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The Senate Room, Senate House (First Floor)
To register for this event, please visit the Institute of Commonwealth Studies website
Thursday 13th November 2014
11-11.30 : Coffee and welcome
11.30-13.00 : Panel 1 – Creating spaces, connections and networks of resistance
Clemens Hoffmann (Bilkent University) – Anti-colonial empires and the creation of Afroasian spaces of resistance
James Renton (Edge Hill) – The Theatre of the anti-colonial nation : colonial Asia in the age of nationality
Uma Kothari (University of Manchester) – Contesting colonial rule : transnational networks of resistance and the politics of exile
13.00-14.00 : Lunch
14.00-15.30 : Panel 2 – Competing narratives of decolonisation
Andrew Kuech (The New School of Social Research, New York) – Duelling Chinese nationalism : a postcolonial confrontation with American power
Tim Livsey (King’s College London) – Connected histories of decolonisation and development : the United States, Britain and African universities
Robert S. G. Fletcher (University of Exeter) – Decolonisation and the arid world
15.30-16.00 : Tea
16.00-17:30 : Panel 3 – Connected histories of nationalism
Thomas Sharp (Oxford Brookes) – A transnational nationalism : the UPC and the decolonisation of Cameroon, 1948-1961
Camille Evrard (University of Paris I) – Morocco, France and the UN in the Mauritanian decolonization process
Marta Musso (University of Cambridge) – Decolonisation and oil politics : economic interdependence and struggle for self-determination
17.30-17.45 : Short break
17.45-18.45 : Panel 4 – Networks, models and interconnections
Bruno C. Reis (ICS-UL) – The trauma of Belgium decolonization in Portugal : real impact or legitimizing discourse ?
Nathalie Mrgudovic (Aston University) – The Cook Islands : a new model of decolonisation for New Caledonia ?
Friday 14th November 2014
9-9.30 : Coffee
9.30-11.00 : Panel 5 – Diplomacy, development and domestic influences on British decolonisation and its aftermath
Andrew W M Smith (UCL/ University of Chichester) – ‘Information about empire’ : British overseas representation and Francophone Africa
Charlotte Riley (University of York) – ‘Overseas aid is no longer a form of charity’ : Britain, decolonisation and the UN decade of development
Rosalind Coffey (LSE) – British press coverage of the Sharpeville massacre
11.00-11.30 : Coffee
11.30-13.00 : Panel 6 – France in Anglophone Africa
Joanna Warson (University of Portsmouth) – A French vision of Africa : Franco-African relations beyond colonialism and Francophone Africa
Anna Konieczna (Sciences Po, Paris) – The dialogue with Pretoria or a dialogue at cross purposes
Roel van der Velde (University of Portsmouth) – Marketing helicopters to Pretoria : reconstructing parallel French and South African military and industrial development, 1955-1977
13.00-14.00 : Lunch
14.00-15.30 : Panel 7 - Forced labour
Romain Tiquet (Humboldt University at Berlin/ForcedLabourAfrica) – Accident at work or “self-inflicted” wounds in Senegalese penal camps ? Administrative archive and colonial order
Víctor Fernández Soriano (University of Thessaly, Greece/ForcedLabourAfrica) – The Belgian enigma : reform and stagnation in the Province of Equateur, Belgian Congo (1945-1960)
Alexander Keese (Humboldt University at Berlin/ForcedLabourAfrica) – Business as usual : repressive practices, the “vagabond problem”, and labour policies in the Middle Congo (1945-1968)
15.30-16.00 : Tea
16.00-17.00 : Panel 8 – Human rights, anti-imperialist nationalism, decolonisation : mapping the global impact of the August 1941 Atlantic Charter
Martin Evans (University of Sussex) – From the general to the specific : the regional impact of the Atlantic Charter in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
Clive Webb (University of Sussex) – African Americans, the Atlantic Charter and the global Civil Rights movement
17.00-17.30 : Concluding round table discussion
For more information, please visit the Institute of Commonwealth Studies website or contact Dr. Joanna Warson joanna.warson chez port.ac.uk
Page créée le mercredi 3 décembre 2014, par Dominique Taurisson-Mouret.