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From: Peter Hoffenberg <[log in to unmask]>
Decolonization Workshop
Institute of Commonwealth Studies in conjunction with King’s College, London
The Senate Room, Senate House, London
Friday 16 November 2012
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11.00-11.30 Registration, tea/coffee
11.30-1.00 Session One
Chair: Professor David Killingray
Professor Antoine Capet (University of Rouen) ‘Decolonisation à la
Churchill: Winston Churchill's idealisation of Lawrence's action in the
post-war Middle East in 'Lawrence of Arabia’ (1932)
Dr Ruth Craggs (University of Hull), ‘Commonwealth conferences as
performance’
Julian Francis (ICwS) ‘A Conflict of Meaning: the Clash of Ideals, Politics
and Identity in Rhodesia.’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session Two:
Chair: Dr Sarah Stockwell
Bill Kirkman (University of Cambridge) ‘Africa’s rapid move towards
independence – a view from the stalls’.
Dr Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon/King’s
College London), ‘Developing Resistance: The late colonial state in the
Portuguese Empire, 1945-1975’
Bérénice Guyot-Réchard (University of Cambridge), ‘Decentring 1947 in South
Asian Studies: World War II and the reconfiguration of India’s
north-eastern frontier’
3.30-4.00 Tea/coffee
4.00-5.30 Session Three:
Chair: Prof Philip Murphy
Usha Iyer (University of Central Lancashire) ‘Cricket and Decolonisation
1947-1965: A Study in Transnational History?’
William Clarance (ICwS) ‘Minorities under pressure in Uganda and Sri Lanka:
the downside of decolonization’
Dr Daniel McAvoy (UEA) ‘Decolonization and Police-building in Solomon
Islands’
5.30-7.00 Book launch
Harshan Kumarasingham, A Political Legacy of the British Empire: Power and
the Westminster System in Post-Colonial India and Sri-Lanka (London, I B
Tauris, 2012)
Panel: Dr Harshan Kumarasingham (University of Potsdam); Professor Vernon
Bogdanor (King’s College, London); Professor Philip Murphy (ICwS)
7.00 Reception
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