In collaboration with the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies (CNCS) at Durham/Newcastle and Northumbria Universities.
This interdisciplinary seminar programme 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.
For further information about the series, please contact one of the organisers: David Feldman (d.feldman@bbk.ac.uk), Ella Dzelzainis (ella.dzelzainis@newcastle.ac.uk) or Tom Stammers (t.e.stammers@durham.ac.uk)
