Before Islamic Finance: Muslim Banking in South Asia and the World, 1880-1975 title
In this webinar event, Dr Mike O'Sullivan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) examines the varieties of, and challenges to, Muslim private banking in colonial and postcolonial South Asia.
What is History in a Settler Colonial Society? Mapping the limits and possibilities of ethical historiography title
In his 1995 study of history, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot insisted on the need to recognise the discipline’s power to curate and control. Critical, structural analysis of history-making would expose not only the past under examination, he contended, but the form and function of the discipline over time: what ‘history is changing with time and place’, such that ‘history reveals itself only through the production of such narratives’.