Provisional Programme (subject to change)
Alien Nations:
Identities and Empires in Global History
14-15 March 2014
Scarman, University of Warwick
Day 1: 14 March
Registration
09.00-10.15
Welcome and introductions
10.15-10.30
Panel 1
10.30-12.30
Loyalty and Identity in the Long 19th Century
David Anderson (University of Warwick)
Loyalist Delhi 1857?
William Bramwell (University of Warwick)
Title t.bc.
Alexander Morrison (Nazarbayev University)
Imperial and Religious Loyalties on the Syr-Darya Line, 1847-1865
Lunch
12.30-1.30
Panel 2
1.30-3.30
Settler Colonialism
Jennifer Sessions (University of Iowa)
Spoilator or Arabophile? An Algerian Settler between Metrople and Colony
Will Jackson (University of Leeds)
Poor Whites, Failed Whites, Nativised Whites: Deviance and Distress in the British World
Donald MacRaild (University of Ulster)
Class and Ethnic Conflict in the English Immigrant Experiences of 19th Century America
Refreshments
3.30-4.00
Panel 3
4.00-6.00
Contested Identities and World War II
Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford)
Title t.b.c
Christian Hess (Sophia University, Tokyo)
Title t.b.c.
Dinner
7.30
Day 2: 15 March
Panel 4
10.00-12.45
Conflict and Identity
Isa Blumi (Georgia State University)
Transitional Migrants: The Global Ottoman Refugee and Colonial Terror
Natalia Sobrevilla-Perea (University of Kent)
Fighting for the ‘Fatherland’ in the Andes 1808-1815
Robert Fletcher (University of Exeter)
Title t.b.c.
Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)
Empire, Loyalism and Global Lives
Lunch
12.45-2.00
Panel 5
2.00-4.00
Contested Decolonisations
Lori Watt (Washington University in St Louis)
Inclusions and Exclusions at the End of the Japanese Empire
Natasha Pairadeau (University of Cambridge)
Indian Experiences of the End of French rule in Indochina, or how Colonial Intermediaries Entered a World of Nation States (1940-1954)
Gerard McCann (University of York)
Do Magazines Culture?: Rajat Neogy, Transition Magazine and the Future in Decolonizing East Africa, 1961-68
Conclusion
4.30