Join the World History Center on Friday, September 13 for "Authorial Metadata and the Global History Archive: traps, trips and tricks" a talk by Martin Dusinberre (University of Zurich) in 3703 Posvar Hall from 2:30-4:00 PM. RSVPs appreciated but not required. Register Here
In his new book, Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories (Cambridge, 2023), Martin Dusinberre addresses key questions of method and authorial positionality in the writing of global history. He does so by reconstructing the lives of some of the thousands of male and female migrants who left Japan for work in Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia in the late-nineteenth century. Drawing on an unconventional and deeply material archive, from gravestones to government files, paintings to song, and from digitized records to the very earth itself, Dusinberre asks, where are the global archive’s sites—and who are “we” as we cite it?
This event is part of the series Silence in the Narrative: The Politics of Absence in Accounts of the Global Past.