GlobeColloquium
Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800–1950
A cooperation of ReCentGlobe with the Transimperial History Centre, the Department of East Asian Studies and the Historic Seminar.
This event is held in English.
With Mikko Toivanen (Berlin)
Mikko Toivanen has a background in global and colonial history, with a specific focus on nineteenth-century Southeast Asia as a trans-imperial space. He defended his PhD, on colonial travel and leisure in Java, Ceylon and the Straits Settlements, at the European University Institute in October 2019. Colonial travel in a global cultural context is also the topic of his monograph The Travels of Pieter Albert Bik: Writings from the Dutch Colonial World of the Early Nineteenth Century (Leiden University Press, 2017).
Most recently, Toivanen was a visiting scholar at Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute, Free University Berlin, where he worked on his postdoctoral project Staging a Colonial Capital: The Construction of Public Space in Singapore and Batavia through Spectacle and Ceremony, 1845-1870. The project examined the development of urban culture and ceremonial uses of public space in Southeast Asia through a range of case studies from the middle of the nineteenth century, while also seeking to address contemporary debates about imperial legacies in postcolonial cityscapes.
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