Inaugural Project Meeting

On 5 October 2021 we had our very first meeting as a project team in our new office, shared between the PI (Felicia Gottmann) and the two Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Floris van Swet and Rémi Dewière, and with plenty of additional desk space for our two PhD students, Oliver Gunning and June Watson, and a large meeting table to accommodate all of us. We even have a sofa, a beanbag, and most crucially perhaps, tea and coffee-making equipment and a well-stocked biscuit tin, so do come and visit us in Northumbria University’s Lipman Building!

Floris and Oliver in the office.

As part of the project Felicia will be covering the case studies from Central and Western Europe and their colonies; Rémi will be working on the Islamic world, that is the great gunpowder empires and smaller polities of the Middle East, Islamic Africa and South Asia; and Floris on the Sinosophere, the broader East Asian cultural sphere of East and Southeast Asia. Oliver Gunning, the project PhD student will be working on a smaller study of the British Isles and June Watson, our associate PhD student will focus on global female knowledge networks.

Rémi joining us remotely

We will have regular meetings, planning and reading group sessions, but also work remotely as required. So far, the technology has not failed us.