Global Empire and Resistance Mini-conference

November 20th, 2021

12:30pm-5:30pm GMT (7:30am-12:30pm EST)

Conference registration is free.

A printable version of the program is available here.

Preliminary Program

Welcome remarks

12:30am GMT

Empire and identity formation 

12:35pm-1:25pm GMT

“Independence, Resistance and the Postcolonial Invention of Self” - Dzifa Peters, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Gender, Identity and Conflict: Representation of Indigenous Women in Guatemalan Cinema - Trisha Suman, Jamia Milia Islamia University

“Being a Problem: The Internalization of Racialized Colonial Difference in Kabul, Afghanistan” - Syeda Masood, Brown University

Systems of resistance, past and present

1:30pm-2:20pm GMT

Reconfiguring Colonial Hierarchies: Examining the “European v. Native Wrestling” debate in the late 19th century - Ajay Jacob Thomas, University of Delhi

An Analysis of the Impact of the Almajiri Migration System on Nigeria’s Development - Ezeugwu Lilien Chidera,  Obafemi Awolowo University

What now for the Zimbabwean student demonstrator? Online activism and its challenges for university students in a covid-19 lockdown - Baldwin Hove, University of The Free State in the Republic of South Africa

Undermining repression

2:25pm-3:15pm GMT

Black Heroism in the Atlantic World: Three-Fingered Jack and Networks of

Enslaved Resistance in the Age of Slavery - Lewis Elliot, University of Oklahoma

Late Colonial Rhetoric in French Indochina: Popular Literature, Anthropological Science, and the Discourse of Political Justification - Jaden Yun, Independent Scholar

Ethnic Hegemony and Executive Exclusion: Majoritarian Domination of Presidency in Kenya - Sakwa Buliba, Durham University

NETWORKING

3:30pm-4:20pm GMT

Meet the authors and conference organizers for an open Q&A on the conference and future collaboration opportunities

Selections from Marielle: The Musical

Q&A with writer/director Jenna Chrisphonte

4:30pm-5:20pm

Closing remarks

5:25-5:30pm