Episodes
Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Indenture to Windrush
Oral History Panel
Trevor Phillips CBE
Adrian Joseph
Heidi Safia Mirza
Roderick Westmaas
Liany Malkani
Dr Mike Phillips OBE
2017 is the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire (1834-1917). Yet the system of indenture, under which the British brought Chinese and East Indians to the Caribbean to labour on the region’s sugar plantations, is a largely unknown part of British imperial history. Another chapter in...
Published 05/11/17
Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Indenture to Windrush
Music in Migration Histories: Indentureship to Windrush
Professor Tina K. Ramnarine and Khalil Rahman Ali
2017 is the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire (1834-1917). Yet the system of indenture, under which the British brought Chinese and East Indians to the Caribbean to labour on the region’s sugar plantations, is a largely unknown part of British imperial history. Another chapter in British imperial...
Published 05/11/17
Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Indenture to Windrush
Professor David Dabydeen
2017 is the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire (1834-1917). Yet the system of indenture, under which the British brought Chinese and East Indians to the Caribbean to labour on the region’s sugar plantations, is a largely unknown part of British imperial history. Another chapter in British imperial history is marked by the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, almost 70 years...
Published 05/11/17
Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Indenture to Windrush
Oral History Panel
Trevor Phillips CBE
Adrian Joseph
Heidi Safia Mirza
Roderick Westmaas
Liany Malkani
Dr Mike Phillips OBE
2017 is the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire (1834-1917). Yet the system of indenture, under which the British brought Chinese and East Indians to the Caribbean to labour on the region’s sugar plantations, is a largely unknown part of British imperial history. Another chapter in...
Published 05/11/17
Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Indenture to Windrush
Music in Migration Histories: Indentureship to Windrush
Professor Tina K. Ramnarine and Khalil Rahman Ali
2017 is the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire (1834-1917). Yet the system of indenture, under which the British brought Chinese and East Indians to the Caribbean to labour on the region’s sugar plantations, is a largely unknown part of British imperial history. Another chapter in British imperial...
Published 05/11/17
Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Indenture to Windrush
Professor David Dabydeen
2017 is the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire (1834-1917). Yet the system of indenture, under which the British brought Chinese and East Indians to the Caribbean to labour on the region’s sugar plantations, is a largely unknown part of British imperial history. Another chapter in British imperial history is marked by the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, almost 70 years...
Published 05/11/17
School of Advanced Study
The French Intifada: the long war between France and its Arabs
Professor Andrew Hussey
(Director, Centre for Postcolonial Studies)
Professor of cultural history and director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies gives his inaugural lecture. His book The French Intifada, published in 2014, was a cultural history of France and its former colonies in North Africa, explicitly attempting to understand present tensions and challenges in both territories. It has been...
Published 02/02/17
School of Advanced Study
The French Intifada: the long war between France and its Arabs
Professor Andrew Hussey
(Director, Centre for Postcolonial Studies)
Professor of cultural history and director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies gives his inaugural lecture. His book The French Intifada, published in 2014, was a cultural history of France and its former colonies in North Africa, explicitly attempting to understand present tensions and challenges in both territories. It has been...
Published 02/02/17
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Centre for Postcolonial Studies Inaugural Workshop
Address
Professor Catherine Davies
(Director, Institute of Modern Languages Research)
Introduction to the Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Dr Catherine Gilbert
Panel 1: UK Centres
Sanjay Seth (Centre for Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths)
Kendrick Oliver (Centre for Imperial and Postcolonial Studies, Southampton)
Ziad Elmarsafy (Comparative Literature, King's College London)
Matthew Brown (Centre for the...
Published 01/18/16
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Centre for Postcolonial Studies Inaugural Workshop
Panel 2: UK and Europe
Mark Thurner (Institute of Latin American Studies, SAS)
Charles Forsdick (AHRC 'Translating Cultures' Theme Leadership Fellow, Liverpool)
Sandra Ponzanesi (Postcolonial Studies Initiative, Utrecht)
Coro J-A Juanena (Kolonialismo Osteko Ikasketa Zentroa (KOIZ), Bilbao)
Anshuman Mondal (Postcolonial Studies Association, Brunel)
Louise Hardwick (FRANCOPOCO Network, Birmingham)
Veronica...
Published 01/18/16
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Centre for Postcolonial Studies Inaugural Workshop
Address
Professor Catherine Davies
(Director, Institute of Modern Languages Research)
Introduction to the Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Dr Catherine Gilbert
Panel 1: UK Centres
Sanjay Seth (Centre for Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths)
Kendrick Oliver (Centre for Imperial and Postcolonial Studies, Southampton)
Ziad Elmarsafy (Comparative Literature, King's College London)
Matthew Brown (Centre for the...
Published 01/18/16
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Centre for Postcolonial Studies Inaugural Workshop
Panel 2: UK and Europe
Mark Thurner (Institute of Latin American Studies, SAS)
Charles Forsdick (AHRC 'Translating Cultures' Theme Leadership Fellow, Liverpool)
Sandra Ponzanesi (Postcolonial Studies Initiative, Utrecht)
Coro J-A Juanena (Kolonialismo Osteko Ikasketa Zentroa (KOIZ), Bilbao)
Anshuman Mondal (Postcolonial Studies Association, Brunel)
Louise Hardwick (FRANCOPOCO Network, Birmingham)
Veronica...
Published 01/18/16