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Introduction: John McAleer (Southampton) and Joshua Ehrlich (Macau)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>10:00. Panel 1: Beginnings, Ends, and Legacies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rupali Mishra (Auburn): \u2018The \u201cIdea\u201d of Government and Authority in the Early East India Company\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Guido van Meersbergen (Warwick): \u2018Revisiting East India Company Diplomacy: The William Norris Embassy to Mughal India (1699\u20131702)\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Giorgio Riello (EUI) and Guillemette Crouzet (EUI): \u2018Rethinking \u201cFrench\u201d and \u201cBritish\u201d India: The \u201cDiary\u201d of Ananda Ranga Pillai\u2019<\/li>\n<li>John McAleer (Southampton): \u2018\u201cIn the spacious times of old\u201d: The Afterlife of the East India Company, 1899\u20131909\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>11:30. Panel 2: Labour, Knowledge, and Networks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Margaret Makepeace (British Library): \u2018The World of the East India Company London Warehouse Labourers, 1800\u20131858\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Hanser (Copenhagen): \u2018Slavery, Servitude, and the East India Company in China\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Anna Winterbottom (McGill): \u2018Politics of Medicine and Natural Knowledge in Madras, <em>c<\/em>. 1789\u20131809\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Ehrlich (Macau): \u2018Two Muttiahs and the Making of Company Power in South India\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>13:00. Lunch<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20378 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Huggins_East-Indiaman-Asia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Huggins_East-Indiaman-Asia.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Huggins_East-Indiaman-Asia-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Huggins_East-Indiaman-Asia-800x510.jpg 800w, https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Huggins_East-Indiaman-Asia-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Huggins_East-Indiaman-Asia-1116x711.jpg 1116w, https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Huggins_East-Indiaman-Asia-806x514.jpg 806w, https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Huggins_East-Indiaman-Asia-558x356.jpg 558w, https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Huggins_East-Indiaman-Asia-655x418.jpg 655w, https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Huggins_East-Indiaman-Asia-600x383.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>14:00. Panel 3: Art and Visual Culture<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rishad Choudhury (Oberlin): \u2018A Portrait of the Mercenary as a Nobleman: Persianate Prosopography and Colonial Portraiture in Company School Art\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Howes (Independent): \u2018\u201cA Needless Profusion\u201d: The East India Company\u2019s unwitting Patronage of the Arts under Richard Wellesley (1800\u20131805)\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Tom Young (Courtauld): \u2018Amateur Art and the East India Company\u2019s Civil Service, <em>c<\/em>. 1800\u201358\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Brooke Krancer (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven) and Anita Dey (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven), \u2018Chromatic Confluence: The East India Company and the Materiality of British Art\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>15.30. Tea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>16:00. Panel 4: Protest and Scandal<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cheryl Fury (University of New Brunswick): \u2018\u201cI willed no more peas to be given the company\u201d: Provisioning, Protest and \u201cApPEASement\u201d in Early East India Company Voyages\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Callie Wilkinson (LMU Munich): \u2018Bearing Witness in Wartime: Unauthorized Disclosures in the East India Company\u2019s Armies, 1780\u20131850\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Hoover Wilson (Stony Brook): \u2018\u201cTo operate upon the root of the evil\u201d: Charles Trevelyan and the Arc of Company Corruption\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Andrea Major (Leeds): \u2018Critics of the Company: Challenging East India Company Colonialism in Manchester, Calcutta, and Delhi, 1838\u20131843\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>17:30. 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