Unpacking ‘Decolonisation’: Tracing Its Past, Present, and Intervening Periods

The theme of this seminar is inspired by our students!

As lecturers, we see and feel our students’ huge interest in learning about and discussing decolonisation in all its shapes. This seminar explores decolonisation and all its forms through a series of short presentations from members of the researcher group Culture, Mobility and Power (CAMP) at the Department of Anthropology, The University of Copenhagen.

The purpose of the short presentations is to give you - the participants - an insight into the way we relate to and work with all forms of decolonisation in our work. Secondly, they will be a point of departure for engaging all participants in a discussion around decolonisation and all its shapes and forms.

The event takes place in the Ethnographic Exploratorium on 16 December 2024 from 14.00-16.00. There will be snacks and drinks. Everyone is welcome.

 

Program:

14.00-14.05: Welcome by Anja Simonsen, Coordinator of CAMP

14.05-14.15: Hermandeep Kaur Gill (Online): Chinese Settler Colonialism in Tibet

14.15-14.25: Atreyee Sen: punitive politics and the postcolonial prison in India

14.25-14.35: Birgit Bräuchler: Challenges of decolonization in Indonesia

14.35-14.45: Asmus Randløv Rungby: Whose Borneo?: Post-colonial states and south-south coloniality in maritime southeast Asia

14.45-14.55: BREAK

14.55-15.05: Signe Gerd Kieffer-Døssing: Contemporary contestation in West Africa: Neo-colonialism and the quest for sovereignty

15.05-15.15: Humphrey Asamoah: Colonial Continuities: Royal West African Frontier Force and the Ghana Armed Forces

15.15-15.25: Matthew Carey: “Facebook, Féïsbouc or lfacebook: the politics of language in contemporary Morocco”

15.25-15.35: Inge-Merete Hougaard: Agricultural expansion and the colonisation of wetlands

15.35-16.00: Q & A moderated by Anja Simonsen