Empire's Metropolitan Afterlives

Overview

On 5 and 6 June 2019, Dr Michael Collins, UCL History, in association with UCL Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) and the UCL Festival of Culture 2019 will host a two-day workshop for 15 early career researchers (ECRs) working on the history of decolonisation and the post-imperial ‘afterlives’ of empire. Applications are now closed and the following participants have been offered a funded place on the workshop:

Kate Ambler (King’s College London), Emma-Lee Amponsah (University of Ghent), Csilla Ariese (Leiden-Amsterdam), Benjamin Bland (Royal Holloway, London), Ida Danewid, (SOAS, London) , Taous R. Dahmani (Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris), Satyadev Gunput (Birkbeck College, London) , Virgillo Hunter (University of East Anglia), Matthijs Kuipers (Utrecht), Edenz Maurice (Sciences Po, Paris), Grace Redhead (University College London), Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson (Leiden-Rotterdam), Elodie Salmon (Sorbonne, Paris), Dongkyung Shin (King’s College London), Theo Williams (King’s College London).

The workshop initiates the development of a European network of young scholars from the former colonial metropoles of London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, working on historical perspectives on migration history, race and identity, collective memory, national identity and the ‘post-imperial’ condition, exchanging perspectives on methodologies, concepts and archival sources across national boundaries.

The workshop will be conducted in English as a peer review exercise, requiring pre-circulated papers of up to 10,000 words that will be discussed in depth by the other participants as well as invited academic discussants, including:

Caroline Bressey (UCL), Elizabeth Buettner (Amsterdam), Michael Collins (UCL), Sarah Demart (Brussels), Véronqiue Dimier (Brussels), Chris Jeppesen (Cambridge), Soraya Laribi (Paris), Itay Lotem (Westminster), Kennetta Hammond Perry (Leicester De Montfort), Sarah Stockwell (KCL) and Stuart Ward (Copenhagen).

The workshop will be supplemented by a keynote lecture at 6-7pm on Wednesday 5 June by Professor Elizabeth Buettner (Amsterdam) - ‘The Colonial Past of Postcolonial EUrope’ - which will feature as part of the UCL Festival of Culture 2019. The lecture will be held in the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) ‘common ground’ lecture hall and is open to all academics and the public on a first-come basis. The lecture will be limited to 100 places and is in high demand so please register early: register by following this link.

*Banner Image -  Artist: Njideko Akunyili Crosby, Art installation: 'Obodo' (Country/City/Town/Ancestral Village), 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice. Photography by Bon Schoenholz. The project by Njideka Akunyili Crosby is generously supported by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

This project has been generously supported by UCL Global Engagement Office, UCL History and UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS).