<meta charset="utf-8"><div style="text-align: left; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#660000" style="font-size: large; ">PLEASE NOTE: </font>There will be no STS Circle next Monday, March 14th. The talk below will be on March 21st.</b></span></div>
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</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font size="4"><b>John Mathew</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; "><i>History of Science, Harvard</i></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; ">
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<br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: large; "><b>Encountering Fauna in late 18th and early 19th Euro-Colonial India </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; ">
<span style="font-size: large; "><b></b></span> </div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000">Monday, March 21st</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; ">
<font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; "><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 13px; ">
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<font color="#000000">Lunch is provided if you <span class="il">RSVP</span>.</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">
<font color="#000000">Please <span class="il">RSVP</span> to </font><font color="#000000" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "><span><span><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "><span><span><span>sts</span></span></span></a></span></span><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); ">@hks.harvard.edu</a> </font><font color="#000000">by 5pm Thursday, March 17th.</font></div>
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<b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Abstract:</b><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">In this paper, I explore the manner in which animals were encountered through European, particularly French and British eyes, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The British had an implicit governmental agenda, not least the legitimization of their own rule through the assumption of the trappings of the Mughal emperors. Such angles as the elaboration of the hunt, the increasing establishment of menageries and animals as objects of artistic rendition were symbolic of that effort. The French, though relegated to tiny colonies on the Indian subcontinent and dependent upon the largesse of the British to undertake natural history studies, pursued their explorations as a continuation of the late 18th century French modus operandus of understanding the scientific world, with collections returned to the Mus'eum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) in Paris. Although European systems of classification as organizing principles grew in this period, not least through the efforts of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (founded 1784), the influence of Indians was more than merely the role of interlocutors, with such aspects as Company Art drawing upon native traditions of expertise as much as that of British influence.</span></font></div>
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<br></div><div style="text-align: left; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><b style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Biography</b><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><span style="border-collapse: collapse; ">: </span></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; ">John Mathew is currently drawing to the close of his doctoral program in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, where his focus has been the making of taxonomic zoology in British India. He holds a Ph.D. in Ecological Sciences from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia and an A. M. in Medical Anthropology from Harvard University, along with undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Zoology from the Madras Christian College, Madras (Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India.</span></font></div>
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<font color="#000000">A complete list of <span><span><span><span><span>STS</span></span></span> </span></span><span><span><span><span><span>Circle</span></span></span> </span></span>at Harvard events can be found on our website:</font></div>
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