BRITTA SCHILLING (Utrecht) will speak on Germany’s Colonial Material at the German Historical Institute, Seminar Room on Thursday, 9 March 2017, at 5.30 p.m.
This talk will consider the relationship between German colonialism and material culture. It will argue for the importance of the material in attempts to establish and maintain German political power and cultural identity in its overseas empire between 1884 and 1919 and beyond. It will also consider the utility of material culture analysis for understanding more recent developments in ‘postcolonial’ Germany.
Britta Schilling is Assistant Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University. She is the author of Postcolonial Germany: Memories of Empire in a Decolonized Nation (2014) and ‘German Postcolonialism in Four Dimensions: A Historical Perspective’, Postcolonial Studies, 18 / 4 (2015). She is currently working on a comparative history of European homes in sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Please check for any last minute changes on 020 7309 2050 (tel.) or visit: www.ghil.ac.uk This lecture will be held at 5.30 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, LONDON WC1A 2NJ. Tea is served from 5.00 p.m. in the Common Room, and wine is available afterwards. Guided tours of the Library are available one hour before the lecture.