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Dear Colleague
Please find below details of our 2004-05 Seminar
Series
"Violences Remembered":
Open Doors Public Seminar Series 2004 – 05
Violences Remembered
Colonial and postcolonial conflicts in the twentieth
century
Seminars take place at 4pm, at the British Empire &
Commonwealth Museum
2004
20 October
Terence Ranger, St-Antony’s, Oxford: Urban
violence and colonial
experience: Bulawayo, Rhodesia in the twentieth
century.
03 November
Peter Carey, Trinity, Oxford: Third World Colonialism?
Indonesian
intervention in East Timor.
17 November
Dibyesh Anand, Bath: Terror and/of Empire: the
colonial experience in
the 20th century.
15 December
Emma Tarlo, Ferguson Centre/OU: Mrs. Gandhi’s
Emergency remembered:
tales of sterilisation, displacement and betrayal from
India’s urban
poor in the 1970s.
2005
12 January
Harro Maat: Conflicting Institutions: The Sugarcane
Industry and Rice
Improvement in Colonial Indonesia, ca. 1920s
26 January
Valerie Johnson, Cambridge: Imperial
‘transfer’: the case of the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Iran during the first
half of the 20th
century.
09 February
Veronique Dimier, Universite Libre de Bruxelles:
French and British
colonial administrations: comparisons revisited.
23 February
Elizabeth Wrangham, Surrey Roehampton: Civil unrest in
a Colony at war.
The Gold Coast in World War I.
09 March
Joya Chatterji, LSE: Recovering Partition: Lessons
from Bengal, 1947.
13 April
Emma Reisz, Jesus, Cambridge: Knowledge and Power in
the Rubber
industries of Malaya, Ceylon, and Singapore in the
early 20th century.
27 April
Raphaelle Branche, Institute of Political Studies,
Paris: Colonial
violences: The French Army and torture during the
Algerian War.
11 May
Martin Thomas, Exeter: Constructions of French
decolonisation, 1944-54.
25 May
Martin Evans, Portsmouth University: The Colonial past
in contemporary
Algeria.
Tickets are £3.50 for each seminar
Special Offer: buy a “sample pass” of 6
seminars for £15.00 / £10.00
concessions (seminars to be chosen in advance).
Tickets available from the British Empire &
Commonwealth Museum, Clock
Tower Yard, Bristol BS1 6QH. 0117 925 4980.
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Seminars are jointly organised by The Ferguson Centre
for African and
Asian Studies at The Open University and the British
Empire &
Commonwealth Museum
Best wishes
Sandip
Dr Sandip Hazareesingh
Lecturer, The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian
Studies
The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies
Faculty of Arts
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
For more details, please email Heather Scott at
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telephone: 01908-655244
fax: 01908-653973
Please look at our newly updated website:
http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/ferguson-centre
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