Interconnected Histories of Partitions with Tom de Wolf, University of Cambridge

14/08/2025 34 min
Interconnected Histories of Partitions with Tom de Wolf, University of Cambridge

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Join Tom and Jay to travel across time and space connecting disparate ideas about partitions. Guest: Tom de Wolf, MPhil in American History, University of Cambridge and alumnus of University of GlasgowHost, Professor Jay Sarkar: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/jayitasarkar/Date of Recording: January 26, 2024—Sequence of six mini interviews: Dr Ali Raza (LUMS, Pakistan); Professor Glenda Sluga (EUI Florence, Italy); Professor Laura Robson (Yale University, USA); Professor Willem van Schendel (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Professor Cemil Aydin (UNC Chapel Hill, USA); Dr Connor Mulvagh (University College Dublin, Ireland).2023 British Academy Conference, Partition Machine, University of Glasgow: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british-academy-conferences/partition-machine/Date of interviews at conference: August 10-11, 2023__REFERENCES:Ned Blackhawk (2023): https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300276671/the-rediscovery-of-america/Carl Griffin (2023): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transactions-of-the-royal-historical-society/article/enclosure-as-internal-colonisation-the-subaltern-commoner-terra-nullius-and-the-settling-of-englands-wastes/E7082C68E07BB68720B3BB024B9D5AB3Laura Robson & Arie Dubnov (2019): https://www.sup.org/books/history/partitionsFilm, Killers of the Flower Moon (2023): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537002/