.30. Tea

16:00. Panel 4: Protest and Scandal

• Cheryl Fury (University of New Brunswick): ‘“I willed no more peas to be given the company”: Provisioning, Protest and “ApPEASement” in Early East India Company Voyages’
• Callie Wilkinson (LMU Munich): ‘Bearing Witness in Wartime: Unauthorized Disclosures in the East India Company’s Armies, 1780–1850’
• Nicholas Hoover Wilson (Stony Brook): ‘“To operate upon the root of the evil”: Charles Trevelyan and the Arc of Company Corruption’
• Andrea Major (Leeds): ‘Critics of the Company: Challenging East India Company Colonialism in Manchester, Calcutta, and Delhi, 1838–1843’

17:30. Conclusion.