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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Rethinking the Modern: Colonialism, Empire, and
Slavery, Univ. of Warwick, 11-12 July 2011
> H-ASIA
> February 8, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Rethinking the Modern: Colonialism, Empire, and Slavery
> University of Warwick, 11-12 July 2011
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Rethinking the Modern: Colonialism, Empire, and Slavery
>
> Location: United Kingdom
> Conference Date: 2011-07-11
> Date Submitted: 2011-02-07
> Announcement ID: 182829
>
> An international conference organised by the British Sociological
> Association's Theory Study Group and the ESRC-funded Network, Rethinking
> the Global: Connected Histories and Connected Sociologies
> 11-12 July, 2011, Birmingham Midland Institute
>
> http://bsatheory.org.uk/category/rethinking-the-modern/
>
> **The deadline for submission of abstracts is 25th February 2011**
>
> Keynote Speakers:
> Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor of Sociology,
> University of Maryland
>
> Priyamvada Gopal, Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of
> Cambridge
>
> Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History,
> UCL
>
> Walter Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature, Duke
> University
>
> Nikhil Pal Singh, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis,
> History Department, NYU
>
> In recent times, a number of academics and commentators have sought to
> offer a revisionist history of colonialism. This history presents
> colonialism as either something that was not as bad as some others make
> out, something that actually made the modern world and so was essentially
> a good thing from which the current search for a new global order should
> have much to learn; or as something to be understood simply in terms of
> networks of circulation and distribution. The sense of colonialism as a
> wretched episode of human history that continues to distort the life
> chances of those unfortunate enough to live under its legacies is slowly
> being eroded. Similar attempted revisions seek to alter public
> understandings of modern transatlantic slavery and its continuing
> legacies. We believe that the historical processes of imperialism,
> colonialism and slavery shaped, and continue to shape, our common world in
> ways which have been and continue to be problematic. This conference seeks
> to confront head-on these new revisionist histories and provide the space
> for a more adequate understanding of these processes and their legacies as
> they continue into today.
>
> There will be 12 key streams in the conference and abstracts should be
> submitted under these streams:
>
> 1. Imperial Enlightenment and Critical Thought
> 2. The Place of Minorities in Modernity and Coloniality
> 3. Decolonial Thought and Other Philosophies
> 4. Migration and Empire: Voluntary and Forced
> 5. Is Global History / Sociology Possible?
> 6. Reassessing Anti-Colonial and Liberation Movements
> 7. Coloniality / Modernity
> 8. Recovering Forgotten Histories
> 9. Slavery and its Legacies
> 10. Colonial Desires and Eastern Empires
> 11. From Empire to Neo-Imperialism
> 12. The Colonial Context of the European Integration Project, Past and
> Present
>
>
> Special Events: * Workshop on the Legacies of British Slave-ownership
> project led by Catherine Hall * A screening of Unravelling, a film from
> the Noise of the Past project led by Nirmal Puwar * Theologian and public
> intellectual Robert Beckford will be holding a film screening and
> discussion on his documentary film 'The Empire Pays Back'.
>
> For more information on the conference, details on the streams, and
> contact details for stream co-ordinators see:
> http://bsatheory.org.uk/category/rethinking-the-modern/
>
> The deadline for submission of abstracts is 25th February 2011 See website
> for abstract submission details.
>
> Please circulate this email and display the attached call for papers.
>
> Conference Team: Gurminder K Bhambra, Ipek Demir, Peo Hansen, Gary
> Hazeldine, Stefan Jonsson, Vicky Margree, Lucy Mayblin, Sren Rud, Robbie
> Shilliam, Rolando Vazquez, Ozan Zeybek
>
> For general queries, email Gurminder K Bhambra
> (g.k.bhambra@warwick.ac.uk)or Lucy Mayblin (l.mayblin@warwick.ac.uk).
> Email: l.mayblin@warwick.ac.uk
> Visit the website at
> http://bsatheory.org.uk/category/rethinking-the-modern/
>
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