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Underhill Keynote Address: Antoinette Burton
March 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Location: | 303 Paterson Hall |
Cost: | Free |
Antoinette Burton
“Naturalists’ Views of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42)”
Dr. Antoinette Burton, is Professor of History and the Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
She is the author and editor of several books on the social and cultural history of the British Empire, including Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism, The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau, Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India and After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation. Her work on the ‘New Imperial History’ has been described as “a very readable and thought-provoking reflection on identity, nation, and modernity that deserves a wide audience” (The Historian).
At the Underhill Colloquium, Dr. Burton will be speaking about her new work on the Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842).