16th Annual Conference (online) Programme
(All times are BST)
Thursday 19 May – Friday 20 May 2022
Decolonising Europe: The Visible and the Invisible
Day 1: Thursday 19 May
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10:30-11:00 - Welcome & Opening: Frankie Morgan and Thomas Wood
11:00-12:00 - Panel A - Chair: Thomas Wood
- Emma Bridger (University of Birmingham) - The Legacy Continues: Decolonising a Christian Mission Agency
- Amadeo Szpiga (International Institute for the Sociology of Law/University of the Basque Country) - The (Im)Possibility of Decolonising Law: A Genealogy of Law as a Colonial Dispositif And Counter-Hegemonic Potentialities
12:00-13:30 - Lunch break
13:30-15:00 - Panel B - Chair: Dr Thomas Brodie
- Daphné Budasz (European University Institute) - Postcolonial Italy: Reflexion on the Mapping of Colonial Heritage
- Florian Helfer (University of Bonn) - Colonial Wars in Postcolonial Memory: The Herero and Nama Genocide (1904–1908) and the Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1957) in the German and British Press (1989–2019)
- Doron Eldar (Uppsala University) - Narrating Slavery in the Big House called Europe
15:00-15:30 - (Bring your own) coffee and tea break
15:30-16:30 - Plenary session: Dr Berny Sèbe – Decolonising Europe? Researching and Understanding Popular Responses to the End of Empire. Chair: Dr Thomas Brodie
16:30 - End of Day 1
Day 2: Friday 20 May
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10:00-12:00 - Panel C: Decolonising Europe in African Literatures and Politics - Chair: Marie Allègre
- Amina Zarzi (University of Birmingham) - Decolonising or Perpetuating the European Perception of the Sahara Desert as a Terrae Incognita in African Novels?
- Ninon Vessier (Emory University) - Decolonization and Ecological resistance: Reading Tchicaya U Tam’si
- Dooshima Lilian DUGGUH (University of Birmingham) - Decolonising European Presence in African Politics: Understanding Youth Uprising in Francophone Africa
- Sourour SALHI (University of Birmingham) - The Reconciliation with the Past: Appeasing the Future of Postcolonial Nations in Bleu Blanc Vert and Americanah
12:00-13:30 - Lunch break
13:30-14:30 - Panel D - Chair: Imran Hashmi
- Edward Marsden (University of Birmingham) - Hacking the Shadow Archives
- Katie Unnithan (University of Birmingham) - An Intersectional Evaluation of Rural Racism: How do white people in rural Britain conceptualise race and racism?
14:30-15:00 - (Bring your own) coffee and tea break
15:00-16:00 Keynote: Professor Sunny Singh – Title TBC - Chair: Frankie Morgan
16:00-16:15 - Closing: Frankie Morgan and Thomas Wood
End of the Conference
Who is the Graduate Centre for Europe?
The University of Birmingham Graduate Centre for Europe (GCfE), launched in 2005, is a major interdisciplinary initiative involving students and staff from three Colleges in the University. The GCfE has been established to: enable exchanges of ideas on Europe among graduate students, bring together expertise that is currently spread across a wide range of academic disciplines, facilitate collaborative research activities and promote the acquisition of research skills. The GCfE is directed by a steering committee of postgraduates, who represent a range of disciplines. We engage the wider postgraduate community in our work through a range of activities. These include seminars, workshops, and the annual conference.
How can you get involved?
If you would like to get involved with the GCfE or be added to our mailing list, please email: gcfe@contacts.bham.ac.uk or to keep up to date with our events and activities follow us on Twitter (@gcfe_bham) or Facebook (@graduatecentreforeurope).