January 20, 2023
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12:00 pm
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1:00 pm
Ann Walker Bell Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Meha Priyadarshini, Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History
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In this virtual lecture, Dr. Meha Priyadarshini will explore the history of exchange between colonial Latin America and China through the trade of Chinese porcelains to colonial Mexico. While the global history of Chinese ceramics has overwhelmingly focused on the European consumption of these objects, this presentation aims to reorient our worldview to focus on transpacific connections and consider the ways in which Chinese porcelains were adopted and adapted by colonial Mexican society.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Meha Priyadarshini is Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of Edinburgh and currently the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History. Her research covers the areas of global history, material culture studies, colonial Latin American history, and the emerging new field of global Asian studies. She is particularly interested in how we think about the connections between people, places, and things in the early modern period. Dr. Priyadarshini’s first book
Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico: The Material Worlds of an Early Modern Trade takes a local approach to a popular export product to explore the broader history of transpacific trade during the early modern period. More recently, she co-edited the book
Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires.
