Sujit Sivasundaram invited by Ines G. Županov & Marie Fourcade is Lecturer in World and Imperial History since 1500 at the University of Cambridge as well as Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies at Gonville and Caius College.

His research interests are in the history of the Pacific and South and South-East Asia; global histories of science; the history of race; historical geographies of empire; the comparative histories of empires and moments of imperial transition; maritime and oceanic history; the history of Buddhism and Christianity.

He is giving the first two lectures in February of 2014, based on two chapters from his recently published book: ‘Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony’ (Chicago University Press, 2013). Chapters of Islanded will be precirculated for these two talks.