Maynooth University announces a History Research Seminar on Thursday, October 17, 2024, from 17:00 to 19:15, in AHI Seminar Room 1.33, First Floor, IONTAS. All are welcome.
Session one: 5.00pm-6.00pm
Dr Ashok Malhotra (School of History, Anthropology, Politics & Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast)
Establishing Imperial Nutritional and Agricultural Scientific Research Institutes in British India, 1918-29
Ashok Malhotra is a historian of British India and of twentieth-century global organic farming movement. He holds a PhD from Edinburgh University and had been a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. His publications include Making British Indian fictions, 1772-1823 (2012). His current research project explores how colonial and agricultural research, undertaken in British India in the twentieth century, shaped the organic and environmental movements that emerged during the 1940s and 60s in Britain and the United States.
Session two: 6.00pm-7.15pm
Donal Coffey (Department of Law, Maynooth University)
An Imperial legal service in inter-War London
Dr Donal Coffey specialises in contemporary constitutional law and comparative constitutional history and is specifically interested in the constitutional history of the British Empire. He holds a PhD from University College Dublin, his publications include Drafting Irish Constitution, 1935-1937 (2018) and Constitutionalism in Ireland, 1932-1938 (2018), and he is an Affiliate Researcher of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main.
