Cancelled and will be reschedul ed for March/April 2021.
Date/Time: Thursday\, A
pril 2\, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Doors 5:00pm\, Talk at 5:30pm\, recepti
on to follow
Venue: Peter Allard Hall (Room:
Franklin Lew Forum)\, 1822 East Mall\, Vancouver\, BC Canada
RSVP HERE:
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The UBC Department of History is pleased to invite you t o this year’s 10th Annual Burge Lecture “Migration and the Environment: A V iew from the Indian Ocean World” with guest lecturer Dr. Sunil Amrith\, Pro fessor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University.
Organized by t he UBC History Graduate Student Association\, the Burge Lecture is an a nnual endowed lecture made possible by a generous donation from UBC alumnus William Burge. The Burge Lecture series provides students\, faculty\, alum ni and community members the opportunity to connect with historians and sch olars engaged in exciting research.
This year’s Burge Lecture is co-s ponsored by the Centre for India and South Asia Research\, The School of Pu blic Policy and Global Affairs\, The Institute of Asian Research and the In terdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster.
Lecture d escription:
Migration and environmental change are two of th e most pressing issues confronting the world—both processes are often follo wed by the word “crisis\,” and increasingly they are connected in public di scourse\, through terms like “environmental refugee.” Yet the fields of mig ration history and environmental history have proceeded along parallel line s\, with few points of intersection. This lecture begins by asking why that has been the case—and then aims to imagine what it would involve to connec t environmental history and the history of migration in new ways\, focusing on the history of the Indian Ocean--a part of the world where both histori cal processes have always been deeply connected.
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