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SUMMARY:Landscape paintings and maps in Ireland and India in the 18th cent
 ury - Alix Chartrand 
DTSTART:20151111T170000Z
DTEND:20151111T190000Z
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CONTACT:Maeve Devitt Tremblay
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the early modern period and the eighteenth century\
 , the British need to categorise the peoples\, concepts and events that th
 ey encountered or experienced in their colonies was a primary component of
 \, and contributor to\, the expansion of the burgeoning empire.  Extending
  beyond documentary forms of classification\, material culture played a si
 gnificant role in this project.  This paper considers the British use of m
 aterial culture to create banks of knowledge in two distinct colonial sett
 ings\, Ireland and India\, focusing on the production of maps\, landscape 
 portraits\, and visual commemorations of historical events in the later po
 rtion of the eighteenth century.  Throughout this period\, material cultur
 e contributed to the development of specific British attitudes with regard
 s to Ireland and India\, while also influencing the administrative and mil
 itary policies adopted in both areas.  Visual representations of the terri
 tories provided invaluable tools during this period of expansion\, renderi
 ng them visible to the public for the first time\, thus helping to shape B
 ritish opinion on Ireland and India.
LOCATION:Junior Parlour\, Gonville and Caius College 
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