Trais Pearson, PhD
TOP TEN FAVORITE LECTURE TITLES*
* In no particular order. All original. All very real. Title may or may not match quality of lecture content.
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"Charnel Knowledge and Imperial Power: Medico-Legal Science in Siam, c. 1855-1900" (title of my one and only invited academic "book talk"--a play on Ann Stoler's work on gender and sexuality in the Dutch East Indies)
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"The World in a Pustule" (lecture on the global history of Smallpox Vaccination for my lecture course "Globalization II: Commodities, Creeds, and Conjurors")
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"The World in a Pipe: Opium & The Canton Trade" (thematic complement to the above, focused on mid-19th century imperialism in South and East Asia)
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"The World of 1893: Up for Grabs & On Display" (the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 serves as a "global moment" for assessing imperialist agendas in this lecture from my course Globalization II)
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"Colonial Cultures of (Re)Production" (another lecture from Globalization II on the intermingling of sex and commerce and sex as commerce in modern European empires)
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"Crystal Palaces & Glass Houses" (Or perhaps even better: "Empire on Display and Empire in Disarray"--a lecture on the 1851 Great Exhibition in London and the Indian/Sepoy Rebellion of 1857)
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"W(h)ither Globalization? Paradigms and Prospects" (concluding lecture for Globalization II on the current and future challenges and prospects for global cooperation/integration)
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"A ‘Cultivation Complex’?: Plantations in the Atlantic World" (introduces the historical institution of the sugar-slave plantation complex and ponders the place of these institutions within the history of modern capitalism)
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"The Birds & The Bees (Oh, and VDs): Sex & Disease in the Colonial World" (Pretty self-explanatory: this lecture was part of a course on the global history of Medicine & Imperialism)
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"A Womb with a View: The Introduction of Western Obstetrics in Early Nineteenth Century Siam" (Originally presented at the Council on Thai Studies in 2012, I later published a substantially revised version in Bulletin of the History of Medicine)