Colonialism,

Conflict,

&

Commemoration 

June 20-21, 2024

online and in-person

University of Oxford

June 20 - Day 1 (online)

  • Panel 1: Articulating Anti-Colonialism

    10:00 -11:30

    Saukarya Samad, University of Delhi

    Identities, Insecurities and Idioms of Power: Revisiting the Portrayal of British Misrule and the Nucleation of Peasants’ Resistance in Subhash Mukhopadhyay’s Reportage on Colonial Northeastern India


    Aloy Deb Barma & Prajapita Debroy, Mizoram University, India

    Commemorating Colonial Legacies in Postcolonial Borderlands: Kokborok Films and the Dialectic of Double Colonization of Tripura

    Anurag Anand & Udisha, University of Delhi

    Broadcasting Freedom: The Strategic Deployment of Radio in Anti-Colonial Struggle

  • Panel 2: Creations and Contestations

    11:30-12:30
    Isaac Junior Kwarteng, Princeton University

    The Forgotten State: State-remaking, Colonialism, and Contestations in Colonial Denkyira(Ghana).

    Niels Boender, University of Warwick

    Truth or Reconciliation?: Mau Mau and post-colonial state-making in Kenya, 1963-1969

  • Panel 3: Ecology and Colonialism

    13:30 - 14:30

    Ananyo Chakraborty, University of Delhi

    Fluid State of Affairs: Colonialism, Ecology and State in Post-Partition Bengal Delta

    Ruby Ekkel, Australian National University

    ‘Making friends with lyrebirds’: environmental intimacy and settler colonial belonging at Mount Buffalo National Park

  • Panel 4: Media and Memorialisation

    14:30 - 16:00
    Paul Csillag, European University Institute

    From Eugen to Sarajevo – De-imperializing Austrian’s imperial history through film

    Meher Nandrajog, University of Delhi

    Narrating Partition through Interactive Digital Fiction: The ReReeti Foundation’s Un.Divided Identities Exhibition

    Anu Shandilya, University of Delhi

    Threads of Struggle: Textile and Handicraft Traditions in Kashmir as Mediums for Conflict Memorialization and Reconciliation

  • Panel 5: Pedagogy, Reconciliation and Commemoration

    16:30 - 18:30
    Marcelo José Cabarcas Ortega, University of Pittsburgh

    Reclaiming the Narrative: Bojayá and the Role of Memory in Post-Conflict Colombia's Pursuit of Justice

    Matthew Robertson, Metis Nation of Ontario

    From Reconciliation to ‘Idle No More’: ‘Articulation’ and Indigenous Struggle in Canada

    Mark Mallory, Texas A&M University

    Traces of the Black Seminole Diaspora: Black and Native Incorporation in Texas Public History Since 1983

    Marianne P. Quijano, University of Florida

    “Memories of Race, War, and Colonialism in San Blas, Panama, 1925–1968

  • Panel 1: Colony & Metropole

    10:30-11:30

    Lauren Cochrane, University of Exeter

    “Violence and Visuality: Images of British colonial violence in the Colonial Office photographic collections”

    Abha Anuradha Rohanna Calindi, Geneva Graduate Institute

    “Commemorating the Algerian War in France: Counterinsurgency Logics and Legacies in the Metropole”

  • Panel 2: Cultures of Settler Colonialism

    11:30-12:30

    Geena Carlisle, Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität

    ‘What’s it got to do with New Zealand?’: Settler colonialism and the 1981 South African Springbok Rugby Tour to Aotearoa New Zealand

    Bec Beutel, University of Oxford

    “Bama Back on Bubu: Claims for Land, Governance, and Nationhood in the Daintree through the Resurgence of Bama Culture”

  • Panel 3: Boundaries of Ideology & Law

    13:30 - 14:30

    Chloé M. Chbat, University of Manchester (ONLINE)

    “Bordering and Immobility: A Study of the Palestinian Body within the Settler Colonial Context in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)”

    Ella Halpern-Matthews, Columbia University and the London School of Economics

    “Zionism as a Planning Regime: Israeli Settler Colonialism in the Sinai Peninsula, 1967-82”

  • Panel 4: Memory and Transnational Justice

    14:30 - 16:00

    Lucy Gaynor, University of Amsterdam

    ‘The Past is Never Dead: Narrating History the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’

    Zijia Song, University College London

    Revisiting the “Adoptive Father Mentality”: Neo-Colonial Narratives in the U.S. Intervention in the Vietnam War

    Shachar Gannot, Princeton University

    “A Defender of Nazis: Robert Servatius, the State of Israel and the Eichmann Trial”

  • Panel 5: Old Convenors Panel

    Reckoning with Global and Transnational Histories Now

  • Commemoration through Music

    17:30-18:30

    Pete Yelding (University of Bath Spa)

    Debayan Das (University of Oxford)