Invited presentations
3rd “Historias de guerra y paz” Seminar. Simancas University Institute of History, Universidad de Valladolid, 28–29 November 2022. “Los principados de la India y el imperio británico en el largo siglo XIX: Entre la colaboración y la resistencia”
Miradas Contemporáneas Seminar. National Distance Education University (UNED), Madrid, 8 November 2022. “Investigar la historia de la India colonial y sus principados: Vías, retos y recompensas”
Modern Monarchy Seminar Series. University of Sydney, 10 June 2022. “Education and intimacy in the Indian court: Princely pupils and British tutors in late nineteenth-century western India”
Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship Seminar. American University of Beirut, 12 April 2022. “Approaches to the study of gender in South Asian history”
“Genre et jeux d’échelles: Du local au transnational” Workshop. Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 17–18 June 2019. “Consommation et domination sexuelle et raciale: Des boîtes à cigare entre La Havane et Londres (années 1860)” (with Jeanne Moisand)
“The body in colonial India” Workshop. Goldsmiths, University of London, 7 July 2018. “Embodying Indian childhood: Children’s bodies and photography in the colonial period”
Global Cultural Encounters Workshop. University of Michigan, 2–4 August 2017. “Princely alliances on a global stage”
History of Education Colloquium. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 29 June 2017. “The making of a ruler for the Indian princely state of Baroda: The education of Sayaji Rao III”
“Relating gender: The invocation of culture” International Workshop. M. S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, 3–4 October 2016. “Indian pupils and British tutors in the royal court: The making of Indian and British masculinity in the princely classroom”
South and Southeast Asian Studies Seminar. Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, 1 June 2016. “Princely education in India in the age of colonialism”
Seminar of the Research Group on Empires, Metropoles and Extra-European Societies (GRIMSE). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 10 February 2016. “The Indian princely states, the British empire and the world”
SIAS Summer Institute “Cultural encounters: Global perspectives and local exchanges, 1750–1940”. National Humanities Center, North Carolina, 11 August 2014. “A failed encounter: Rajaram I of Kolhapur in Florence”
Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 5 May 2014. “The Indian princely states from the Great War to Independence”
Breaking Boundaries Conference. Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 24 March 2014. “Re-thinking indirect rule in India”
SIAS Summer Institute “Cultural encounters: Global perspectives and local exchanges, 1750–1940”. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 29 July 2013. “Baroda, the British empire and the world, c. 1875–1939”
Political Legacies Conference. Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, 11 June 2013. “The legacy of British rule in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries” (roundtable)
Seminar of the Institute of History. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, 19 May 2011. “El Imperio británico y la India: Literatura histórica reciente”
Conference and seminar papers
“Crises and gender inequalities from the present to the past” Workshop. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 5–7 October 2022. “Teenage bride, political exile, power broker: The three lives of Tanhibai Mane in mid-nineteenth century India”
5th International Seminar of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII). Universidad de Cádiz, 19–20 September 2022. “Gender and colonialism from Barcelona to Bombay: Catalan travellers, Indian men and intimate encounters in colonial India”
“Herències / Legacies” International Conference. Universitat de Barcelona, 20–22 June 2022. “Remaking Spanish masculinity in colonial India: Catalan travellers and male sociability in the British Raj, c. 1900”
“Bodies beyond binaries in colonial and postcolonial Asia, c. 1850s–1960s” Workshop. ETH Zürich, 15–18 June 2022. “Masculinities on the move from Barcelona to Bombay: The men of the Catalan bourgeoisie and their bodies in colonial India”
7th International Conference of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII). Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, 22–23 November 2021. “A route to Indian independence: Charting anticolonial politics from the princely states to the United States”
12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS). Kyoto Seika University, 24–28 August 2021. “Indian anticolonialism, the princely states and the United States”
26th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS). University of Vienna, 26–29 July 2021. “From Baroda to ‘free America’: Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda’s engagement with anticolonialism through the United States”
4th International Seminar of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII). Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, 9–10 November 2020. “The affective lessons of princely education: Princely pupils, British tutors, and emotion in colonial India”
31st Humboldt India Project Workshop. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 31 January 2020. “Beyond scientists, soldiers, and peasants: Exploring a parallel register of masculinity in 1960s India through Air India’s ‘Maharaja’ mascot”
6th Conference of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII). Universidad de Valladolid, 27–29 November 2019. “From aristocratic to democratic bodies: Pleasure, power, and politics in Nehruvian India”
4th Workshop of the Centre for Gender Studies (CEdGE). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 21 October 2019. “Gender, race, and power in the international tours of Indian rulers, c. 1900–1947”
48th Annual Conference on South Asia. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 17–20 October 2019. “The traveling princely body in India and the world, c. 1900–1970”
50th Conference of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 10–13 July 2019. “The trans-imperial circulation of colonial gender politics: Locating Cuba’s cigar lithographs between Havana and London” (with Jeanne Moisand)
14th Conference of the Asociación de Historia Contemporánea (AHC). Universitat d’Alacant, 20–22 September 2018. “Los principados de la India y las fronteras de lo global”
25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS). École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 24–27 July 2018. “The archive of studio photography of children in colonial India”
Workshop “Gender and empire: A trans-imperial approach to gender politics and the colonial state, 1848–1945”. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 18–20 June 2018. “Gender, intimacy, and colonialism in the Indian court, c. 1870–1900”
“Always in minority: Solitary voices in hostile parliaments” Workshop. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 14–15 June 2018. “Dadabhai Naoroji, member of parliament in Britain, 1892–95”
Seminar of the Research Group on Empires, Metropoles and Extra-European Societies (GRIMSE). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 25 April 2018. “Always in minority: Dadabhai Naoroji”
International History Research Seminar. London School of Economics, 7 February 2018. “The Indian princely states and America at the end of empire, 1900–1939”
South Asia Workshop. Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, 6 February 2018. “‘My visit to free America’: Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda, anticolonial travel and the United States, c. 1900–1939”
5th Conference of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 29–30 November 2017. “Righting colonial wrongs in Westminster: The case of Dadabhai Naoroji”
5th European Congress on World and Global History (ENIUGH). Central European University, Budapest, 31 Aug.–3 Sept. 2017. “Educating the royal child: The transformation of the education of young Indian rulers in the nineteenth century”
“The body in colonial India” Workshop. University of Kassel, Germany, 8–9 June 2017. “Bodily education in the Indian court: The schooling of male, young royal bodies in colonial western India”
ICAS:MP Lecture Series. M. S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, 26 August 2016. “Performing gender in princely educational spaces”
Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop. Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 25 April 2016. “Elite education and colonial improvement in India”
11th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC). Universitat de València, 2 April 2016. “Princely education in India: The case of Baroda”
1st Centre for Historical Studies–Centre of South Asian Studies Conference. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 17–19 September 2015. “Picturing Indian kingship”
Visual Constructions of South Asia Seminar. Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, 26 May 2015. “The photographic remaking of Indian kingship”
Violence and Conflict Workshop. Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 11 March 2015. “Anti-colonial violence from the Indian princely states to Europe”
Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers’ Seminar. Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 9 October 2014. “Indian rulers in Britain in the late colonial period”
23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS). Universität Zürich, 23–26 July 2014. “Radical anti-colonialism and Indian rulers in the princely states and beyond”
“Tracking notions of progress in South Asia” Workshop. Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 16 June 2014. “Education in the making of ‘progressive’ rulers for India”
Reputations in History Conference. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 9 May 2014. “A royal reputation at stake: Sayaji Rao III of Baroda, from model maharaja to seditious prince”
24th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN). London School of Economics, 3 April 2014. “The Baroda blueprint: An Indian princely state in the building of independent India”
World History Workshop. Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 6 March 2014. “Itineraries of empire: Indian rulers in Europe, c. 1870–1930”
Seminar Night. Downing College, University of Cambridge, 6 November 2013. “The Indian princely states, the British empire and the world”
History Lab Annual Conference. Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 13 June 2013. “The education of Indian rulers in the 1870s”
Graduate Research Day. Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, 6 June 2013. “A re-evaluation of the Indian princely states in the early twentieth-century empire”
Global Knowledge Workshop. Ertegun House, University of Oxford, 10 May 2013. “The Indian princely states in global networks of collaboration and resistance, c. 1900–30”
14th International “Culture & Power” Conference. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, 24 April 2010. “Recasting Hinduism in interwar princely India”
1st Conference of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies (AEEII). Universidad de Córdoba, Spain, 2 July 2009. “A place of peace and romance? Controversies surrounding Simla, an enclave for the European elite in India, 1864–1888”
Teresa Segura-Garcia 