Connected Histories of Decolonisation Workshop
Institute of Commonwealth Studies in conjunction with
the Centre for European and International Studies Research at the
University of Portsmouth and King’s College London
The Senate Room, Senate House (First Floor)
Thursday 13th November 2014
11-11.30: Coffee and welcome
11.30-13.00: Panel 1 – Creating spaces, connections and networks of resistance
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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
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Andrew Kuech (The New School of Social Research, New York) – Duelling
Chinese nationalism: a postcolonial confrontation with American power
Tim Livsey (Birkbeck) – 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
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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
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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?
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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
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Andrew W M Smith (UCL/ 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
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Joanna Warson (University of Portsmouth) – A French vision of Africa: FrancoAfrican 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
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Romain Tiquet (Humboldt University at Berlin/ForcedLabourAfrica) - Uneasy
continuities: the alleged end of forced labour in Casamance (1945-1970)
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
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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