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The Global Decolonization Workshop (GDW) is an ongoing initiative of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Department of History, New York University. GDW seeks to forge a global forum for knowledge exchange in the interdisciplinary field of decolonization studies. This July 2017 meeting of the GDW in Paris seeks to explore the connections among and concepts animating historical waves of decolonization around the world, from the 18th century to the present.
Agenda
THURSDAY, 6 JULY
10:00 am Welcome: Philip Murphy & Mark Thurner
PART 1. FIRST AND SECOND WAVE REVERBERATIONS
10:30 Noticias secretas: The Conceptual Challenge for Global History of Latin American Independence (Mark Thurner)
11:00 From South America to Europe: Nineteenth-Century Waves of Decolonization (Federica Morelli)
11:30 A Different Meridian: Post-Independence ‘Colonization’ in Mexico and Brazil (José Juan Pérez Meléndez)
12:00 Discussion, led by Barbara Weinstein
13:00 LUNCH
PART 2: THIRD AND FOURTH WAVE RESONANCES
14:00 Decolonization as an Imperial policy: the British Commonwealth Experience (Virginie Roiron)
14:30 Extended Families or Bodily Decomposition? Biological Metaphors in the Age of European Decolonization (Liz Buettner)
15:00 Lumumba's speech as decolonial counterpoint in Pitz’s graphic novel Les Jardins du Congo (Véronique Bragard)
15:30 Discussion, led by Philip Murphy
16:30 COFFEE
17:00 KEYNOTE by Todd Shepard
19:00 DINNER (Madeleine 7, 7 boulevard de la Madeleine, 75001 Paris 1er)
FRIDAY, 7 JULY
PART II: THIRD AND FOURTH WAVE FUTURES
10:00 The League of Nations, the United Nations and the Concept of ‘Decolonization’ (Asahiko Hanzawa)
10:30 Malcolm X and the Pedagogy of Global Decolonization (Arun Rasiah)
11:00 The Concept of ‘Responsibility for Colonialism’: A New Agenda for Historians of Decolonization (Ichiro Maekawa)
11:30 Discussion, led by Todd Shepard
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 PLENARY ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Led by Andrew Hussey, Philip Murphy, Todd Shepard, Mark Thurner, and Barbara Weinstein
16:00 RECEPTION