{"id":81,"date":"2015-10-01T22:58:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T21:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2019-10-18T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:00:07","slug":"past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Past events"},"content":{"rendered":"

17 October 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Abraham Mlombo (University of the Free State) \u2018Southern Africa and the Making of South Africa\u2019s Foreign Relations, 1960s \u2013 1980s\u2019.<\/p>\n

9 May 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Hlengiwe Dlamini (University of the Free State) ‘King Sobhuza II of Eswatini vs British Political Modernity’<\/p>\n

28 March 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Gillian Mathys (Ghent),\u00a0\u2018Mobility and Exclusion: \u00a0Making Borders and Identities in Central Africa\u2019 (19th-20th century)’<\/p>\n

14 March 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Temilola Alanamu (Kent), \u00a0‘Controlling the independence narrative: Nigerian newspapers and a woman’s place’<\/p>\n

7 March 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

ANNUAL LECTURE: Dr Alicia C. Decker (Penn State) “Mothers” of the Nation: A Gendered History of the Uganda Police Force’<\/p>\n

28 February 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Amelia Bonea (Heidelberg),\u00a0‘Fake News Is Old News? Technologies of Communication and Practices of (Mis)Reporting in Colonial India’<\/p>\n

12 December 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tarryn Gourley (Kent) \u2018Sacrificial Lambs\u2019: Youth During Zambia\u2019s First Republic, 1964-1972\u2032<\/p>\n

6 December 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

BOOK LAUNCH:\u00a0\u00a0Dr Matteo Grilli (University of the Free State),\u00a0Nkrumahism and African Nationalism: Ghana’s Pan-African Foreign Policy in the age of Decolonization.<\/em><\/p>\n

16 November 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Robert Fletcher (University of Warwick), \u2018Deserts and the End of Empire\u2019<\/p>\n

25 October 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Bala Chandra (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) ‘India,\u00a0Diaspora and the South African War of 1899-1902’<\/p>\n

11 October 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr David Patrick (University of the Free State) ‘The illusion of caring: media responses to genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia’<\/p>\n

4 October 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Ruth Craggs (Kings College London) ‘Subaltern geopolitics and the post-colonial Commonwealth, 1965-1990’.<\/p>\n

22 March 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

BOOK LAUNCH: Dr Joanna Lewis (London School of Economics)\u00a0Empire of Sentiment: Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism<\/em>.<\/p>\n

15 March 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Kegel (University of Kent), \u2018When the army robs banks: civil insecurity in Rwanda 1990-1994\u2019.<\/p>\n

9 March 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

ANNUAL LECTURE: Professor Michael Broers (University of Oxford) \u2018Nuestras Indias? The European Origins of European Colonialism: The First Napoleonic Empire and a Subaltern Europe\u2019.<\/p>\n

15 February 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Nick White (Liverpool John Moores University)\u00a0‘Entrepreneurship, Cold War and Decolonisation: Australia’s ‘Mystery Millionaires’ and Malaysia’s Iron Ore’.<\/p>\n

9 February 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Lorena Rizzo (University of Basel) ‘”Presence. The Breakwater Prison Albums, Cape Town, 1890s to 1900s’.<\/p>\n

18 January 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr David Kenrick (University of Oxford)\u00a0\u2018The Past is Our Country: The National History of Rhodesia\u2019.<\/p>\n

14 December 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Alex Sutton (University of Chichester) ‘Gentlemanly Capitalism, Idealism and the State’.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

30 November 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Nicholls (University of Kent), \u2018The Door to the Coast of Africa: The Seychelles in the Mascarene Slave Trade, 1770-1830\u2019.<\/p>\n

23 November 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Tinashe Nyamunda (University of Cambridge) \u2018The Politics of Development Financing: The Kariba Dam Complex 1956-1976\u2019.<\/p>\n

9 November 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Walima T. Kalusa (University of Cambridge),\u00a0\u2018The Politics of the Corpse: President Levy Mwawasa\u2019s Death, Corpse, Funeral and Political Contestation in Post-Colonial Zambia\u2019<\/p>\n

19 October 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Laura Evans (Sheffield Hallam University) ‘Contextualising Apartheid at the\u00a0End of Empire: Repression, ‘Development’ and the Bantustans’.<\/p>\n

5 October 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

BOOK LAUNCH: Dr Andrew Cohen (University of Kent)\u00a0The Politics and Economics of Decolonization in Africa: The Failed Experiment of the Central African Federation\u00a0<\/em>(London, 2017).<\/p>\n

23 May 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Ivo Mhike (University of the Free State), ‘White Poverty, State Paternalism and Educational Reforms in Southern Rhodesia, 1930s-1940s\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

16 March 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Annalisa Urbano (Bayreuth University) ‘The struggle for Somalia\u2019s future: the UN debate, socio-political mobilisations and the Mogadishu Killings in 1948<\/span>\u2019.<\/p>\n

15 March 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Kate Law (University of Chichester), ‘Struggles within the struggle: White Women and Liberal Politics in Colonial Zimbabwe c.1950-80’.<\/p>\n

9 March 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth Studies), \u2018Andrew Roth\u2019s End of Empire: an unfinished history of decolonization\u2019.<\/p>\n

2 February 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (University of Amsterdam), \u2018Beyond the \u2018Trauma of Decolonisation\u2019: Dutch Cultural Diplomacy during the West New Guinea Question (1950\u201362)\u2019.<\/p>\n

24 November 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jamie Wintrup (University of Cambridge) \u2018Dependence, desperation, and liberalism: revisiting the history of the Tonga-speaking people of southern Zambia\u2019.<\/p>\n

27 October 2016\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Lazlo Passemiers (University of the\u00a0Free State), ‘The Congo Alliance: Leopoldville’s Support of Southern Africa’s liberation Struggle, 1963-1964’.<\/p>\n

25 October 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

BOOK LAUNCH: Dr Giacomo Macola (University of Kent),\u00a0The Gun in Central Africa: A History of\u00a0Technology\u00a0and Politics\u00a0<\/em>(Ohio, 2016).<\/p>\n

14 March 2016
\n<\/strong>ANNUAL LECTURE: Professor Philippa Levine (University of Texas at Austin): ‘The Inner, Outer and After lives of Empire’<\/p>\n

10 March 2016
\n<\/strong>Dr Matthew Hopper (Cambridge): \u2018Freedom without Equality: Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World\u2019<\/p>\n

17 February 2016
\n<\/strong>Dr Andrew Cohen (University of Kent):\u00a0‘The ‘Lonrho Affair’ and the Late Colonial World’<\/p>\n

10 December 2015
\n<\/strong>Dr David Patrick (University of the Free State): ‘The Wrong Kind of Genocide? Anglo-American Press Coverage of Rwanda, 1994’<\/p>\n

2 December 2015
\n<\/strong>Dr Alessandro Pes (University of Cagliari):\u00a0‘An Empire for the Nation: Fascist Policies and Propaganda in\u00a0Italian East Africa, 1936-1941’<\/p>\n

25 November 2015
\n<\/strong>Adam Houldsworth (University of the Free State): ‘Buthelezi, Burke, and Apartheid South Africa, 1985-1989’<\/p>\n

16 October 2015
\n<\/strong>Professor Fransjohan Pretorius: ‘Jan Smuts in the Boer War: The beginning of his sanguine years’<\/p>\n

6 March 2015
\n<\/strong>ANNUAL LECTURE: Professor Derek Petersen (University of Michigan) ‘The Uganda Museum and the History of Heritage in Africa’<\/p>\n

10 February 2015
\n<\/strong>Professor William G. Clarence-Smith, (SOAS) ‘Animals of the War in the Middle East, 1914-18’<\/p>\n

7-8 July 2014
\n<\/strong>Two-Day Workshop:\u00a0\u2018Hard and Soft Power: Questions of Race, Intimacy and Violence in the Comparative Colonial Toolkit\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

3 April 2014
\n<\/strong>ANNUAL LECTURE: Professor John M. Mackenzie (Professor Emeritus, University of Lancaster), ‘Colonial and Imperial Studies: Fifty Years of Dramatic Change’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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