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Subject: Re: Colonisers Conference
A one-day interdisciplinary conference at the University of Warwick
Rethinking the Colonisers
British Colonial Elites in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
25th MAY 2002
For a booking form please go to:
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/HRC/conferences.html#BCE
Outline:
The conference will focus on British colonial elites: the administrators,
policy-makers, missionaries, settlers, and other groups and individuals,
whose actions and ideas contributed to the shaping of the colonial past.
Recent interest in the complexity of relations between colonisers and the
colonised has helped to call previous assumptions about both groups into
question. The result of this has been that the colonisers, who sought to
dominate and control vast empires and populations, are no longer seen as
having been a homogenous or unified group. Recent work suggests that
colonial regimes and discourses were, in fact, replete with competing
agendas and strategies and were characterised by fissure, doubt and failure
as well as by single-minded self-confidence and success.
The conference will consider British colonising elites of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries from these perspectives and will include papers on
areas of British colonisation in the Caribbean, South Africa, West Africa,
Australasia and India.
An international cast of speakers, with backgrounds in cultural studies,
history, geography, gender studies, international studies and literature,
will address the conference.
Sessions:
There will be a keynote address followed by three sessions:
1. Rethinking Colonial Administration and Administrators
2. The Caribbean
3. Conflicting Colonialist Discourses and Agendas
The conference will conclude with a general discussion of the main themes,
issues and problems emerging from the day.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Catherine Hall, University College, London
Speakers:
Dr Philip Howell, University of Cambridge, UK
David Lambert, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Leigh Dale, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Nemata Blyden, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Dr Cecily Jones, University of Warwick, UK
Dr Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Anna Johnston, University of Tasmania, Australia
Professor Ian Talbot, Coventry University, UK
Dr Alan Lester , University of Sussex, UK
Contact/registration details:
For more information, or for a booking form, please contact Sue Dibben,
Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
Tel: + 44 (0) 24 7652 3401
E-mail: [log in to unmask] , or visit: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/HRC
Alternatively, contact Christer Petley (organiser), e-mail:
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Full Conference Programme:
9.00 - 10.00: Registration
10.00 - 10.45: Keynote Address
Professor Catherine Hall: University College, London
The Making of the Coloniser
10.45 - 11.00: Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30: Session 1: Rethinking Colonial Administration and
Administrators
Dr Philip Howell & David Lambert: Dept of Geography, Cambridge
John Pope-Hennessy and the Problem of 'Slavery' in Late Nineteenth-Century
Barbados and Hong Kong.
Dr Leigh Dale: University of Queensland, Australia
The intersection of the representation and self-representations of colonial
administrators.
Dr Nemata Blyden: George Washington University
Black West Indians in British colonial administration - a different kind of
colonizer?
12.30 - 1.30: Lunch
1.30 - 2.30: Session 2: The Caribbean
Dr Cecily Jones: Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, Warwick
Rethinking White Colonial Womanhood.
Dr Natalie Zacek: Dept of History, Manchester
Dangerous Tenants: Politics, Political Conflict and the Rights of Englishmen
in the Eighteenth-Century English West Indies.
2.30 - 2.45: Coffee
2.45 - 4.15: Session 3: Conflicting Colonialist Discourses and Agendas
Dr Anna Johnston: University of Tasmania, Australia
Missionary Zeal: LMS Missionaries in Colonial Cultures.
Professor Ian Talbot: School of International Studies and Law, Coventry
The Punjab Under Colonialism: Order and Transformation in
Late-Nineteenth-Century India.
Alan Lester: School of Cultural and Community Studies, Sussex
Settler Capitalism: A Trans-imperial Discourse.
4.15 - 5.00: Final Discussion
5.00: End of Conference
Christer Petley
82 Brookfield Road
Churchdown
Gloucester
GL3 2PD
England
01452 855544
0773 6456 065
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