{"id":355,"date":"2014-11-06T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T09:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=355"},"modified":"2014-11-10T14:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:21:32","slug":"register-now-for-the-connected-histories-of-decolonisation-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Register now for the “Connected Histories of Decolonisation” workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connected Histories of Decolonisation<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>A two-day workshop organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in conjunction with the Centre for European and International Studies Research at the University of Portsmouth and King\u2019s College London<\/p>\n

The Senate Room, Senate House (First Floor)<\/p>\n

Register for this event online at the\u00a0Institute of Commonwealth Studies<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

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Thursday 13th<\/sup> November 2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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11-11.30: Coffee and welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n

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11.30-13.00: Panel 1 \u2013 Creating spaces, connections and networks of resistance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Natalya Vince (University of Portsmouth)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clemens Hoffmann (Bilkent University) – Anti-colonial empires and the creation of Afroasian spaces of resistance<\/p>\n

James Renton (Edge Hill) – The Theatre of the anti-colonial nation: colonial Asia in the age of nationality<\/p>\n

Uma Kothari (University of Manchester) \u2013 Contesting colonial rule: transnational networks of resistance and the politics of exile<\/p>\n

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13.00-14.00: Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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14.00-15.30: Panel 2 – Competing narratives of decolonisation <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Philip Murphy (ICWS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Kuech (The New School of Social Research, New York) \u2013 Duelling Chinese nationalism: a postcolonial confrontation with American power<\/p>\n

Tim Livsey (King\u2019s College London) \u2013 Connected histories of decolonisation and development: the United States, Britain and African universities<\/p>\n

Robert S. G. Fletcher (University of Exeter) \u2013 Decolonisation and the arid world<\/p>\n

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15.30-16.00: Tea<\/strong><\/p>\n

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16.00-17:00: Panel 3 – Connected histories of nationalism <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Ed Naylor (University of Portsmouth)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Sharp (Oxford Brookes) \u2013 A transnational nationalism: the UPC and the decolonisation of Cameroon, 1948-1961<\/p>\n

Camille Evrard (University of Paris I) – Morocco, France and the UN in the Mauritanian decolonization process<\/p>\n

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17.00-17.15: Short break<\/strong><\/p>\n

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17.15-18.45: Panel 4 \u2013 Networks, models and interconnections<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Keith Somerville (ICWS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruno C. Reis (ICS-UL) – The trauma of Belgium decolonization in Portugal: real impact or legitimizing discourse?<\/p>\n

Joanna Warson (University of Portsmouth) \u2013 A French vision of Africa: Franco-African relations beyond colonialism and Francophone Africa<\/p>\n

Marta Musso (University of Cambridge) \u2013 Decolonisation and oil politics: economic interdependence and struggle for self-determination<\/p>\n

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Friday 14th<\/sup> November 2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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9-9.30: Coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n

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9.30-11.00: Panel 5<\/strong> – Diplomacy, development and domestic influences on British decolonisation and its aftermath <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Joanna Warson (University of Portsmouth)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew W M Smith (UCL\/ Chichester) \u2013 \u2018Information about empire\u2019: British overseas representation and Francophone Africa<\/p>\n

Charlotte Riley (University of York) \u2013 \u2018Overseas aid is no longer a form of charity\u2019: Britain, decolonisation and the UN decade of development<\/p>\n

Rosalind Coffey (LSE) \u2013 British press coverage of the Sharpeville massacre<\/p>\n

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11.00-11.30: Coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n

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11.30-12.30: Panel 6 \u2013 France\u00a0in South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Sarah Stockwell (King\u2019s College London)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Konieczna (Sciences Po, Paris) \u2013 The dialogue with Pretoria or a dialogue at cross purposes<\/p>\n

Roel van der Velde (University of Portsmouth) \u2013 Marketing helicopters to Pretoria: reconstructing parallel French and South African military and industrial development, 1955-1977<\/p>\n

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12.30-13.30: Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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13.30-15.00: Panel 7 –<\/strong> Forced labour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Romain Tiquet (Humboldt University at Berlin\/ForcedLabourAfrica) – Accident at work or \u201cself-inflicted\u201d wounds in Senegalese penal camps? Administrative archive and colonial order<\/p>\n

V\u00edctor Fern\u00e1ndez Soriano (University of Thessaly, Greece\/ForcedLabourAfrica) – The Belgian enigma: reform and stagnation in the Province of Equateur, Belgian Congo (1945-1960)<\/p>\n

Alexander Keese (Humboldt University at Berlin\/ForcedLabourAfrica) – Business as usual: repressive practices, the “vagabond problem”,<\/p>\n

and labour policies in the Middle Congo (1945-1968)<\/p>\n

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15.00-15.30: Tea<\/strong><\/p>\n

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15.30-16.30:<\/strong> Panel 8 – Human rights, anti-imperialist nationalism, decolonisation: mapping the global impact of the August 1941 Atlantic Charter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chair: Margaret Majumdar (University of Portsmouth)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin Evans (University of Sussex) – From the general to the specific: the regional impact of the Atlantic Charter in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia<\/p>\n

Clive Webb (University of Sussex) – African Americans, the Atlantic Charter and the global Civil Rights movement<\/p>\n

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16.30-17.00: Concluding round table discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n

With remarks from Philip Murphy (ICWS)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0To register for this event, please visit the\u00a0Institute of Commonwealth Studies<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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