Activities in 2005

The Cluster conducted a seminar series during 2005. Seminars were hosted by a diverse range of local and international scholars and themes included:

• Russian and Soviet imperialism
• Chinese nationalism
• Frontier myths
• Forced migration
• The international food crisis of the 1970s

The Cluster hosted the international visits of:

• Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, University of Oxford
• Dr Christian Gerlach, University of Pittsburgh.

Cluster members discussed their individual projects during a research day held in December. Projects included:

• Communications and national identity in early-modern France
• Natural history and colonialism
• The doctrine of assimilation of indigenous populations in colonial policy
• Imperialism and social mobility
• Lady Jane Franklin and the notion of British citizenship and virtue
• The Duke of Edinburgh's 1867-1871 voyages
• Critical and comparative genocide studies
• The world population question in the inter-war years
• The links between provincialism, nationalism and nationalism in modern France