The history department of St Dominic’s College hosted a guest lecture by Prof Andrew May of the University of Melbourne yesterday.
The topic was ‘Encounter in the Archive: Exploring culture, identity and colonialism in North East India’. The event was attended by students and faculty of St Dominic’s and other institutions.
May is a social historian with expertise across Australian urban history, colonialism in North East India and digital techniques in the humanities. He is also a descendant of the ‘Father of the Khasi Alphabet’, Thomas Jones.
