Jacqueline Van Gent is an early modern historian at The University of Western Australia and Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She has published on early modern religion, gender and colonial mission encounters, religious conversions and emotions, and on gender in the Orange-Nassau family. She has just completed Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern Nassau Family, 1580-1814, Ashgate Publishers, 2016 and Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau, Routledge, 2016 (both co-authored with S. Broomhall). Her current research concerns emotions, materiality and colonial encounters in the context of Moravian missions.
- Company:The University of Western Australia
- Short Bio:Associate Professor English and Cultural Studies
- http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/people/jacqueline.van.gent
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7th September 2016, 12:00-13:15
Encounters and Emotions in Colonial Histories
Encounters and Emotions in Colonial Histories