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The Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group organises and convenes research events every year and also provides support and part-funding for collaborative symposia and conferences. Members of the group work with scholars and creative writers, and play an active part in promoting contemporary writing dealing with multi-ethnicities, colonial and postcolonial histories and postcolonial diaspora communities in the United Kingdom. The Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group has a long-standing collaborative relationship with the Institute of English Studies and details of past events can be viewed here.

Jan 12

Decolonisation in context(s)

Friday, January 12, 2024 - 10:00 to 16:30

Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Within the first decade of decolonisation, prominent anti-colonial thinkers, such as C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney, swiftly registered that freedom from colonial rule brought complex new challenges. As the euphoria of independence alternated with residual forms of colonialism and emergent forms of neo-colonialism, so intellectuals in the new nations debated how to break definitively with the past and forge humane postcolonial futures.This colloquium brings together scholars from different disciplines interested in (re-)investigating the moment of decolonisation and the first decade of freedom from colonial rule. 

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Alex Tickell
Department of English
The Open University
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