{"id":12920,"date":"2020-11-29T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=12920"},"modified":"2021-01-15T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:25:16","slug":"12920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2020\/11\/29\/12920\/","title":{"rendered":"Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines, with Andrew Rotter (Dec. 15, 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0<\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>BU Center for the Study of Asia<\/strong>\u00a0are pleased to invite you to the next online event of the\u00a0<\/span>Decolonization@ 60 Series<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Decolonization Book Talk #3<\/em><\/p>\n

Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, 10:00- 11:30 AM\u00a0EST<\/b><\/span><\/o:p><\/h2>\n

Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters
\nin Imperial India and the Philippines\u00a0(Oxford, 2019)<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/h2>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>With Author Andrew Rotter<\/strong><\/span> (Colgate University)<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and <\/span>Discussants Chris Capozzola<\/strong><\/span> (MIT) on the Philippines;
Ben Siegel<\/strong><\/span> (Boston University) on India<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

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Register for Book Talk #3\u00a0here<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

About the Speakers:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew Rotter <\/strong>is Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Colgate University, \"\"<\/a>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<\/em>, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964<\/em>, and Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb<\/em>, along with articles, essays, and reviews in Diplomatic History, The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History<\/em>, and other journals. His most recent book is called Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters <\/em>in Imperial India and the Philippines <\/em>(Oxford, 2019).<\/p>\n

DISCUSSANT ON THE PHILIPPINES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christopher Capozzola <\/strong>is Professor of History and Section Head at MIT, \"\"<\/a>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\u2019s 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<\/em> (Oxford University Press<\/a>, 2008), examines the relationship between citizens, voluntary associations, and the federal government during World War I. In 2010, Uncle Sam Wants You<\/em> 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\u2019s First Pacific Century<\/em>, was published by Basic Books<\/a> in July 2020.<\/p>\n

DISCUSSANT ON INDIA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benjamin Siegel,<\/strong> Assistant Professor of History at Boston University, is a \"\"<\/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<\/em> (Cambridge University Press<\/a>, 2018), interrogated the ways in which questions of food and scarcity structured Indian citizens\u2019 understanding of welfare and citizenship since independence. Professor Siegel\u2019s current book project, Markets of Pain: A Transnational History of the United States Opioid Crisis,<\/em> is under contract with Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

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