Anita Auer
![]() history with linguistic developments, in particular language and migration in different contexts. This has led to funding support from different organisations (NWO Aspasia, Utrecht University board appreciation grant, EPFL-University of Lausanne CROSS grant) and has allowed her to lead a couple of research teams. In line with her research, Anita Auer is organising an international and interdisciplinary conference on ‘Approaches to migration, language, and identity’ in May 2017. |
Benjamin Authers
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Barnita Bagchi
of the Executive Board, responsible for internationalization, at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education, and is a member of the Executive Board for the Stichting Praemium Erasmianum, Amsterdam, as well as a member of the Advisory Council for the Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University.Her publications include:
—“Crooked Lines: Utopia, Human Rights, and South Asian Women’s Writing and Agency.” Australian Journal of Human Rights 22.2 (November 2016). 103-122. —“Many Modernities and Utopia: From Thomas More to South Asian Utopian Writings”. Utopía: 500 años. Ed. Guerra, Pablo. Bogotá: Ediciones Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, 2016. 195-220. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.16925/9789587600544 —Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational Exchanges and Cross-Cultural Transfers in (Post)colonial Education. Ed. Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs, Kate Rousmaniere. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014. ISBN 9781782382669 —The Politics of the (Im)possible: Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered. Ed. Barnita Bagchi. New Delhi, London, Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2012. ISBN 9788132107347 —“Connected and Entangled Histories: Writing Histories of Education in the Indian Context.” Paedagogica Historica. 50.6 (2014): 813-821. Print and Web. —“Ladylands and Sacrificial Holes: Utopias and Dystopias in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Writings.” The Politics of the (Im)possible: Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered. Ed. Barnita Bagchi. New Delhi, London, Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2012. 166-178. Print and Web. — “Towards Ladyland: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and the Movement for Women’s Education in Colonial Bengal.” Special Issue of Paedagogica Historica. “Empire Overseas, Empire at Home” 45.3 (December 2009) 743-755. Print and Web. —Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag: Two Feminist Utopias, by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, part-translated and introduced by Barnita Bagchi. New Delhi: Penguin Classics, 2005. |
Gregory Claeys
![]() (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought (Unwin Hyman, 1989); The French Revolution Debate in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Searching for Utopia: the History of an Idea (Thames & Hudson, 2011; German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese editions), Mill and Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and Dystopia: A Natural History (Oxford University Press, 2016). He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and (with Gareth Stedman Jones) The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and some fifty volumes of primary sources and edited essays. In 2015 Claeys was elected to the Academia Europaea/The Academy of Europe, History Section (one of 237 members). In 2016 he was elected Chair of the Utopian Studies Society (Europe). He has held a Senior Research Fellowship in the History of Ideas Unit, Australian National University, Canberra (1993), and been visiting professor at Keio University, Tokyo (1995), the University of Hanoi (2008), and the School of Government, University of Peking (2009, 2011). |
Nilanjana Deb
![]() the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Fellowships to the University of Toronto in 2004 and 2009 and the Australia-India Council Fellowship in 2004. She was awarded the British Academy South Asia Visiting Fellowship to King’s College London in 2009. She was a core member of the ‘Envisioning the Indian City’ research collaboration with the University of Liverpool. She was a steering group member of the Leverhulme international research network on ‘Commodities and Culture’ with King’s College London and other institutions. She is currently a key member of Project E-QUAL, a collaboration between universities in India and the European Union, to develop online teaching resources in emerging areas for undergraduate students in India. |
Hans Harder
![]() South Asia, religious developments in Bengali Islam and modern Hinduism, South Asian sociolinguistics, and South Asian fantastic literature and magical realism in a transcultural perspective. He is author of Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh: The Maijbhandaris of Chittagong (London: Routledge, 2011), Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay’s Śrīmadbhagabadgītā: Translation and Analysis. South Asian Studies XXXVII (Delhi: Manohar, 2001). He edited (with Barabara Mittler) Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair (Heidelberg: Springer, 2013) and Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages (New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2010). |
Carlos López Galviz
![]() Research Council in the UK. Carlos has published widely on the history of cities like London and Paris, and the history of technology and infrastructure, including Going Underground: New Perspectives (2013) and Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within (2016). |
Enit Steiner
![]() My fields of interest include the novel in its various sub-genres and their relationship with the philosophical thought of the Enlightenment. Persisting interest in Jane Austen’s work has led me to a deeper engagement with the women writers of the long 18th century. In my research, I have often found myself pondering the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment as well as Rousseau’s influence on British writers. Apart from their contemporaneous impact, I take particular interest in the modifications that these branches of Enlightenment philosophy underwent in the works of what we retrospectively call the Romantic era and how they continue to be discussed, reconfigured and applied in contemporary theories of human society. |