Events
Museums, Empire and Decolonial Praxis workshop
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 13:00 to 17:00
Arden University, Berlin
Audre Lorde famously said, “…the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Can we imagine a museum approach that challenges the idea of the museum as the ultimate authority and representation of human existence? We invite papers from contributors to the edited volume, but also other scholars from history, art history, museum practice, art, and activism, to discuss decolonial museum praxis both from historical and contemporary perspective.
Workshop: ‘Slavery, the Industrial Revolution, and Public History’
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 11:00 to 15:30
Online
The relationship between slavery and the Industrial Revolution has long been a source of historical debate. Since the publication of Eric Williams’s landmark study Capitalism and Slavery (1944), scholars have argued over the connection between the two. More recently, Pat Hudson and Maxine Berg published Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution (2023). This workshop explores some of the latest research into slavery and the Industrial Revolution. It considers how these interwoven histories have been interpreted within heritage and museum sites. It also looks at how this material has translated into new approaches to teaching in the classroom. This workshop is aimed at historians, students, teachers, heritage professionals, and anyone with a general interest in the subject.
Empireworld: 'In Conversation with Sathnam Sangera'
Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online via MS Teams
As part of the cross-faculty seminar series in collaboration with the Black and Ethnic Minority Staff Network and the Centre for Empire and Postcolonial Studies, we invite you to join us as we host best-selling author and journalist Sathnam Sangera to discuss his latest book Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe (Penguin, 2024).
Empire and Decolonisation workshop
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 - 09:00 to 17:00
Online
Co-organised by The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group
2020-2021 Online Seminar Series
Friday, May 7, 2021 - 08:00 to 16:00
Online
Dr. Mishka Sinha (St. John’s College, Oxford), St. John’s and the Colonial Past
2020-2021 Online Seminar Series -Prof. Santanu Das (All Souls, Oxford), India, Empire and First World War Culture: Writings, Images and Songs
Monday, December 14, 2020 - 08:00 to 16:00
Online
Co-organised by The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, War and Peace in the Twentieth Century Research Group, and the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group.
Empire and Decolonisation workshop Day 2
Friday, July 10, 2020 - 08:00 to 12:00
Online
Co-organised by The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group.
Empire and Decolonisation workshop Day 1
Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 08:00 to 12:15
Online
Co-organised by The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and the Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group
Researching Empire in 2019: representations, impacts, and legacies
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 08:00
Meeting Room 12, Wilson A, The Open University, Milton Keynes
Over the last three decades, writing and researching Empire has experienced a renaissance and is more stimulating and relevant than ever. As a consequence, public discourse around the representation, impact, and legacies of Empire has turned progressively febrile
Migration in colonial Africa and Asia: historical perspectives, connections and comparisons
Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - 00:00
Seminar Room 6, The Library, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
Migration is one of the foundational pillars of the story of humanity. The study of migration has been energised in recent decades by new sources and frameworks such as transnational history and diaspora studies.
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