We hope you will join us for this interdisciplinary seminar programme which explores how multiple discourses on race and religion intersected in the global nineteenth century, and generated, reinforced and/or challenged notions of human difference. How did nineteenth-century anti-Catholicism conjugate with opposition to antisemitism? In what ways were campaigns against the enslavement of Black people and Islamophobia mutually constitutive? These are the kinds of questions we seek to investigate, across different disciplines, geographies and media. Our discussion also aims to complicate our scholarly understanding of a number of working categories – nation and empire, barbarism and civilisation, domination and resistance – and is given added urgency by the pressures of the contemporary moment.
We hope that you will follow the exciting series of talks running throughout the year.
15 October 2021
Unfinished Business: Antisemitism, Racial Capitalism, and the Long Age of Empire
Dorian Bell, University of California, Santa Cruz