Documenting Culture - Documenting Difference
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This is a past event
This talk is presented as part of the current exhibition at the Sir Duncan Rice Library.
Wanderlust: Travel Journals and Explorers' Notes features vivid writing contained in some of the travel journals and explorers' notebooks held within the University's Special Collections.
Dr Karen Salt explores the politics of space and the cataloguing of people in the journal of Jonathan Troup, in an absorbing talk encompassing ethnography, race, colonialism and the empire.
Free entry, booking advised.
- Speaker
Dr Karen Salt, Department of History, 51cg
- Hosted by
Special Collections Centre
- Venue
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Special Collections Centre Seminar Room, The Sir Duncan Rice Library
- Contact
- scc.events@abdn.ac.uk