Dr David Arnold University of Warwick, UK |
Wednesday | 15 September 2021 | 3.00- 4.20 PM IST |
David Arnold has sought ways, through his work on modern India, to address the idea of “living histories”. As the Covid-19 pandemic has shown, the past remains a vital resource for the present, whether we seek “lessons” or a means to compare current experience with still more horrendous past events. The exceptional in the present can act as a trigger for the past, impelling us to re-examine and re-prioritize historical events and issues. A “living” history can evoke everyday, especially subaltern, human experience and the “lives” of non-human actors and reflect on the means to retrieve and re-evaluate such histories. And, finally, “living” histories can involve revisiting histories of the dead and their ongoing memorialization.
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David Arnold is professor emeritus in the History department at the University of Warwick, UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written extensively on science, medicine and environment in British and postcolonial India. His works include Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (1993), Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity (2013), Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India
(2016), and Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition (2021). |
We invite all aspiring history enthusiasts to join us in this engaging and informative webinar. |
Passcode: 123456 Webinar ID: 989 5245 0106 Please note: No Registration required |
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