Workshop Schedule

09:30-09:45 Registration

09:45-10:00 Welcome, Prof Dónal Hassett

10:00-11:00 Keynote: Prof Santanu Das, All Souls College, Oxford University, ‘Decolonising the First World War: Archive, Resistance, Commemoration’.

11:00-11:15 Coffee

11:15-12:45: Tracing Veterans in Colonial Archival Collections with:

  • Massimo Zaccaria, University of Pavia
  • Radhika Singha, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Hilary Buxton, Kenyon College

12:45-14:15: Lunch

14:15-15:45: Thinking Beyond the Limits of the Colonial Archive with:

  • Michelle Moyd, Michigan State University
  • George Njung, Baylor University
  • Alfred Tembo, University of Zambia

15:45-16:00: Coffee

16:00-17:00: Keynote: Prof Uoldelul Chelati Dirar, University of Macerata, ‘The Afterlife of Conflict: Social Mobility, Displacement, and Agency in the Voices of Italy’s Colonial Subjects’.

17:00-17:30: Prof Gavin Rand, Greenwich University: The ‘Punjab Registers’ Project

17:30-18:00: Closing Comments