After 1948: Realignments in Politics and Culture in Chicago

After 1948: Realignments in Politics and Culture

Location:
The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637

Note:
[Download conference schedule here, PDF, 105 KB]

Contact Name:
Susan Gooding

Contact E-mail:
ssg4@uchicago.edu

Contact Phone:
773-702-8274

Description:
[Download conference schedule here, PDF, 105 KB]

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Timothy Mitchell, "Economentality: How the Future Entered Government"

PANELS: Disalignments and the Postwar Left • Realignments in South Asia • Politics Disaligned: Civil Rights, Anticolonial, and Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Case of Bayard Rustin • Africa's Late Colonialism • Invisible Colonies? Legality, (Neo-) Colonialism, and Disalignment in the Americas during the Post-War Era • Things to Come - Realignments and Aspirations: The Circulation of Jazz after 1948 • Roundtable and Reception: Legacies: "Where Do We Go From Here?" (M.L. King, Jr.)

SPEAKERS: Adam Ashforth, "South Africa, 1948: Apartheid in the twilight of Empire" | Mona Bhan, "Realignments in Kashmir" | Fred Cooper, "French Africa, 1947-48: Reform, violence, and uncertainty in a colonial situation" | Michael Dawson, "The Sundering: The Dis-Entangling of Black Radical Movements and Post-World War II Degenerate Politics in the U.S." | Danielle Fosler-Lussier, "Postwar Aspirations and State Support for Jazz: Writing the History of 'the Jazz Tours'" | Laura Gotkowitz, "Democracy and Decolonization in Bolivia, "around 1948" and Today" | Travis Jackson, "Beyond Playing the Changes: Jazz Strategies, Technologies, and Experiments around and after 1948" | Nancy Kates, Independent Documentary Filmmaker | John Kelly, "Nehru, the Nation-State and Bandung: Zhou, Highland Asia, and the Actual Politics of Decolonization" | Rochona Majumdar, "Decolonization and Film Cultures: An Indian Perspective" | Efren Rivera-Ramos, "Colonial Alignments: Puerto Rico after 1948"

FILM SCREENING: "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin"*
(*film screening is prior, on Wednesday, April 25)

Categories: Education | Art Galleries & Exhibits | Literary & Books | University & Alumni | Politics & Activism

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