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This project ranges across early modern and nineteenth century materials. It explores how “national types” were created in the nineteenth century whose costumes were made from foreign textiles introduced via early modern global trade.
Meha Priyadarshini is Lecturer of Early Modern History at University of Edinburgh. She studies connections between colonial Latin America and Asia and most recently co-edited the volume Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565 – 1898). After researching the trade of Chinese ceramics to colonial Mexico for her first project, Meha is now studying the use and exchange of textiles between Mexico, the Philippines and Spain. She is also leading an AHRC-NEH New Directions for Digital Scholarship Grant for another project on textiles: connectingthreads.co.uk
- Speaker
- Dr Meha Priyadarshini
- Hosted by
- CEMS
- Venue
- Taylor A36