Dear All,

There will be a meeting next week (15 October) in Madison that may be of
interest to list members:

Drugs, Medicines, History and South Asia
Chair: David Courtwright, University of North Florida.

Cocaine in Colonial India: The Making of a Drugs Scare, (James Mills,
University of Strathclyde)
'Medical Murders': Safeguarding the Medicinal Market in British India,
1900-1940, (Patricia Barton, University of Strathclyde).
Opium Sovereignties: Empires and Peripheries in Conflict across South and
East Asia, 1757-1876, (David Bello, Southern Connecticut University).
A Good Smoking Extract is Like a Fine Wine: How to comprehend the
India-China opium trade, 1757-1925, (Paul Winther, Eastern Kentucky
University).

This is a panel of Madison's Annual Conference on South Asia (see
http://wiscweb3.wisc.edu/southasiaconference/panel4.html) for details.

The panellists are meeting for dinner in the evening and all are welcome to
join them.  For those who don't know, David Courtwright's many publications
include the recent 'Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Making of
the Modern World', Patricia Barton is working on a history of the Chemical
Examiner's role in colonial India, David Bello will publish 'Opium and the
Limits of Empire' with Harvard next year and Paul Winther's achievements
include 'Anglo-Indian Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium and
British rule in India, 1756-1895' published in 2003.