Resources in Anti-Colonial Thought (1)

Autumn 2012

Frantz Fanon photo by désinteret on Flickr

Research seminar organised in collaboration with the Institute of English Studies at the University of London.

Venue: Senate House. Seminars are on Thursdays from 17.30 -19.00
Venue map for Senate House

About the series: This is the first of a two-part series of seminars on anti-colonial thinkers whose work has to date been relatively neglected in Postcolonial Literary Studies. You can download the programme in PDF format.

Seminar Schedule

Thursday 15 November 2012
Senate House Room 234

David Murphy
‘Race, communism and anti-colonial politics in 1920s Paris: the case of Lamine Senghor’

David Murphy is Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Stirling. He is the author of two monographs, Sembene: Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction (2000), and (with Patrick Williams) Postcolonial African Cinema: Ten Directors (2007), and he is currently completing a third on Senegalese anti-colonial militant Lamine Senghor. He has co-edited several collections of essays: with Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Thresholds of Otherness (2002), with Charles Forsdick, Francophone Postcolonial Studies (2003) and Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World (2009), and with Michelle Keown and James Procter, Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas (2009).

Thursday 29 November 2012
Senate House Room 234

Martin Evans
‘Islamist perspectives on the Algerian anti-colonial struggle: the case of Abdelatif Soltani’

Martin Evans is Professor in Contemporary European History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of several monographs: The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War 1954-62 (1997), (with Emmanuel Godin) France 1815-2003 (2004), (with John Phillips) Algeria - Anger of the Dispossessed (2007), and Algeria: France’s Undeclared War (2012). He has edited/ co-edited several collections of essays: with Ken Lunn, War and Memory in the Twentieth Century (1997), with Martin Alexander and J. F. V. Keiger, The French Army and the Algerian War: Images, Experiences, Testimonies (2002), and Culture and Empire: The French Experience (2004).

Thursday 6 December 2012
Senate House Room 234

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
‘V. Y. Mudimbe and Decolonisation’

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture is Associate Professor and Reader in French Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of two monographs, Le Congo belge et son récit à la veille des indépendances. Sous l’empire du royaume (2003) and La Mesure de l’autre. Afrique subsaharienne et roman ethnographique de Belgique et de France (1918-1940) (2007), and is completing a third, VY  Mudimbe’s Undisciplined Africanism: an Intellectual Journey. He has co-edited several collections of essays: the section on Belgium in A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires (2008), with Nathalie Aubert and Patrick McGuinness, La Belgique entre deux siècles: laboratoire de la modernité, 1880-1914 (2007), and with Nathalie Aubert and Patrick McGuinness, From Art Nouveau to Surrealism. Belgian Modernity in the Making (2007).

For any queries regarding the Autumn 2012 seminar series, contact the organisers David Johnson (D.W.Johnson@open.ac.uk) or Alex Tickell (A.Tickell@open.ac.uk), Department of English, The Open University.