[IMCnetwork] REMINDER PRACTICE TPR "Empire and Communications Governance" Thursday at 1 p.

[April Biccum]

Dear IMCers,

You are cordially invited to form part of a collegial and supportive audience for HDR candidate Samuel Parsons in a practice TPR to be held:

1 pm, Thursday 24th October RSSS Building room 3.70.

You can also attend via zoom.

To join online: https://anu.zoom.us/j/3364169330?pwd=ZStOdm4vTWpwS1RMbmFYUisxWVB2UT09


The IMC is a supportive community of practice raising the profile of Interpretive Methods at the ANU and beyond. So we are happy to provide a space for our HDR students to practice presenting their research to a methodologically friendly audience, to help them gain the experience they need.  So come along and hear Samuel’s very interesting research!!

Details are below
April

Empire and Communications Governance TPR practice
Samuel Parsons, HDR Candidate, School of Political Science and International Relations, CASS
In his work on empires and communication, Harold Innis posited that communications technologies occupy a crucial position in organisation and administrations of empires. The Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries were a period of substantial transformation in both communications’ technology, governance and international organisation. This period of unprecedented internationalism coincided with the height and decline of European Imperialism, the powers who were the principal architects and guarantors of these fledgling IGOs. The continuities between empire and international organisation have been well documented for  the League of Nations by authors such as Mark Mazower and Susan Pederson. This Thesis proposes to undertake a similar analysis to the progression of International Communications Governance from the Telegraph to the Internet, assessing continuities in the  ideologies, individuals, and structures that built global communications governance. Given the close relationship between empires and communications, international communications governance should serve as a fruitful site to investigate these dynamics, and the question of historical continuity and change.





Dr. April R. Biccum
Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial International Relations
School of Politics and International Relations
The Australian National University
April.biccum at anu.edu.au<mailto:April.biccum at anu.edu.au>
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I’m writing to you from the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri People whose sovereignty was never ceded
I pay my respects to their elders past,  present and emerging

Most Recent Publications:

2023 “Telling the truth about Empire? A word on methodology”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajph.12928

2023 “Interpretive methods in the Digital Age”
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/52557/chapter/425773673


Websites:

http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/research/projects/interpretation-method-critique

https://anu-au.academia.edu/AprilBiccum

 http://gloknos.ac.uk/people-partners/associated-members/april-biccum


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