MILINDA BANERJEE: CURRICULUM VITAE Email Address: [email protected] Date of Birth: 18 April 1985 Nationality: Indian CAREER AND EDUCATION 2017-2019: Research Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU), Munich. November 2014: Defended PhD in Heidelberg University (Summa cum Laude). 2013-2016: Research Fellow in Junior Research Group ‘Transcultural Justice: Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1946-1954’, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany. 2012-ongoing: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata. 2010-2014: PhD candidate at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows’, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany. Member of research project A5: ‘Nationising the Dynasty’. 2010-2011: Taught at Department of History, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University. 2010: Assistant Professor at Surendranath College, Kolkata (University of Calcutta). 2008-2010: Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of History, University of Calcutta. 2008-2010: Guest lecturer at Presidency College, Kolkata (University of Calcutta). 2008: Part-time guest lecturer at Vidyasagar College, Evening Section, Kolkata (University of Calcutta). 2007: Qualified in the National Eligibility Test (NET) examinations, University Grants Commission, Government of India. 2006-2008: MA in History, University of Calcutta (Graded 1st class 1st). 2003-2006: BA in History, University of Calcutta (Graded 1st class 1st). LANGUAGE SKILLS Bengali (mother tongue) English (native) Hindi (proficient) French (proficient) Latin (elementary). 1 BOOKS (MONOGRAPHS) 2009: Rammohun Roy: A Pilgrim’s Progress, Intellectual Strands and Premises in Rammohun Roy’s Pursuit of Reason, God, and Common Sense in Early Modern India, with a foreword by Barun De, Kolkata: Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, 2009. 2009: A History of Laughter: Ishwar Gupta and Early Modern Bengal, with a foreword by Gautam Bhadra, Kolkata: Das Gupta and Co., 2009. ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 2016: ‘Besitz, Widerstand und globale Geistesgeschichte im Spiegel des Chandimangal aus dem frühmodernen Bengalen’ [Property, Resistance, and Global Intellectual History in the Mirror of Chandimangal from Early Modern Bengal], in Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte, 17 (1) 2016: 71-90. 2015: ‘“All This is Indeed Brahman”: Rammohun Roy and a ‘Global’ History of the Rights-Bearing Self’, in The Asian Review of World Histories, 3 (1) 2015: 81-112. 2010: ‘State of Nature, Civilized Society, and Social Contract: Perspectives from Early Modern Bengal on the Origin and Limits of Government’, Calcutta Historical Journal, 28 (2) 2008 [backlog issue]: 1-55. 2009: ‘The Trial of Derozio, or the Scandal of Reason’, Social Scientist, 37 (7-8) 2009: 60-88. 2009: '1857-r Nana Bhasha' [The Many Languages of 1857], Sahitya Parishad Patrika, May 2009: 44-55. 2008: ‘Heritage Unbound’, Journal of the Asiatic Society, 50 (4) 2008: 43-110. BOOK CHAPTERS IN PEER-REVIEWED VOLUMES 2016: ‘Decolonization and Subaltern Sovereignty: India and the Tokyo Trial’, in Kerstin von Lingen (ed.), War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956, London: Palgrave, 2016, 69-91. 2016: ‘Ocular Sovereignty, Acclamatory Rulership, and Political Communication: Visits of Princes of Wales to Bengal’, in Heidi Mehrkens and Frank Lorenz Müller (eds.), ‘Winning their Trust and Affection’: Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe, London: Palgrave, 2016, 81-100. 2016: ‘Gods in a Democracy: State of Nature, Postcolonial Politics, and Bengali Mangalkabyas’, in Jyotsna Singh and David Kim (eds.), The Postcolonial World, London: Routledge, 2016, 184-205. 2015: ‘Doubt, Authority and the Individual. Rammohun Roy, Christian Missionary Discourses and Political Theology in Early Nineteenth-Century Bengal’, in Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach-Fuchs, and Wolfgang Reinhard (eds.), Individualisierung durch christliche Mission? 2 [Individualization through Christian Missionary Activity?], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, 438-456. *2014: ‘Does International Criminal Justice Require a Sovereign? Historicizing Radhabinod Pal’s Tokyo Judgment in Light of his ‘Indian’ Legal Philosophy’, in Morten Bergsmo, Cheah Wui Ling, and Yi Ping (eds.), Historical Origins of International Criminal Law, vol. 2, 67-117, Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law Publication Series No. 21 (2014), Brussels: Torkel Opsahl, 2014, archived in International Criminal Court Legal Tools Database, https://www.legal-tools.org/en/doc/7c217c/ . TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Designed and Taught by me in Presidency University Postgraduate HIST0703A: Global Intellectual History I: Intersections of South Asia and Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century HIST0803A: Global Intellectual History II: Intersections of Early Modern South Asia and Europe Undergraduate HIST0102: Ancient India: Intellectual Histories, Political and Religious Cultures, Social Contexts HIST0402: Early Modern Europe in a Global Age General Education (co-designed and co-taught with Political Science Department) POLS0132: Japan: Emerging Power in the Asian Century Undergraduate Course Designed and Taught by me at Department of History, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University Gods, Jesters, Reformers, and Kings in the Making of the Indian Nation RESEARCH SUPERVISION I supervise about 2 to 3 MA dissertations every academic year in Presidency University, and a similar number of BA dissertations. 3 GRANT CAPTURE: THIRD PARTY FUNDING AND COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS (Year refers to the year of grant award) 2016: Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) Research Fellowship. 2016: Participant in DFG (German Research Foundation) Grant for Initiation of International Collaboration on research about ‘Indian Nationals in Transitional Justice after WWII in the Pacific-Asian Region: as Victims, Judges, and Prison Guards’, in association with scholars from Marburg University, Heidelberg University, Australian National University, and Murdoch University, Perth (Principal Participant: Wolfgang Form, Marburg University). 2015: Partner in Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation Grant for establishing an ‘Indian-Danish Research Network on the Social History of Serampore, West Bengal, India’ (Principal Partner: Bente Wolff, National Museum of Denmark). 2014: UKIERI (UK-India Education and Research Initiative) Grant on ‘Narratives of Migration’, in collaboration between Presidency University and University of St Andrews. 2014: Project on creating a digital database on the ‘Dutch in Bengal’ with the Netherlands Embassy in India. 2013: Research Fellowship in Junior Research Group ‘Transcultural Justice: Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1946-1954’, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany. 2013: Co-investigator in Interdisciplinary (History/Political Science) Research Project ‘Languages of Empowerment: Producing Community Identities among Backward Classes in Contemporary West Bengal’: Project at Rabindranath Tagore Centre for Human Development Studies (UGC-sponsored Joint Initiative of University of Calcutta and Institute of Development Studies Kolkata). 2010: PhD Scholarship at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows’, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany; member of research project A5: Nationising the Dynasty. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION 2017: (with Ilya Afanasyev, University of Birmingham) International Conference ‘The Modern Invention of Dynasty: A Global Intellectual History of the Concept, 1500-2000’, at Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, 21-23 September. 2016: (with Kerstin von Lingen, Heidelberg University) International Conference ‘Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History’, Heidelberg University, 19-21 June. 2015: (with Souvik Mukherjee, Presidency University): International Conference ‘Narratives of Migration’, Presidency University, 19 January. 4 2014: (with Souvik Mukherjee, Presidency University, the Embassy of the Netherlands in India, and the Department of Tourism, Government of West Bengal), International Workshop ‘The Dutch in Bengal’, Presidency University, 25 February. 2012: (with Project A5, ‘Nationising the Dynasty’, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe’, Heidelberg University) International Conference ‘Nationizing the Dynasty – Dynastizing the Nation’, University of California, Los Angeles, 12-14 April. MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL INSTUTIONS AND NETWORKS Associate Member, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, Heidelberg University. Member, ‘The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood’ Research Network, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford. Member, European Hobbes Society. Member, Royal Studies Network. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES 2017: ‘Conceptualizing Sovereignty as an Ephiphenomenon of Colonial (Legal) Violence? Radhabinod Pal and the Tokyo Trial in Global Intellectual History’,