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Tania Branigan, Foreign Leader Writer at听The Guardian, will deliver the 2024 Cundill Lecture on her award winning book,听Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. Branigan was awarded the 2023 Cundill History Prize for her 鈥渉aunting鈥� excavation of the Cultural Revolution. Uncovering forty years of silence, following countless hours of interviews, Branigan鈥檚听Red Memory听gives voices to those who lived through Mao鈥檚 decade of madness.

This paper explores why radical mobilizational tactics failed to achieve social and political changes during the 1989 Tiananmen Student Movement. By focusing on historical archives from students, elites, and state institutions, I argued that student radicalization inadvertently strengthens the hard-liner elites, facilitating the eventual repression. However, radical repertoire and actions are political and cultural meaning-making processes that situate between economic modernization and authoritarian consolidation of Chinese society.

The Research Group on Global Pasts听is having their first听Works-in-Progress Workshop听on November 18th at 3:30PM at Peterson Hall 116. The three recipients of the stipend will present their research that intersects with the core mission of the research group. Coffee and snacks will be provided.听

Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop

Briar Bennett-Flammer (History and Classical Studies)

Jennifer Purcell (Professor of History, St. Michael鈥檚 College, Vermont)

鈥淭ales We Tell Ourselves: The Endurance of British Monarchy into the 21^st Century"

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The Montreal British History Seminar, 2024-25

Abstract: Despite their significance, popular experience of the Highland Clearances, a series of mass evictions and forced migrations in Gaelic-speaking Scotland from c1750-c1886, remain understudied in both history and archaeology. Using a combination of landscape archaeology and oral testimony this study proposes a new way of understanding the relationship between evicted Gaelic people and the places they lived and worked.