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The Organiser and the Victim: Power Relationships in the Colonial World
Date: 15 January 2011
Venue: Room CMO. 12 (A & B), Claus Moser Building, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG
The Organiser and the Victim: Power Relationships in the Colonial World
Saturday 15 January 2011
If you would like to attend please contact John Strachan (j.strachan@lancaster.ac.uk) or Laura Sandy (l.r.sandy@ams.keele.ac.uk)
Room CMO. 12 (A & B), Claus Moser Building, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG
10.00 Coffee and Welcome
10.30 Keynote Address
Chair: Christopher Grocott, Birmingham University
Migrants and the Marginalised in the Colonial and Post-Colonial British World
(Stephen Constantine, Lancaster University)
11.30 Coffee Break
12.00 Panel I: Historiography and Colonial Power Relationships
Chair: TBC
Power at Sea: Groups, Individuals, and the Recent Historiography of the Maritime World (Glen O'Hara, Oxford Brookes University)
'Poor Whites' in the History and Historiography of Empire: The Case of French Algeria
(John Strachan, Lancaster University)
Elites, Identity, and the Writing of Working Class Voices in the History of Gibraltar
(Christopher Grocott, Birmingham University)
13.20 Lunch
14.20 Panel II: Locating 'Poor Whites' in Colonial History
Chair: Huw David, Oxford University
The Politics of Rhodesia's White Working Class: Proletarian Aristocrats of Labour
(Donal Lowry, Oxford Brookes University)
Between Planter and Slave: Overseers, Race, and Class on Colonial Slave Plantations in Virginia and South Carolina (Laura Sandy, Keele University)
Degenerates, Drunks and Ne-er-do-wells: The 'Poor White' problem in Kenya Colony, 1939-1963 (Will Jackson, Leeds University)
15.40 Coffee Break
16.10 Panel III: Race and Otherness
Chair: TBC
'To Sow the Seed of National Strife in this Alien Region': Peasant Resettlement in Russian Tukestan, 1865-1917 (Alexander Morrison, Liverpool University)
'Race hatred is being fostered': racial discrimination in pre-independence Jamaica (Henrice Altink, York University)
'Minority' Causes in Imperial Discourses 1878-1914: The Case of James Bryce and the Armenians (Jo Laycock, Manchester University)
17.30 Wine Reception and Closing Discussion
19.00 Dinner
Contact:
Who can attend: Anyone
Further information
Associated staff: Stephen Constantine, John Strachan
Organising departments and research centres: History
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