Institute of Advanced Studies

History Lecture Series


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Drawing of a colonial Soldier surrounded by ethnic people

History Series: Colonial Conquest, Violent Settlement:

Re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism

August - October 2008

  • All lectures will be held in Geography Lecture Theatre 1
  • Lectures are free and open to the public
  • Lectures start at 6pm
  • No RSVP is necessary

History Series: Re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism

August
6 August Jeremy Martens (UWA):Populism, mob violence and colonial governance in South Africa and Australia
13 August Julie Evans (University of Melbourne): Law, legitimacy and the frontier
20 August Philip Murphy (Reading University, UK): Acceptable Levels? The threat and use of violence in British Central Africa, 1945-65
27 August Hélène Jaccomard (UWA): The end of French Colonialism: The Algerian War
September
3 September Giuseppe Finaldi (UWA): Massacres and Modernity: Italian colonialism in Ethiopia
10 September Mark Edele (UWA): Nationalities-Socialism? The Soviet Union as a multi-ethnic empire
17 September Matthew Fitzpatrick (Flinders University): The Pre-History of the Holocaust?: Conquest, Genocide and German Colonialism
24 September Susie Protschky (UWA): Race and postcolonial identity: Remembering privileged communities from the former Netherlands Indies
October
1 October Norman Etherington (UWA): The 21st Century American Empire