Program Friday Nov. 12 7:45 AM EST READING OF RESOLUTION 1514
PANEL I:
8:00 AM EST
THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION: EVER-CONTESTED
Laurie Mälksoo, "1917/1920 and 1960: Two Different Concepts of Self Determination" Tony Wood, "The Double Life of Self-Determination: Indigenous Rights, Anthropology, & the Mexican State" Sarath Pillai, "No Self-Determination for Us or Among Us: the Career of a Global Idea in Colonial India" Chair: Jonathan Wyrzten
PANEL II:
9:10 AM EST
REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALISMS
Allan E.S. Lumba, "Revolutionary Decolonization in the Philippines: Between the World Wars" Zaib un Nisa Aziz, "The Oppressed Assemble: The Reception of the Russian Revolution in the Colonial World" Yasser Ali Nasser, "Worldbuilding Through 'Asia': Sino-Indian Friendship and the Promise of Solidarity Chair: Jennifer Pitts
KEYNOTE: 10:30 AM EST
ADOM GETACHEW, "Africa for the Africans: A History of SelfDetermination before Decolonization" Chair: Samuel Moyn
PANEL III:
12:30 PM EST
RESOLUTION 1514 UP AGAINST EMPIRE
Eva-Maria Muschik, "The UN in the Congo: Trusteeship versus Self-Determination, 1960-1964" Aden Knapp, "Empire in the Dock: Resolution 1514, Decolonization, and the International Court of Justice" Oliver Barsalou, "Resolution 1514 and the International Lineages of Self-Government" Nazmul S. Sultan, "On Colonialism: The Twentieth-Century Career of a Political Category" Chair: Kalyani Ramnath
PANEL IV:
2:00 PM EST
SELF-DETERMINATION IN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
Udi Greenberg, "Self Determination and the Remaking of Christian Thought" Charlotte Walker-Said, "Church and State in the Struggle for Economic Rights and Human Dignity in Central Africa at the End of Empire" Daniel Rober, "Last Empire to Fall? Resolution 1514 and the Roman Catholic Church" Chair: Josiah Brownell
Program Saturday Nov. 13 PANEL V:
9:00 AM EST
THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION & DEVELOPMENT
Sara Lorenzini, "Activists and Dams: Colonial Legacies, Self-Determination and Development Agendas" Raymond Craib, "Selfish-Determination: Adventure Capitalists in the Era of Decolonization" Vivien Chang, "After Empire: The UN Economic Commission for Africa and an Alternative Approach to Development" Chair: David Engerman
PANEL VI:
10:10 AM EST
SPEAKING BACK TO THE UN
Alanna O'Malley, "The Invisible History of Self-Determination at the UN, 1960-1974" Jose Juan Perez Melendez, "Colonialism by its Name: Political Elites, Decolonization, & Puerto Rico" Lydia Walker, "Self-Determination without Sovereignty: Indigenous Claims-Making at the United Nations" Chair: Umut Özsu
PANEL VII:
11:35 AM EST
SELF-DETERMINATION IN THE GLOBAL NORTH
Brad Simpson, "Self-Determination Comes Home: Indigenous and SelfDetermination in the Global North" Ned Richardson-Little, "Between Lenin, Nazism, and Decolonization" Joel Wendland-Liu, "Before and After the UN Resolution: Radical SelfDetermination Struggles in the US" Chair: Tim Snyder
PANEL VIII:
1:00 PM EST
SELF-DETERMINATION, AGGRESSION & WAR
Boyd van Dijk, "Self-Determination and South Africa: The Global Legal Imaginations of Anti-Apartheid in Wartime" Ibrahim Khan, "Aggression and Self-Determination: Dilemmas for Anticolonial Thought" Leyla Drake, "Anti-Hypocrisy or Reconceptualization? Arguing Aggression at the 1967 Russell Tribunal" Chair: Charlotte Kiechel