About this Event
We are delighted to announce that this years Founding Historians Lecture, 'Dr Hunter's Plague: Photography, Gender and Disease in Nineteenth-Century India,' will be presented by Sussex Alumni, Professor David Arnold.
In these pandemic times we inevitably look back to the experience of earlier disease episodes. But to whose history do we return and by what means can we envisage what happened? The brief Indian career of Dr Marion Hunter, one of many British doctors and nurses sent to western India during the 1896-1900 plague pandemic, offers unique insights into disease control in an imperial setting, the uses of photography and the ambiguities of race, place, caste and gender.
Emeritus Professor David Arnold was named so by the History department at the University of Warwick and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He was an undergraduate student at Sussex University (1968), continuing his studies and graduating as a doctoral student in 1973. David went on to teach at the University of Dar es Salaam before joining the History Department at the University of Lancaster in 1979. He was Professor of South Asian History at SOAS from 1988 to 2006, when he joined the University of Warwick.
Since his early research on nationalist politics in south India in the 1920s and 1930s, David's work has ranged widely over the history of modern South Asia, and beyond, and has included social and environmental history and the history of science, technology and medicine. Along with David Hardiman, he was a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group of historians of South Asia, and his work has been translated into several languages (including Portugese, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean).
The evening will begin at 5:30pm and will conclude with a relaxed drinks reception.
The venue, Bramber House at Sussex University, is fully accessible. However, if you would like a member of the events team to get in contact with you regarding additional requirements, dietary or otherwise, please email [email protected].
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Sussex - Bramber House, University of Sussex, Falmer, United Kingdom
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