The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives (Dec. 7, 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
Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, 10:00- 11:30 AM EST
Decolonization Book Talk #1
The League Against Imperialism:
Lives and Afterlives (Leiden, 2020)
· With Authors: Michele Louro (Salem State University),
Carolien Stolte (Leiden University),
Heather Streets-Salter (Northeastern University),
Sana Tannoury-Karam (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)
· Discussant: Su Lin Lewis (University of Bristol)
Register for Book Talk #1 here
About the Speakers:
EDITORS
Carolien Stolte is an assistant professor of history at Leiden University 
in the Netherlands and editor-in-chief of the journal Itinerario. Her research focuses on the international history of South Asia. Her current project, entitled “Southern Crossings: Indian activists and the Afro-Asian moment in the early Cold War”, is funded by an NWO VENI grant (2018-2022). Stolte is also the co-editor of the book series Global Connections: Routes and Roots (Leiden University Press). In 2020, she was awarded an Early Career Award by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Link: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/carolien-stolte#tab-1
Michele L. Louro is an Associate Professor of History at Salem State 
University. She received her Ph.D. from Temple University and is broadly trained in the fields of modern South Asian history, British imperial history, international history, and world history. She is author to Comrades against Imperialism: Nehru, India and Interwar Internationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is the president of the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia (SAHSA). Link: https://directory.salemstate.edu/profile/michele.louro
Heather Streets-Salter is a Professor of History at Northeastern 
University. Her research focuses on world history, the structure of empires and colonial relationships, and the scholarship of pedagogy. She is the author of World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in an Era of Global Conflict (2017), Empires and Colonies in the Modern World (2010) with Trevor Getz, Martial Races: The Military, Martial Races, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (2004), and Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History (2006, 2009, 2012) with Jerry Bentley and Herb Ziegler. Link: https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/heather-streets-salter/
Sana Tannoury-Karam is a historian of the modern Middle East, 
writing on the intellectual history of the Left in the Levant. She received her PhD in History from Northeastern University and holds an MA in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut. Her latest article “This War is Our War: Anti-Fascism Among Lebanese Leftist Intellectuals during World War Two” in Journal of World History 30, no. 3 (September 2019). In the academic year 2020/21, Sana Tannoury-Karam is a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien, affiliated with the Center for Global History at Freie Universität Berlin. Link: https://www.eume-berlin.de/en/fellows/vita/sana-tannoury-karam.html
DISCUSSANT
Su Lin Lewis is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Global History, Department 
of History at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Before arriving at Bristol in September 2014, she was Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham from 2013-2014. She specializes in global and transnational history in the twentieth century, with a thematic focus on urban history, civil society, gender, cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decolonization, and migration, from the late colonial era to the Cold War. Her geographical focus is mainly Southeast Asia (especially Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand), along with an ever-increasing interest in port-cities of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Rim. Link: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/su-lin-lewis