Yale International History Workshop - Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne

Event time: 
Friday, April 26, 2019 - 9:30am to 6:00pm
Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 9:30am to 3:00pm
Location: 
10 Sachem Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Yale International History Workshop: “Connected Histrories: Decolonization & 20th Century”

Keynote Address: Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne

Emotional Topographies of Decolonization

Friday, April 26

Welcome & Introduction: 9:15am-9:30am

Panel I: 9:30am-11:00am

Connected Histories: Non-national Solidarities

Chair: Marcela Echeverri, Associate Professor of History, Yale University  
Justin Reynolds (Harvard University): “Post-Colonial Protestantism and the Remaking of “Christian Society”: Decolonization and the World Council of Churches in the 1950s and 1960s”
Rachel Applebaum (Tufts University): “Ambassadors of the Language of Lenin: Soviet Teachers of Russian in Africa and Asia, 1950s–1970s”
Elizabeth A. Foster (Tufts University): “Decolonizing Faith: The End of Empire in Africa and the Transformation of the Church”
Josh Mentanko (PhD candidate, Yale University): “Mexico and the Third World: Internal Colonialism, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Limits of Economic Decolonization in the 1970s”

Panel II: 11:15am-12:45pm

Internationalism in Development: Technology, Economics, and the New World Order

Chair: David Engerman, Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History, Yale University
Nicholas Ferns (Monash University): “The 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development and the Decolonisation of Papua New Guinea”
Haris A. Durrani (JD candidate, Columbia Law School; PhD candidate, Princeton University): “Maniobras Piratas: Law, Empire, and Humanity in the ‘Technological Partition’”
James Lin (University of Washington): “In the Vanguard: Taiwanese Agricultural Development in Vietnam and Africa, 1959-1971”
Jessica Pearson (Macalester College): “Flying to the End of Empire? French Colonial Air Travel in the Era of Decolonization”

Panel III: 2:00pm-3:45pm

From Auschwitz to Algeria: Concentration Camps and the Challenge of Connected Histories

Chair: Carolyn J. Dean, Charles J. Stille Professor of History & French, Yale University
Participants: Emma Kuby (Northern Illinois University), Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale University), Samuel Moyn (Yale University)

Keynote 4:00pm-6:00pm

Lecture by Professor Barbara Keys, “Emotional Topographies of Decolonization”

Saturday, April 27

Panel IV: 9am-10:30am

Rethinking Liberation     

Chair: Zaib un Nisa Aziz, PhD Candidate, Yale University
Andrew Ivaska (Concordia University): “Liberation Itineraries: Dar es Salaam, Political Exile, and the Making of the 1960s”
Lucy Chester (University of Colorado Boulder): “Networks of Decolonization: Imperial Webs, Anti-Colonial Connections and the In Between”
Jessica Namakkal (Duke University): “Unsettling Utopia: Decolonization in 20th Century French India” 
Cindy Ewing (University of Toronto): “Writing the Rules of Liberation: Arab-Asian Solidarities and the Questions of Indonesia and Somalia at the United Nations”

Plenary Session: 10:45am-12pm

Connected Histories of Violence and the Making of the Our Times

Chair: Rohit De, Associate Professor of History, Yale University
Robert Karl (Princeton University), Lien-Hang Nguyen (Columbia University), Anupama Rao (Barnard College), Meredith Terretta (University of Ottawa)

Panel V:  1:00pm-2:30pm

The New Minority Question: Violence, Internationalism and the Problem of Indigenous Rights

Chair: Charlotte Kiechel, PhD Candidate, Yale University
Lydia Walker (Dartmouth College): “Addressing the Question of ‘Minority’ Nationalisms in a Decolonizing World:  The Nagaland Peace Mission, 1964-1966”
Laura Robson (Portland State University): “The United Nations and the Settler Colonial State: Decolonization, Internationalism, and the Question of Indigenous Sovereignty”
Joshua Cole (University of Michigan): “The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria”