An International History Conference, The Education University of Hong Kong, (24-25 May 2019)
Dr. Donna Brunero
Donna Brunero is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. Her interests in the intersections between maritime and imperial history have led her to research and write on the British in maritime Asia with a particular focus on topics such as the British-administered Chinese Maritime Customs Service and colonial-era maritime ethnography. Her current research projects include: examining the legacies of British empire builders (Raffles and Brooke) in Southeast Asia; the views of Meiji Japan from the China coast press; and the lives and careers of Britons at the "maritime frontiers" of empire.
Selected publications include the edited volumes: Life in Treaty Port China and Japan, co-edited with Stephanie Villalta Puig, (Palgrave 2018) and Empire in Asia: A New Global History, Vol. 2, The Long Nineteenth Century, co-edited with Brian P. Farrell, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). She is also author of Britain’s Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service 1854-1949 (Routledge, 2006).
Professor Simon J. Potter
Simon J. Potter is Professor of Modern History and Head of History at the University of Bristol, UK. He specialises in British imperial and media histories. His work brings together ideas and debates from these disparate fields, examining the role of newspapers, periodicals, radio, and television in sustaining (and undermining) the British empire, and in creating new patterns of global interconnection. He has also written extensively on the wider historiographies of the British empire and the British world, and on recent developments in Global History. His publications include British Imperial History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Broadcasting Empire: the BBC and the British World, 1922-1970 (Oxford University Press, 2012), and News and the British World: the Emergence of an Imperial Press System, 1876-1922 (Oxford University Press, 2003). He is currently working on a new book, Inventing Global Radio: Interwar British Broadcasting, Internationalism, and Propaganda, which is set for publication with Oxford University Press in 2019/20. Professor Potter is recipient of a Leverhulme Trust International Network grant (2016-2019), leading a major international research network on global radio history. He also recently finished work funded by an University of Bristol strategic grant examining the research potential of the Bristol Museums and Archives British Empire and Commonwealth Collections.