Resonances from the Colonial Past
Some photographs taken at the Oxford Workshop Keynote speaker, Stathis Kalyvas (Yale), on ‘How civil wars have changed since the late 18th century’. Participants at the Oxford workshop.
Read More ‘Comparing Insurgencies’: St Antony’s College, Oxford, 16–17 March 2017Recruitment for insurgency and counterinsurgency Thursday, 13 July 2017 10.20 – 10.40: Tea/coffee 10.40 – 11.00: Welcome remarks 11.00 – 12.30: Insurgent recruitment Bart Luttikhuis (Leiden University), Peter Keppy (NIOD Amsterdam) and Abdul Wahid (KITLV Leiden): Violence strikes root, why vigilantism became central to Indonesian politics 1943-1955 Mathilde von Bulow (Glasgow): External sanctuaries and …
Read More Workshop Programme Leiden 13-14 July 2017AMNESTY TO COUNTER INSURGENCY: GLOBAL COMPARISONS FROM THE COLONIAL CONTEXT, 1920-2000 Workshop Global History & Culture Centre, University of Warwick 14-15 June 2018 This workshop is part of a Leverhulme Trust Research Network on Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past. Led by the University of Exeter’s Centre for War, State and Society, other collaborators …
Read More Call for papers – Amnesty to Counter Insurgency16 March 2017 10.20 – 10.40: Tea/coffee 10.30 – 11.00: Welcome remarks 11.00 – 12.30: Colonial Africa James McDougall (Oxford) – Colonial Violence and Counter-insurgency in 19th and 20th Century Africa Jonathan Krause (Oxford) – Anticolonial Uprisings in the French Empire in 1916-7 Chair: Stacey Hynd (Exeter) 12.30 – 13.30: Lunch 13.30 – 15.00: Comparing …
Read More Workshop Programme Oxford 16-17 March 2017
Journal of Eastern African Studies has just produced a Tenth Anniversary Virtual Issue, which includes my article on Wagalla. This is now available as a free download if you click on the link below. Remembering Wagalla: state violence in northern Kenya, 1962–1991 David M Anderson Director of Graduate Studies in History, Professor of African History …
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E. Blanchard, A. Lauro, M. Bloembergen (eds), Policing in Colonial Empires. Cases, Connections, Boundaries (ca. 1850–1970), Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2017. Emmanuel and Martin have been involved with a recent project which has resulted in the writing of a book, which may be of interest to you. In brief the book looks at the colonial security …
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Leverhulme Trust network: Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past Paris Research Workshop, December 2016 Hosted by Emmanuel Blanchard of the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin/Sciences Po Saint-Germain, the second Leverhulme Trust workshop on Understanding Insurgencies was held in Paris on 15-16 December 2016. The workshop was themed around the issues of laws of war and targets …
Read More December Workshop in ParisDay one: Thursday, 15 December: Centre Malher, room 409 9.30-10.00: Coffee 10.00-10.15: Welcome: Emmanuel Blanchard & Martin Thomas (workshop coordinators) Session 1: 10.15-11.15 Boyd van Dijk, EUI, ‘The Geneva Conventions of 1949: the imperial origins of humanitarian law.’ 11.15-11.30: Coffee Session 2: 11.30 – 12.45 Huw Bennett, Cardiff University, ‘British psychological warfare and propaganda in …
Read More Workshop Programme Paris 15-16 December, 2016
Following September’s inaugural network meeting in Exeter I now have a link to the introduction, written by Dan Branch and myself, to the wider collection of papers. Anderson, David M. “Making the loyalist bargain: surrender, amnesty, and impunity in Kenya’s decolonization, 1952-63.” International History Review 39, i (2017): in press. Please click on the link …
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Following September’s inaugural network meeting in Exeter, I can now give you a free download of the paper I presented at that workshop. Anderson, David M. and Daniel Branch. “Allies at the end of empire: loyalists, nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76.” International History Review 39, i (2017): in press. Please click on the link …
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