Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines, with Andrew Rotter (Dec. 15, 2020)

The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and BU Center for the Study of Asia are pleased to invite you to the next online event of the Decolonization@ 60 Series

Decolonization Book Talk #3

Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, 10:00- 11:30 AM EST

Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters
in Imperial India and the Philippines (Oxford, 2019)

·     With Author Andrew Rotter (Colgate University)

·     and Discussants Chris Capozzola (MIT) on the Philippines;
Ben Siegel (Boston University) on India

Register for Book Talk #3 here

About the Speakers:

Andrew Rotter is Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Colgate University, where he has taught since 1988. He has a BA from Cornell University, where he worked with Walter LaFeber, and a Ph.D from Stanford, where he was trained by Barton Bernstein, David Kennedy, and Alexander George. He has published The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964, and Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb, along with articles, essays, and reviews in Diplomatic History, The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, and other journals. His most recent book is called Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines (Oxford, 2019).

DISCUSSANT ON THE PHILIPPINES

Christopher Capozzola is Professor of History and Section Head at MIT, where he teaches courses in political and legal history, war and the military, and the history of international migration. From 2015-2017 he served as the Secretary of the Faculty, and in 2018 was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT’s highest honor for undergraduate teaching. His research interests are in the history of citizenship, war, and the military in modern American history. His first book, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (Oxford University Press, 2008), examines the relationship between citizens, voluntary associations, and the federal government during World War I. In 2010, Uncle Sam Wants You won the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize of the New England American Studies Association. His most recent book, Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century, was published by Basic Books in July 2020.

DISCUSSANT ON INDIA

Benjamin Siegel, Assistant Professor of History at Boston University, is a historian whose transnational archival work places South Asia at the center of global economic, environmental, and political transformations. His first book, Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Cambridge University Press, 2018), interrogated the ways in which questions of food and scarcity structured Indian citizens’ understanding of welfare and citizenship since independence. Professor Siegel’s current book project, Markets of Pain: A Transnational History of the United States Opioid Crisis, is under contract with Oxford University Press.