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Tuesday, July 5
N.B. All conference sessions take place at the Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Room LJ 119.
9:00- 10:00am
Optional: Private tour of The Value of Money at The National Museum of American History led by Ellen Feingold
1:00-1:10pm
Welcome from the Kluge Center, Jason Steinhauer
1:10-1:20pm
Welcome from the American Historical Association, Dana Schaffer
1:20- 1:45pm
Opening Remarks, Wm. Roger Louis
2:00-3:15pm
Resources, Technology, and Economics in the Era of Decolonization
Chair: Guiliano Garavini, University of Padua
Building an Oil Empire: U.S. Oil Companies and the Reshaping of Labor Relations in Libya, 1951-1981
Elisabetta Bini, University of Trieste
If all else fails, ask America: Facing Colonial Exclusion in Nazareth
Leena Dallasheh, Humboldt State University
Making the Hydro-Nation: Sovereignty and regionalism in India, 1950s-1960s
Daniel Haines, University of Bristol
Shifting Sudan: an Economic Region Between Interwar Imperialism and the Age of Development
Alden Young, Drexel University
3:30- 4:45pm
Empire at War
Chair: Andres Rodriguez, University of Sydney
Sentencing and executing in the Metropolis during Decolonisation: The Case Study of “Fort Montluc”
Marc André, Associated researcher of the Larhra (Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes / Historical research laboratory of Rhone-Alpes)
Doing justice or guarding national unity: Sentencing female ‘traitors’ in times of transition
Eveline Buchheim, NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies
Bad Blood in the Post-War Netherlands: Indonesian Decolonization as Interpersonal Conflict
Jennifer L. Foray, Purdue University
At the Crossroads of Empire: Neutral Macau during the Second World War
Felicia Yap, London School of Economics, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Center
Wednesday, July 6
9:00-10:30
Drawing Borders, Building Communities
Chair: Aiyaz Husain, U.S. Department of State
Portuguese Empire’s Migrants of Decolonization settled in Brazil (1974-1977)
Isabel de Souza Lima Junqueira Barreto, Fluminense Federal University
Who wants an East African Federation?
Michael Collins, University College London
The Integration of African Chiefdoms into the Colonial Administration: Institutional Change or Institutional Persistence?Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics
Decolonizing borders in South Asia
Elisabeth Leake, Royal Holloway, University of London
“Federations I have known…”
Jason Parker, Texas A&M University
Eurafrique. Decolonization by Participation
Anne-Isabelle Richard, Leiden University
10:45-12:15
Roundtable: Teaching the End of Empire
Chair: Annalisa Urbano, Universitaet Bayreuth
Stephen Jackson, University of Sioux Falls
Mairi MacDonald, University of Toronto
Jessica Pearson-Patel, University of Oklahoma
Kate Stevens, University of Otago
Akhila Yechury, University of St. Andrews
12:15- 1:30 Lunch
1:45-3:15
Languages of Independence, Histories of Decolonization
Chair: Erik Linstrum, University of Virginia
Two Corollaries to the Monroe Doctrine: Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperial Imperialism
Charlie Laderman, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
Taming Babel: Language, colonialism and legacies in British Malaya
Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge
Decolonizing words. A Contribution to the History of French Empire’s decline
Élodie Salmon, Paris-Sorbonne University
Decolonization and the Writing of Indian History
Rajagopal Vakulabharanam, University of Hyderabad
3:30-5:00
Global Connections in a Decolonizing World
Chair: Elizabeth Buettner, University of Amsterdam
The Mutual Influence of India and Palestine, 1933-1939
Lucy Chester, University of Colorado Boulder
Developing control: development policies and violent trajectories of late colonialism in Portuguese Africa (1945-1975)
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, University of Coimbra
Orientalism at Bay: Lebanon, the United States, and Edward Said’s Postcolonial Moment
Maurice Jr. Labelle, University of Saskatchewan
“They are all Lumumbas”: Anti-colonial Solidarities and Media Representations in the United Arab Republic During the Congo Crisis, 1960-1961
Zoe LeBlanc, Vanderbilt University
Afro-Asian Networks in the Early Cold War: A Collaborative Research Network
Su Lin Lewis, University of Bristol
Nehruvian ideals; African realities: Apa Pant and disciplined decolonization in East Africa, 1948-1954
Gerard McCann, University of York
Thursday, July 7
9:00-10:30
Between Empire and Independence
Chair: Ellen Feingold, Smithsonian Institution and Georgetown University
In the Aftermath of Power Transfer: Anti-French Sentiments and the Rhetoric of “Unfinished” Decolonization in Postcolonial Ivory Coast
Abou B. Bamba, Gettysburg College
To Mecca by Land or by Air: Decolonizing the Hajj in Nigeria, 1955-1963
Matthew M. Heaton, Virginia Tech
Afterlife of Empire: The Life History and Colonial/Postcolonial Careering of Arthur Hugh Bunting
Joseph M. Hodge, West Virginia University
Leaving New China: decolonisation and the departure of foreigners from Communist Shanghai, 1949-1966
Jon Howlett, University of York
The Specter of Secession: Decolonization and the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of India
Srijan Sandip Mandal, University of Hyderabad
10:45-12:15
Roundtable: Humanitarianism and Development
Chair: Juan Romero, Western Kentucky University
John Aerni-Flessner, Michigan State University
Emily Baughan, University of Bristol
Charlotte Lydia Riley, University of Southampton
Kara Moskowitz, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Tehila Sasson, Institute of Historical Research
12:15- 1:30 Lunch
1:45-3:15
Decolonizing Global Governance: International Organizations and the End of Empire
Chair: Laura Robson, Portland State University
Medicine and Public Health in North Africa: State-building and International Aid, 1956-1975
Jennifer Johnson, Brown University
Molding the Intercultural Mind: Peace Corps Training in Hawai’i
Sarah Miller-Davenport, University of Sheffield
The internationalization of social policies and late colonialism: the Portuguese empire and the International Labour Organization (1944-1963)
José Pedro Pinto Monteiro, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
The Turn to Sanctions by the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Simon Murray Stevens, European University Institute
“World Organization Intoxication”: The Arab League at the San Francisco Conference, 1945
Stefanie Wichhart, Niagara University
3:30-5:00
Rethinking the End of Empire: New Approaches to the Study of Decolonization
Chair: Emma Hunter, University of Edinburgh
Decolonization and the History of Emotions: a Case Study from British Africa
Ellen Boucher, Amherst College
Two Commonwealths? Re-thinking the Commonwealth of Nations: 1921-1975
Andrew Richard Dilley, University of Aberdeen
Rehabilitating the Home: Women’s Self-Help at the End of Empire
Elizabeth Prevost, Grinnell College
Apartheid’s Playground: decolonization and the pleasures of holding ground
Caio Simões de Araújo, Graduate Institute, Geneva
The unfinished decolonisations of settler colonialism
Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University
7:00-9:00
Closing Reception at the Museum of Women in the Arts