Department of History

Asian Legal History Seminar Series

Book Launch: A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Speaker: Dr. Joseph McQuade
(University of Toronto)
Respondent: Dr. Amrita Shodhan
(Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Joseph McQuade is the Richard Charles Lee Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and a former SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies. This talk will be based on his book, A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). His broader research and teaching interests include critical genealogies of terrorism, international relations in Asia, and the global history of political violence.

Amrita Shodhan is a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS South Asia Institute. The author of A Question of Community: Religious Groups and Colonial Law (Calcutta: Samya, 2001), she is currently teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

ALL ARE WELCOME
(Registration Required)

Conveners
Dr. Michael Ng
Dr. Alastair McClure

The event is scheduled for Monday 16 November 2020, 7:00 – 8:30pm.
Please Register: Asian Legal History Seminar Registration