Colonialism and Its Aftermath
An Interdisciplinary Conference
June 25-25, 2004
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Colonialism recast the world map, linking disparate geographies and diverse cultures under the aegis of European empires. If the sun never set on the British Empire, it has also never set on scholarly attempts to understand colonialism and its impact on the world. Colonial and postcolonial studies across a range of humanities and social sciences disciplines continue to analyse the complex cultural phenomena of colonialism, addressing issues in literary studies, geography, Asian studies, history, indigenous studies, art history, race studies, architecture, women's studies, cultural studies, and anthropology, amongst others. Much of the most interesting work in this field is interdisciplinary. The University of Tasmania's research cluster Colonialism and Its Aftermath invites proposals for papers from scholars interested in exploring the relationship between colonialism and its aftermath in innovative and interdisciplinary ways.
This conference will consider colonialism and its aftermath in a wide variety of forms
Papers research the following topics:
Colonialism's culture and its postcolonial aftermath
Imperial networks of influence, ideas, and individuals
Colonial anthropology and its aftermath
Ecology and environment in colonial and postcolonial contexts
Colonial and postcolonial governance
Convictism, slavery, and human trafficking
Histories and historiographies of empires, colonies, and colonial phenomena
Contested histories, contested sites
Colonial archives and their postcolonial deployment
Colonial heritage and heritage studies
Indigenous histories of colonialism and its aftermath
Colonial and postcolonial cultural geographies
Colonial cities and postcolonial architecture
Literary representations of colonialism and postcolonialism
Migration, diaspora, and dispersal
Postcolonial cultural studies
Colonial and postcolonial art and criticism
Conference chair: Dr Anna Johnston
Conference committee:
Dr Anna Johnston, School of English, Journalism, and European Languages, University of Tasmania
Dr Pam Allen, School of Asian Languages and Studies, University of Tasmania
Dr Mitchell Rolls, Riawunna, University of Tasmania
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