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Friday, October 24, 2014 - 09:00am - 06:00pm

This symposium explores how the British Empire produced, reinforced and provoked criticism of itself through material objects from grand public buildings to humble cups of tea. Architecture manifested the social values of public practices, including worship, shopping, and visiting exhibitions. Commodities --their production, circulation, consumption, and narration --represented the reach and limits of empire. The resistance to the imperial erasure of identity may also be uncovered in close readings of objects.   Please join us for this interdisciplinary conference, which is free and open to the public. 

9:30am    

Breakfast    

10:00am  

Opening Remarks

Louis Nelson, University of Virginia - Architectures of Empire in Jamaica

Ross Forman, University of Warwick - Cathay on Display:  The Chinese Court at the "South Kensington Caravanserai," 1884

12:00pm  

LUNCH (SCC 4th Floor Seminar Room)

1:00pm    

Alex Bremner, University of Edinburgh - Great and Greater Britain:  Architecture and the Politics of New Imperialism, 1887-1915

Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara - "Every Kitchen an Empire Kitchen":  Tea and the Politics of Imperial Consumerism in Interwar Britain and India

3:00pm    

Closing Remarks

3:30pm    

Reception

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