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Trajectories of Decolonization: Elites and the Transformation from the Colonial to the Postcolonial, Cologne, Germany, 9-11 October 2008
| Location: | Germany |
| Conference Date: | 2008-10-09 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-09-23 |
| Announcement ID: |
164149 |
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Over the last decade, the study of decolonization has evolved into one of the most dynamic and thought-provoking areas of research, both in terms of empirical findings as well as in regard to theoretical and methodological diversity. Given the magnitude of the epochal changes and the prominent place decolonization occupies in the history of the twentieth century, it is appropriate, and indeed, indispensable, to both consider the results of recent scholarship in a comparative perspective, and to move forward to novel fields of enquiry.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9
10:00 WORDS OF WELCOME
Jost Dülffer and Marc Frey
Hans-Peter Ullmann (Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts), University of Cologne
Andreas Gestrich (Director), German Historical Institute, London
INTRODUCTION
Jost Dülffer and Marc Frey
Panel I: Indigenous Elites in Asia and the Middle East – Old and New
Chair: Dietmar Rothermund, University of Heidelberg
Southeast Asian Elites and the Construction of the ‘Nation’
Paul Kratoska, National University of Singapore
Negotiating Decolonization in the Classroom: Franco-Lebanese Interaction in the 1940s
Esther Möller, Jacobs University Bremen
Nehru - the dilemmas of a colonial inheritance
Judith Brown, University of Oxford
Panel II: Metropolitan Elites and the End of Empire
Chair: Jost Dülffer, University of Cologne
It was not displeasing to be thus assured that I, too, was decolonizable: European Colonials and the End of Empire in Comparative Context
Elizabeth Buettner, York University
Dutch Elites and the End of Empire
Marc Frey, Jacobs University Bremen
French Elites and the wave of decolonization around 1960
Daniel Mollenhauer, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
Keynote Speech
Alternatives to Nationalism: The Political Imagination of Elites in French West Africa, 1945-1960
Frederick Cooper, New York University
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10
Panel III: Metropolitan, Settler and Transnational Elites and the End of Empire
Chair: Corinna Unger, German Historical Institute, Washington
French Elites and the Decolonization of Indochina
Hugues Tertrais, Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne
Verwoerdian Apartheid and African political elites in South Africa, 1950-1968
Christoph Marx, University of Duisburg-Essen
Panel IV: Military-Administrative Elites
Chair: Benedikt Stuchtey, German Historical Institute, London
South Asian Military Elites in Comparison: Pakistan and India
Manjeet S Pardesi, University of Indiana, Bloomington
Intelligence Providers and the Fabric of the Late Colonial State
Martin Thomas, University of Exeter
Drivers of Change: Military-civilian elite units and the search for ‚modern men’ in the context of colonial wars during the 1950s
Stephan Malinowski, Humboldt University Berlin
Panel V a: Indigenous Elites in Africa – Old and New
Chair: Margit Szöllösi-Janze, University of Cologne
Chieftaincies and chiefs in northern Namibia: Intermediaries of Power between Traditionalism, Modernisation and Democratisation
Michael Bollig, University of Cologne
Parcours de l’instituteur sénégalais de la post-colonie : vers une sortie de l’élite ?
Ousseynou Faye, Université C.A Diop, Dakar
Panel V b: Indigenous Elites in Africa – Old and New
Chair: Marc Frey, Jacobs University Bremen
Sekou Touré and the Management of Elites in Guinea
Mairi S. MacDonald, University of Toronto
Julius Nyerere and the Project of African Socialism
Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin
The Formation of African elites vis-à-vis the EEC-process in Francophone Africa
Urban Vahsen, University of Cologne
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
Panel VI: Economic elites: Renegotiating the market space from the local to the global
Chair: Jakob Vogel, University of Cologne
Liverpool business elites and the end of empire
Nicholas White, Liverpool John Moores University
Emerging business elite in newly independent Indonesia
J. Thomas Lindblad, University of Leiden
Panel VII: The Cold War and Elites of the Third World
Chair: Anja Kruke, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn
The Soviet Union and the Socialist camp: Elite formation for the Third World
Andreas Hilger, University of Hamburg
United States, decolonization and the education of Third World elites
Corinna Unger, German Historical Institute Washington, DC
Roundtable Discussion
Commentators
Jost Dülffer, University of Cologne
Dietmar Rothermund, University of Heidelberg
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Marc Frey
Jacobs University Bremen
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen
(0049) (0) 241 200 3361
Email: m.frey@jacobs-university.de
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