{"id":46,"date":"2015-09-30T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T17:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/?p=46"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T17:17:41","slug":"colonial-futures-panel-at-2015-shcy-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/2015\/09\/30\/colonial-futures-panel-at-2015-shcy-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Futures Panel at 2015 SHCY conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gitxsan Totem Pole (1960), Thunderbird Park, Victoria, BC, Canada. Carved by Mungo Martin, Henry Hunt, and Tony Hunt<\/p><\/div>\n

In June 2015, Emily Manktelow organised a panel at\u00a0the 2015 Society of the History of Children and Youth conference in Vancouver on the topic of: ‘Imagining Colonial Futures: Children and the Politics of Belonging in the British Colonial World’. Christine Whyte also participated in this panel, which highlighted the\u00a0the role of colonial children in imagining imperial futures. The panel\u00a0placed\u00a0childhood experiences, and adult expectations, at the heart of British imperial\u00a0history, and reflected upon the importance of histories of childhood in the politics of\u00a0imperial belonging. As such it explored children\u2019s relationship with empire, with race\u00a0and difference, and with the idea and practice of the colonial lives. Christine and Emily were joined by Onni Gust (Nottingham) and local talent Laura Ishiguro (UBC) and the papers, which spanned from the remote plains\u00a0of colonial British Columbia to the crowded streets of 19th-century Bombay, sparked a lively debate about the relationships between colonial settings, ideas about the future and the role of children.<\/p>\n

PANEL: Imagining Colonial Futures: Children and the Politics of Belonging in the British Colonial World. <\/strong><\/p>\n

SHCY\u00a0Eighth Biennial Conference Program University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Wednesday, June 24 \u2013 Friday, June 26, 2015<\/p>\n