À propos de la conférence
For much of human history, the highest elevations of nature were pristine, distant, and objects of veneration. Sentient beings avoided the biological and economic privations of extreme heights. Marginal communities garnered subsistence at altitude. The course of world history shifted when scientific innovation, industrial capitalism, and imperial consumption transformed the Himalaya into modern mountains of empire. This talk explores the historical shifts of more than human ecologies of those mountains through a visual lens on the mobility and circulation of Indigenous people, plants, and animals as they encountered the institutions and infrastructure of the British empire.
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À propos de la conférencière : Jo Sharma (University of Toronto)
Jo Sharma is an Associate Professor of History and Food Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Graduate Department of History and the Asian Institute, and will soon join the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences. She is a founding member of the Culinaria Research Centre. She is the author of Empire’s Garden (Duke/Permanent Black, 2011-2012) and Mountains of Empire (California, 2025). Her articles on Himalayan history have appeared in numerous journals including Himalaya, and edited book monographs. She edits the Empires in Perspectives book series for Routledge, and co-edits the Culinaria food book series for the University of Toronto Press.
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