Second
Conference of the Postcolonial Europe-Network (founded by NWO Internationalization in Humanities) in collaboration with
Postcolonial Studies Initiative (PCI), Centre for the Humanities
(CfH)
and the
Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP)
Utrecht
University, April 18-19, 2013
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Postcolonial Transitions
in Europe:
Conflict, Transitional
Justice and Cosmopolitanism
Robert Young
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Convener: Sandra Ponzanesi
This conference focuses on the relevance of postcolonial theories
for the understanding of world-systemic transformations and the shifts in geopolitics
in terms of conflict, transitional justice and cosmopolitanism. New crises such
as conflicts, terrorism, trafficking, and human rights violation go beyond the
boundaries of the nation state and European frontiers and require new
analytical tools for the understanding of these rapid transformations.
By investigating culture with the innovative, interdisciplinary
and transcultural tools of postcolonial critique Europe emerges as a complex
space, which is often imagined and oblivious of its politics of inclusion and
exclusion towards migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, as well as of its take
on internal conflicts, political transitions and cosmopolitan imaginary. In
order to tackle the new crises that plague Europe and beyond, this conference will
bring together the complementary and synergizing expertise of postcolonial
scholars who work across different disciplinary fields such as conflict
studies, law, ethics, memory studies, human rights and international relations
as well as the arts, visual culture, music and digital platforms. The goal is
to inform a new wave of young scholars and academics on how to assess the
emergencies and transitions of the present through an ability to acknowledge
the working of the past and rethink Europe as a new possible cosmopolitan space.
The conference will focus on conflict, transitional justice and
cosmopolitanism examining the narrative that walks the line between, before and
after, memory and truth, compensation and reconciliation, justice and peace.
Some of the participants will examine communities ravaged by colonialism and
the harm that colonial and postcolonial economic and social disparities cause.
The comparative and interdisciplinary exchanges will generate a better
understanding of difficult pasts to present communities, questioning the many
possible trajectories from disruption to truth, reconciliation and healing,
with particular focus on Europe.
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Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Gurminder K. Bhambra:
Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism in an Austere Europe
(Warwick University, UK):
Rosemarie Buikema:
Transitional Justice,
Dialogical Truth and the Arts
(Utrecht University, NL)
Kate Mackintosh
Development of
International Criminal Justice.
The Example of the
International Criminal Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia
(ICTY, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,
NL)
Neil Lazarus
Combined and Uneven
Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature
(Warwick University, UK)
Bruce Robbins
Cosmopolitanism in Deep
Time
(Columbia University, USA)
Robert Young
Late Postcolonialism
(New York University, USA)
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Final Programme
Day
1
Location: Academic Building (domplein 29) Kanunnikenzaal (entrance
achter de dom 7)
9.00-9.30: Coffee
9.30-9.45: Opening Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht
University, NL)
Postcolonial Transitions in Europe
9.45-10.45: Keynote 1
Cosmopolitanism in Deep
Time
10.45-12.00: Panel 1
Chair: Graham Huggan
Postimperial Nostalgia
Lars Jensen (Roskilde University,
Denmark)
12.00-13.15: Panel 2
13.15-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.00: Keynote 2
Neil Lazarus (Warwick University)
Combined and Uneven
Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature
15.00-16.15: Panel 3
Chair: Paulo de
Medeiros
16.15-16.30: Coffee Break
16.30-17.30: Keynote 3
Programme Day 2
9.00-9.30: Coffee
9.30-10.30: Keynote 4
10.30-12.15: Panel 4
12.15-13.15: Keynote 4
13.15-14.00: Lunch break
14.00-15.00: Keynote 6
15.00-16.15: Panel 5
16.15-17.30: Panel 6
17.30-17.45: Closing Remarks
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The conference is free of charge, but for registration and information
please mail: s.ponzanesi@uu.nl
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Postcolonial Europe
Network PEN is funded by NWO (Dutch National Endowment for the Humanities).
The project, conducted
by Sandra Ponzanesi and Paulo de Medeiros (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
in collaboration with European partners, aims to establish an international
platform for developing research into new forms of conceptualizing Europe from
a multidisciplinary perspective engaging several disciplines (literary, media,
gender studies) in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (sociology, political
theory). PEN aspires to develop theoretical and methodological tools for
representing and imagining Europe in a postcolonial and postimperial
perspective.
PEN International
partners are:
Utrecht University,
University of Leeds, University of Munich, London School of Economics,
University of Naples, University of Roskilde and University of Iceland.
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The conference was made possible thanks to the collaboration of:
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The
PEN conference is organized back to back with the Edward Said Memorial Conference “In Time of Not Yet” (April 15-17, 2013).
Organized
by the Centre for Humanities in Utrecht, in collaboration with the Treaty of
Utrecht 2013 commemoration.
The
Edward Said Memorial conference “In The Time Of Not Yet” inaugurates the
commemoration of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. The three-day conference will
focus on the role of culture in diplomacy and peace-making. With Mariam Said as
honorary chair, each day will feature renowned speakers on Edward Said’s work,
such as Judith Butler, Etienne Balibar, Maestro Daniel Baremboim, Gayatri
Spivak, Marina Warner and many others.
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