Documenting Culture - Documenting Difference
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This is a past event
This talk is presented as part of the current exhibition at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, Wanderlust: Travel Journals and Explorers' Notes.The exhibition features vivid writing contained in some of the travel journals and explorers' notebooks held with the University's Special Collections
Dr Karen Salt explores the politics of space and the cataloguing of people in the Journal of Jonathan Troup, in an absorbing talk encompassing ethnography, race, colonialism and the empire.
- Speaker
- Dr Karen N. Salt, Department of History, University of Aberdeen
- Hosted by
- Special Collections Centre
- Venue
- Special Collections Centre Seminar Room, The Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen, Bedford Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3AA
- Contact
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Free entry, booking advised.
scc.events@abdn.ac.uk or 01224 273049