Teresa Segura-Garcia
Historian
Main focus: Indian History (19th-20th c.)
Websites/blogs: https://tseguragarcia.com/ , https://www.linkedin.com/in/tseguragarcia/
Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan
City: Barcelona
Country: Spain
Topics: gender, gender history, south asia, british empire, colonialism, decolonisation, global history, history, india, imperialism
Services: Talk, Moderation, Workshop management, Consulting, Interview
Willing to travel for an event.
Willing to talk for nonprofit.
I am a historian of Modern South Asia based at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, where I am a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación Postdoctoral Fellow. My research on nineteenth and twentieth-century India explores several often overlapping topics: the princely states, the political and cultural exchanges between the Indian subcontinent and Europe, gender and masculinity, and visual culture.
I hold a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. After my PhD, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi (with an ICAS:MP fellowship, awarded by the M. S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies) and at UPF (with a Juan de la Cierva-Formación Fellowship by the Government of Spain). At UPF, I am a member of the Department of Humanities and the Jaume Vicens i Vives Institute of History (IHJVV).
Examples of previous talks / appearances:
“150 Years of Indian History in Cambridge” is the outreach project I developed as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. It is a walking tour that explores the last century and a half of Indian history through the stories of Indian students at the University of Cambridge. As it takes participants through Cambridge’s historic city centre, the tour examines the experiences of little-known early Indian students at the University, as well as the trajectories of those who went on to play central roles in South Asian politics, society, and culture — Jawaharlal Nehru, Aurobindo Ghose, Sarojini Naidu, and Muhammad Iqbal, among others.
I researched and designed the tour in 2013 as my final project for Rising Stars, a public engagement training course at the University of Cambridge. It went from idea to reality as part of three annual festivals that bring the University’s research closer to the public: the Festival of Ideas (2013), the Alumni Festival (2014) and Open Cambridge (2017). I guided the tours in all these occasions. The 2017 tours were organised in collaboration with the India Unboxed initiative, which marked the UK-India Year of Culture 2017.
As an offshoot of my research for the walking tour, in 2015 I wrote a piece on the unique history of Indian student admissions at Downing College, which happens to be my college in Cambridge. In 2017 the college archivist, Jenny Ulph, curated a temporary exhibition based on my research at Downing’s Maitland Robinson Library.
This talk is in: English
Talk in National Lottery Heritage Fund project “Selective inclusion: African and Asian celebrities in London’s Vanity Fair magazine, 1868–1914”, South Asian Cinema Foundation (SACF), United Kingdom, 10 July 2021
This talk is in: English
Obrim-los, Obrim-les Association Talk Series, La Llacuna Cultural Centre, Andorra la Vella, Andorra, 23 November 2019
This talk is in: English
Workshop for secondary school students in course “Feminism: A tool to examine and transform society”. Campus Júnior, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 8 July 2019 (with Meritxell Ferrer)
This talk is in: English
Talk in extension course program Aula d’Extensió Universitària de Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Balldovina Tower Museum, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Catalonia, 23 November 2022
This talk is in: Catalan
Talk in extension course program Aula d’Extensió Universitària del Masnou (AEUM), El Masnou, Catalonia, 19 January 2021
This talk is in: Catalan