Conference Programme Mountstuart Elphinstone and the Historical Foundations of Afghanistan Studies: Reframing Colonial Knowledge of the Indo-Persian World in the Post-Colonial Era Friday, 6 November - Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS, 08.30-14.30 Saturday, 7 November - British Library Conference Centre, 09.00-17.00 Friday 6 November SOAS Djam Lecture Theatre, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG 08.30 AM – 14.30 PM 0830 - 0845 Opening Remarks 0845 - 1015 Panel A Introducing and Extending Elphinstone Ben Hopkins, George Washington University Elphinstone through the Ages Jonathan Lee Elphinstone’s ‘Kingdom of Caubul’, the Turkic world and the Durrani Dynasty Francesca Fuoli, SOAS Race, tribe and sovereignty in the late Nineteenth century reconfiguration of Anglo- Afghan relations 1015 – 1030 Tea/Coffee Break 1030 – 1200 Panel B Malcolm, Elphinstone and the Frontier Jack Harringon, LSE John Malcolm M. Jamil Hanifi, Michigan State University The Inheritance of Mountstuart Elphinstone’s 1809 visit to the ‘Kingdom of Caubul’ Zak Leonard, University of Chicago Ambiguous Fanaticism as Ethnographic Trope: a Deconstruction 1200 – 1300 Lunch 1300 - 1430 Keynote Address William Dalrymple William Fraser and Shah Shuja: A New Source for the Elphinstone Mission Afternoon: British Library Documents Session for Participants and Guests 1500 – 1545 Group 1 1545 – 1600 Handover between groups 1600 – 1645 Group 2 Saturday 7 November British Library Conference Centre 09.00 AM – 17.00 PM Bronte Room for panels Elliot Room for breaks, lunch, and reception 0900 – 1030 Panel A (AM) Before Elphinstone and His Indian Experiences Senzil Nawid, University of Arizona George Forster, Mountstuart Elphinstone, and Charles Masson: The Discovery of Afghanistan in the Era of Imperialism Lynn Zastoupil, Rhodes College Mountstuart Elphinstone and Indian Education Spencer Leonard, James Madison University Do Imperialists do Better Research? James Grant Duff's ‘History of the Mahrattas’ 1030 – 1100 Tea/Coffee Break 1100 – 1230 Panel B (AM) Metcalfe and Comparative Frontiers Brian Spooner, University of Pennsylvania A New Look at the North West Frontier Thomas Simpson, Cambridge University Frontiers on the mind: romanticism, knowledge, and violence at colonial India’s north-eastern fringes in the early nineteenth century Robert Nichols, Stockton University Information and affect in Charles Metcalfe’s Mission to Lahore, August 1808-May 1809 1230 – 1330 Lunch 1330 – 1500 Panel A (PM) Elphinstone, Russia, and the Himalayas Timothy A. Nunan, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies The Soviet Elphinstone: Colonial Histories, Post-Colonial Presents, and Socialist Futures in the Soviet Reception of British Orientalism Vladimir Boyko, Altai State University Elphinstone Heritage and New Approaches in Russian/Soviet/Post-Soviet Afghan Studies Kyle Gardner University of Chicago Elphinstone, Moorcroft, and the Spectre of Afghanistan in the northwestern Himalaya 1500 – 1530 Tea/Coffee Break 1530 – 1700 Panel B (PM) Elphinstone and Colonial Knowledge Formations Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University A Sampling of the Silences and Emphases in Mountstuart Elphinstone’s Journey to Peshawar and ‘An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul’ Martin Bayly, LSE Taming the imperial imagination: ‘Colonial governmentality’ and the northwest frontier of India, 1845-1878 Elisabeth Leake, Royal Holloway College, University of London Elphinstone and the internationalization of Afghanistan: Comparative British and American approaches in the twentieth century 1700 – 1830 Reception .