Thursday 4/28
6:30pm • Welcome Dinner at Miya’s Sushi (68 Howe Street, New Haven CT) [Meet in hotel lobby at 6:15 to walk over]
Friday 4/29
Rosenkranz Hall Room 202, 115 Prospect Street, New Haven CT
9-9:15am • Breakfast/Coffee
9:15-10:05am • Session I
Jonathan Wyrtzen (Yale) and Nick Wilson (Stony Brook)
“Rules of Colonial Difference”
Discussant: Andreas Wimmer (Columbia)
10:05-10:15am • Coffee
10:15-11:05 • Session II
Osama Abi-Mershed (Georgetown)
“Enacting Exception: Rights and Citizenship in French Algeria”
Discussant: Julian Go (Boston U)
11:15-12:05pm • Session III
Dan Slater (Chicago) and Diana Kim (Harvard)
“Selective States: Legibility and Legitimacy in Southeast Asia’s Colonial Opium Registries”
Discussant: James C. Scott (Yale)
12:05-1:15pm • Lunch
1:30-2:20pm • Session IV
Adria Lawrence (Yale)
“Direct and Indirect Rule”
Discussant: Martin Thomas (Exeter)
2:20-3:10pm • Session V
Michael Hechter (Arizona State & University of Copenhagen)
“The Limits of Indirect Rule: Internal Colonialism, Non-State Revenue and Mounting Nationalism in Corsica”
Discussant: Adria Lawrence (Yale)
3:10-3:30pm • Coffee
3:20-4:10pm • Session VI
Alice Conklin (Ohio State)
“From Objective Sociology to Action: Charles Le Coeur’s Utopian Colonialism in the Protectorate of Morocco (1928-1944)”
Discussant: Osama Abi-Mershed (Georgetown)
4:20-5:10pm • Session VII
Martin Thomas (Exeter)
“From Sétif to Moramanga: Identifying Insurgents and Ascribing Guilt in the French Colonial Post-War”
Discussant: Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia)
6:30pm • Dinner at The Penthouse at The Study (1157 Chapel St, New Haven, CT)
Saturday, 4/30
Rosenkranz Hall Room 202, 115 Prospect Street, New Haven CT
9-9:15am • Breakfast/Coffee
9:15-10:05am • Session VIII
Maya Tudor (Oxford)
“Separate Electorates and Political Mobilization in British India”
Discussant: Julia Stephens (Yale)
10:05-10:55am • Session IX
Matthew Lange (McGill)
“Setting Up the Nation State for Failure: Colonialism, Missionaries, and Ethnic Violence”
Discussant: Phil Gorski (Yale)
10:55-11:10am • Coffee
11:10-12:00pm • Session X
James Gelvin (UCLA)
“The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s in its Imperial Context”
Discussant: Julian Go (Boston U)
12:00pm • Lunch