Day One: 27 June 2016
8.30-9.00– Registration (ICS-ULisboa, foyer)
9.00 - Welcome remarks
9.15-10.45 - Session I: Archives of subaltern resistance
Lipika Kamra (University of Oxford), Subaltern Resistance, Counterinsurgency, and Statemaking in Colonial India
Orna Darr (Carmel Academic Center), Hidden transcripts of resistance in the colonial courtroom: an analysis of a rape case in Mandate Palestine
Kim Wagner (Queen Mary, University of London/George Washington University), Gandhi ki Jai!’: (Mis)reading Resistance in early twentieth century Colonial India
Uday Chandra (Georgetown University), Rediscovering the Primitive: Adivasi Histories and Radical Historiography in Postcolonial India
Coffee-break – 10.45-11.00
11.00-12.30 - Session II: Resistance stories
Sameetah Agah (Pratt Institute), Stories from the Field: Pukhtun Resistance and Colonial Warfare in the North-West Frontier of British India
Manjeet Baruah (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Between Burmese and British Imperialisms: Space, Orality and Resistance in Nineteenth Century Assam
Christine Gilmore (University of Leeds), Contested Histories: Nubian Writing and Resistance in Postcolonial Egypt
Stephanie Lämmert (European University Institute), The story of Osale and Paulo: outlaws or freedom fighters?
Lunch: 12.30-14.00
14.00-15.30 - Session III: Liberation and memory
Paolo Israel (University of the Western Cape), ‘May the White of Mueda Die’: Song, Resistance, and the Mueda Massacre
Ana Sousa Santos (Durham University), ‘We fought to liberate the country’: memory, resistance and the enduring legacy of war in northern Cabo Delgado
Nadine Siegert (University of Bayreuth), The visuality of militant femininity in the context of the revolution of Angola and Mozambique
Rebecca Granato (Al Quds Bard College), The Rhetoric and Imagery of Colonial Resistance: The Dialectic Between the Irish and Palestinian National Movements
Coffee-break – 15.30-15.40
15.40-17.20 – Session IV: Accommodation and colonial law
Sarah Ghabrial (Columbia University), Women between resistance and accommodation: Muslim litigation in French colonial Algerian courts, 1870-1930
Sarath Pillai (University of Chicago), Palimpsest of Domination: Treaties with and resistances to the British empire in an Indian princely state
Raymond Orr (University of Melbourne), Historical Institutionalism, Treaties and Comparative Indigenous Self-Governing Power in British Settler Societies: Early Formidability and its Legacy in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States
Hedi Viterbo (SOAS, University of London), Resistance, comparison, and generational segregation
17.30-19.30 – Keynote Address
Professor James C. Scott (Yale University), A Brief History of Flight from the State
Day Two: 28 June 2016
9.00-10.30 - Session VI: Slavery, freedom, and exile
Stephanie Mawson (University of Cambridge), Slave Raiding and Resistance in the Seventeenth Century Philippines
Helen McKee (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History), Resistance and Runaways: The Jamaican Maroons in the Eighteenth Century
Matthew Nielsen (Carnegie Mellon University), Freedom and Flight: The Politics of Runaway Slaves in the Lower Orinoco River Basin in Late Eighteenth Century
Uma Kothari (Manchester University), Transnational networks of resistance: contesting colonial rule and the politics of exile
Coffee-break – 10.30-10.45
10.45-12.15 - Session VII: Control and agency
Federica Morelli (University of Turin), Land and freedom. Slaves and free coloreds in a border region of the Spanish empire
Adolfo Polo y La Borda (University of Maryland), Controlling Subversion in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Marie Rodet (SOAS, University of London), Exploring resistance against internal slavery in Kayes, Mali at the turn of the twentieth century
Ilaria Berti (Pablo de Olavide University), The Agency of the Slaves in the West Indian Kitchens of the Nineteenth Century
Lunch: 12.30-14.00
Session VIII - 14.00-15.30: Value and colonial economies
Jake Richards (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), Cape Town liberalism as neither an imperialist nor a resistance project
Patricia Hayes (University of the Western Cape), Taxing subjects, colonial systems and African publics in the Union of South Africa and Northern Namibia, 1929-46
Tijl Vanneste (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), A Resistant Society: Diamond Smuggling & the Rise of a Brazilian Sentiment
Todd Cleveland (University of Arkansas), Resisting the Conceptualization of Theft as Resistance: Capitalization Strategies on Angola’s Colonial-Era Diamond Mines, 1917-1975
Coffee-break – 15.30-15.45
Session IX - 15.45-17.15: Environment and science
Claire Edington (University of California, San Diego), Re-thinking resistance: families, experts and the ‘micropolitics’ of psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam
Cláudia Castelo (CIUHCT-FC/University of Lisbon), Cattle rising, indigenous knowledge and ecological resilience in the Cunene region
Kent Mathewson (Louisiana State University), Agent of Resistance, Oil of Oppression: The Castor Bean in Historical and Geographical Colonial Contexts
Marta Macedo (CIUHCT-FC/University of Lisbon), Beyond human resistance: cocoa ecologies in the tropical island of São Tomé
17.30: End of day two
Conference dinner (venue tbc)
Day Three: 29 June 2016
Session XI: 9.00-10.30: Diplomacy and international dynamics
Mads Bomholt Nielsen (King’s College London), Colonial Resistance and Anglo-German diplomacy: The case of Jakob Marengo
José Pedro Monteiro (ICS-ULisboa), The international dimensions of resistance: Portuguese colonial labour policies and its critics abroad (1953-1962)
Candace Sobers (Carleton University), From “the bush to the conference table”: International resistance and Angolan independence, 1968-1973
Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Cardiff University), ‘Struggling in defence of international legality’: African anticolonial resistance in international law
Coffee-break – 10.30-10.45
Session XII: 10.45-12.00: Transnational mobilities
Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal (Karl-Ruprecht University, Heidelberg), Terrorism and Resistance Against Russian Imperial Rule
Alexander Kais (University of Illinois), Of internal and external imperialisms: International Law and Confucianist visions of empire in the late Qing
Isa Blumi (Stockholm University), Transitional resistance: the global Ottoman Refugee and colonial terror
Lunch: 12.30-14.00
Session XIII: 14.00-15.30: National histories and comparisons
Jacob Smith (Queen Mary, University of London), Resistance or robbery? The development of the ‘Rebel-Dacoit’ problem and transformation of the Indian Uprising post-1857
Adeline Darrigol (University of Maine, France), La résistance anticoloniale en Guinée espagnole (*)
Yavuz Tuyloglu (University of Sussex), Eastern connections: International Constitution of Iranian and Turkish Nationalisms
Inês Galvão (ICS, University of Lisbon) and Catarina Laranjeiro (CES, University of Coimbra), Struggling gender at the liberation front: questions on equality and complementarity in the making of Guinea-Bissau’s modern nation
Coffee-break – 15.30-15.45
Session XIV: 15.45-16.45: Religion, writing and the circulation of ideas
Parashar Kulkarni (Yale NUS College), The Origins of Reformist Hinduism in Colonial India
Naveen Kanalu, (University of California, Los Angeles), Writing Precolonial History as Resisting Empire: Narrating the Life and Times of Aurangzeb under Late Colonial Rule in South Asia
Isadora Fonseca Ataíde (Independent scholar), Journalism and resistance in the press of Portuguese Africa
Adelaide Machado (CHAM/FCSH-UNL), Cátia M. Costa (ISCTE-IUL) & Sandra A. Lobo (CHAM/FCSH-UNL),Colonial Periodical Press as form and space of resistance: a comparative study within the twentieth-century Portuguese empire
Coffee-break –16.45-17.00
Session XV: 17.00-18.30 Post- and Neo-colonial landscapes
Camille Jacob (University of Portsmouth), Decolonising languages - questioning "English as Resistance" in Algeria
Ralph Wilde (University College London), ‘Human rights’ as a colonial and neo-colonial resistance strategy: lessons from the experiences of international law
Sharri Plonski (SOAS, University of London), New Borders: Carving out Palestinian Space in the Israeli-Zionist landscape
Emilio Distretti (Al Quds Bard College & Kenyon Institute, Council for British Research in the Levant), Writing Jerusalem 2016. A bio-dictionary for a capital Ghost Town.