The History Department's Migration Hub presents 'Citizenship, Colonialism and Minority Pasts'

 

Tuesday 12th December, In-person 4.15-5.30, The Diamond Computer Room 3

 

Speakers:

 

Chair: Martial Staub

 

Dr Razak Khan, a research fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany, published in 2022 with OUP a monograph entitled Minority Pasts. Locality, Emotions, and Belonging on the princely state of Rampur (and its antecedents and afterlives). His talk will focus on material on migration from the final chapter.

Kathleen Commons, a PhD candidate in the History Department at Sheffield, will present her research on migrants in early modern England. Migrants in early modern England were governed by a complex legal regime that controlled every aspect of their lives. These laws and legal principles established a dichotomy between those who 'belong' as rights-holding English subjects, and migrants, outside the ambit of belonging, whose 'rights' were in fact precarious grants of monarchical favour. Kathleen will give a brief overview of laws relating to migration and settlement, and consider the implications of recovering a 'legal history' of migration.

Frederick Potts, who is also PhD candidate in the History Department at Sheffield, is working on questions of colonialism, migration and settlement during the early centuries of German overlordship in Prussia and Livonia (c.1200-1400). Freddy has a particular focus on comparatively analysing multiple strands of non-German migration to the region. In this presentation, he will focus on the example presented by the migration of Lithuanian political refugees into Prussia.

All welcome - no registration, just turn up!