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Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group at BISA 2018

We're delighted to announce the programme of CPD panels and activities at the BISA conference, 13 to 15 June 2018.

Group WA04: Wednesday 08:00 AM – 09:30 AM  Panel

Unlearning academia: Disseminating postcolonial critique in/with non academic contexts

Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor

Convenor: Franziska Mueller, University of Kassel

Chair: Franziska Müller, University of Kassel

Papers:

  • Connecting the Dots – Timelines of Oppression and Resistance Daniel Bendix, glokal Berlin
  • mangoes & bullets – Materials for Racism- and Domination-Critical Thinking and Acting Chandra-Milena Danielzik, glokal Berlin
  • “Bittersweet Pepper – Episodes from the Colonial Present” Franziska Mueller, University of Kassel

WB05: Wednesday 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM  Panel

Identities, mobilities and rights: The relevance of citizenship

Room: Walcot Room 1st floor

Convenor: Terri Anne Teo, Nanyang Technological University

Chair: Terri Anne Teo, Nanyang Technological University

Chair: Gemma Bird, University of Liverpool

Papers:

  • Valuing citizenship: what can citizenship studies tell us about refugees lived experience? Gemma Bird, University of Liverpool
  • The possibilities of affective empathy? Abjective Vulnerability & The Life in the UK Test Amanda Russell Beattie , Aston University
  • Citizenship as Third Space Aoileann Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, University of Manchester
  • Multiculturalism Beyond Citizenship Terri Anne Teo, Nanyang Technological University

WC07: Wednesday 11:45 AM – 13:15 PM  Panel

Decolonial Solidarity, Activism, and the Commodification of Struggle

Room: Camden Room 1st floor

Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London

Chair: Anupama Ranawana, University of Aberdeen

Papers:

  • Beyond talking back. Decolonial Learning on Intervention and Solidarity through Blackness Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, University of Portsmouth
  • The decolonial subject and the problem of non- Western authenticity Marco Vieira, University of Birmingham
  • The ethics of dehumanisation and the possibility of creaturely witnessing Oliver Kearns, University of Edinburgh
  • ‘Non-African’ Refugee Entrepreneurs: The Racialised Management and Marketing of Syrian Refugees Lewis Turner, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute

Wednesday 13.30 PM – 14.10 PM

Colonial/ Postcolonial/ Decolonial Working Group Business Meeting

Room: tbc

Agenda:

  1. Membership update
  2. Group activities in last 12 months
  3. Budget spend
  4. Upcoming activities/ direction
  5. Mentoring programme
  6. Working group prizes
  7. Stream for BISA 2019
  8. Working Group convenor elections 2019
  9. AOB

WD04: Wednesday 14:15 PM – 15:45 PM  Panel

Reconsidering ‘responsibility’ through a critical analysis of practices

Room: Walcot Room 1st floor

Convenor: Liam Midzain-Gobin, McMaster University

Chair: Caroline Dunton, The George Washington University

Discussant: Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS, University of London

Papers:

  • Revisiting Responsibility in International Relations: Accountability, Practice, and Foreign Policy Caroline Dunton, The George Washington University
  • Decolonizing Responsibility through Indigenous Resurgence Liam Midzain-Gobin, McMaster University
  • (Ir)Responsibility and the European Refugee ‘Crisis’: Performing the Humanitarian-Security Nexus Michael Gordon, McMaster University
  • Between regionalism and free movement: Rethinking responsibility with borderland communities in Central Africa Dieunedort Wandji, University of Portsmouth

TA03: Thursday 08:00 AM – 09:30 AM  Panel 

Security practices and the making of (post)conflict areas

Room: Walcot Room 1st floor

Convenor: Thorsten Bonacker, University of Marburg

Chair: Thorsten Bonacker, University of Marburg

Papers:

  • Securitization and Geopolitics: Russia’s Evolving Policy in Eurasia David Lewis, University of Exeter
  • Re-Configurations of the Center-Periphery-Relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea Werner Distler, University of Marburg
  • Postcolonial Security Practices? The Cameroonian Decolonization in Conflict Maria Ketzmerick, University of Marburg
  • The perpetuation of global hierarchy through targeted killing practices in the “war on terror” Ingvild Bode, University of Kent
  • Internal colonialism and the security practices of statebuilding Thorsten Bonacker, University of Marburg

TB08: Thursday 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM  Roundtable

On crushed and uncrushed hope: a critical conversation between anticolonial, Indigenous, and emancipatory forms of nationalism

Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor

Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London

Chair: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London

Panellists:

  • Anupama Ranawana, University of Aberdeen
  • Tamara Soukatta, International Institute of Social Studies of the E
  • Pol Bargués Pedreny, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • Sara Salem, University of Warwick

TD03: Thursday 14:45 PM – 16:15 PM  Panel

Situated Perspectives on the Colonial Global Order

Room: Kindsmead 1 1st floor

Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London

Chair: Olivia Rutazibwa, University of Portsmouth

Papers:

  • Oil, Sovereignty and Hierarchy in the Global Order: Iran in the 1930s Evaleila Pesaran, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
  • Resistance and Security networking in a time of fear: A Historical Reading of Iran’s Contemporary Foreign Policy Ane Kirkegaard, Malmö University
  • The Subaltern Standpoint in the Geopolitical Imaginary – Retrieving the Local in Crimea Alvina Hoffmann, King’s College London
  • ‘A Most Valuable Propaganda Medium’: The First Twenty Years of the British Council in Cyprus (1935-1955) Maria Hadjiathanasiou, University of Nicosia
  • South West Africa and International Society: C.A.W. Manning and the Dispute over a Class C Mandate David Long, Carleton University

TE08: Thursday 16:45 PM – 18:15 PM  Roundtable

Decolonising Marx’s Capital Reading Group – http://bit.ly/2csSYSW

Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor

Convenor: Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS, University of London

Chair: Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS, University of London

Panellists:

  • Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary, University of London
  • Sara Salem, University of Warwick
  • Maia Pal, Oxford Brookes University
  • Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary, University of London
  • Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS, University of London

Thursday 20:30 PM

Colonial/ Postcolonial/ Decolonial Working Group Drinks

The Star Inn, 23 Vineyards, Bath BA1 5NA

FA08: Friday 08:00 AM – 09:30 AM  Roundtable

Interrogating Archives in International Relations

Room: Bathwick room 1st floor

Convenor: Kalathmika Natarajan, University of Copenhagen

Chair: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary, University of London

Panellists:

  • Vipul Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
  • Alexander Davis, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Raphaëlle Khan, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
  • Medha Medha, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
  • Kalathmika Natarajan, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

FB04: Friday 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM  Panel

Law, Justice, Global Governance and the Colonial Question

Room: Walcot Room 1st floor

Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London

Chair: Alvina Hoffman, King’s College London

Papers:

  • The imperialist in my trishaw: explorations on Lay Buddhist nationalism in post war Sri Lanka Anupama Ranawana, Centre for Poverty Analysis
  • Colonialism, law and legitimacy: the transformations of the Israeli military legal system Maayan Geva, University of Roehampton
  • Temporalizing and spatializing justice: narratives and discourses on retribution and redemption in international law Renato Sabbagh Bahia, Aberystwyth University
  • Decolonising the philosophical anthropology of sustainability in global governance Jenneth Parker, The Schumacher Institute
  • Re-Narrating San Francisco: The United Nations and Anti-Colonial Resistance Katy Harsant, University of Warwick

FC09: Friday 11:45 AM – 13:15 PM  Panel

Space, place, epistemic orders and the cartographic impulse

Room: Camden Room 1st floor

Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London

Chair: Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London

Panels:

  • Urbanization and International Order William Rooke, London School of Economics
  • Disappearances among favelas dwellers: a result of abject places and lives. Sabrina Villenave, University of Manchester
  • Travelling with maps after cartography critiques Pol Bargues Pedreny, University of Groningen
  • Do Not Touch: Museums and the International Politics of Display Jayashree Vivekanandan, South Asian University

FE10: Friday 16:15 PM – 17:45 PM  Roundtable

Density & Atrocity: Reflections from the Intersections of Urban Life

Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor

Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London

Chair: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London

Panellists:

  • Sabrina Villenave, University of Manchester
  • Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London
  • Sarah Phinney, University of Manchester