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Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II

Thursday 09 November 2017 4.00pm to 5.30pm

Hosted by Department of International Relations, LSE IDEAS and South Asia Centre

Tower 2, Room 9.04,

Speakers

Dr Tarak Barkawi

Professor Gurminder Bhambra

Professor Susan Carruthers

Professor Patrick Porter

Chair

Dr Anna Stavrianakis

Join us for the launch of Tarak Barkawi’s Soldiers of Empire, a new book from Cambridge University Press which re-imagines the study of soldiers and society. Drawing on history, sociology, and anthropology, the book critiques the “Western way of war” from a postcolonial perspective.

Tarak Barkawi is Reader in International Relations at LSE.

Gurminder Bhambra (@GKBhambra) is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex.

Susan Carruthers is Professor of History at Warwick University.

Patrick Porter (@PatPorter76) is Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Exeter.

Anna Stavrianakis (@StavrianakisA) is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex.

This event is free and open to all. To register a place, please e-mail s.wise3@lse.ac.uk. For any queries email s.wise3@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6821.

Suggested hashtag for this lecture: #LSESoldiers

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