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Creative Commons |
New & Jew, Zionism and the Quest for National Culture |
The Creation of Hebrew Music and its Origins |
Yaron Peleg |
06 Nov 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Michal Huss - You cannot really live (or die) here: ongoing struggles over cemeteries and housing in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957-2020 |
Debates over housing and cemeteries in Jaffa. |
Michal Huss |
30 Oct 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta |
This interview discusses the afterlives of coin collections from South Asia held in UK museums today. |
Robert Bracey, Shreya Gupta |
31 Jul 2024 |
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Collapsing Time with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz |
The 2022 Terra Lectures in American Art centre on Latinx art, with an emphasis on Chicanx (Mexican American) artists, and the theme of migration – of people, ideas, and artworks, from the seventeenth century to today. |
Charlene Villaseñor Black |
17 May 2022 |
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Violence |
Nesrine Badawi speaking on ‘Debating Militancy in the Modern World’ and Murad Idris speaking on ‘Theorizing Colonialism, Capitalism, and Violence in an Islamist Key.' |
Nesrine Badawi, Murad Idris, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami |
08 Apr 2022 |
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Colonialism, Enslavement and Resistance |
1612 - 1834 Founding of Bermuda and the Fight for Freedom, talk 1 |
Mike Jarvis |
25 Jan 2022 |
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A Tale of Two Women: Sally Bassett, Mary Prince and the True Story of Slavery in Bermuda |
Second talk on the 1612 - 1834 Founding of Bermuda and the Fight for Freedom panel, with ajala omodele. |
Ajala Omodele |
25 Jan 2022 |
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Introduction to 'Racialisation in (post)colonial Bermuda: Past and Present' |
Racialisation in (post)colonial Bermuda: Past and Present, talk 1. |
Kristy Warren |
24 Jan 2022 |
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Independence and Colonialism in the Western Sahara |
Piotr Schulkes, Helna Murphy, Hajar Meddah, and Felix Walker discuss the recent development in the Western Sahara, caused by America’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the territory. |
Piotr Schulkes, Helna Murphy, Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker |
06 Oct 2021 |
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Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies |
Durba Ghosh (Cornell University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 June 2021. |
Durba Ghosh |
17 Jun 2021 |
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Persian Cosmopolis and World Literature in Precolonial Marathi Literary Historiography |
Sachin Ketkar gives the second presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. |
Sachin Ketkar |
28 Apr 2021 |
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The Pitt River's Catamaran |
History DPhil student, Morgan Breene, contextualizes the catamaran displayed in the Pitt Rivers' Museum. Part of the Oxford and Empire series. |
Morgan Breene |
10 Mar 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: The Anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek |
For this podcast, we co-hosted Tim Allen of LSE with Oxford's Anthropology Department. |
Tim Allen |
30 Nov 2020 |
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Dr Ben Grant on 'Richard Francis Burton |
Dr Ben Grant, departmental lecturer in English and author of Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (Routledge, 2009) reflects on Richard Francis Burton's sojourn in Oxford in the 1840s. |
Ben Grant |
30 Nov 2020 |
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Dr Priya Atwal on 'Princesses Bamba and Catherine Duleep Singh at Oxford' |
Historian, Dr Priya Atwal, takes a look at the lives of some of the University of Oxford's first Indian students. |
Priya Atwal |
30 Nov 2020 |
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Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion |
Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities. |
Tade Thompson, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
30 Nov 2020 |
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Talking Afropean |
Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. |
Johny Pitts, Elleke Boehmer, Simukai Chigudu |
20 Nov 2020 |
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Live Event: On Being Unprepared (For Our Own Times) |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Decolonisation the Curriculum Week. |
Margaret MacMillan, Homi K. Bhabha |
13 Oct 2020 |
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The History of Magic |
What is magic, when did it begin, and does it still have a place in the modern world? Professor Chris Gosden discusses the long history of magic from the Ice Age, through antiquity, to the present. |
Chris Gosden |
29 Sep 2020 |
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Is Africa a Dissimilar System? Oxford Africa Society 2019 Annual Lecture Discussion |
The discussion after the lecture, with an international guest panel on decolonising education and reimagining the higher education space in Africa and the Diaspora. |
Running Grass, Sizwe Mkwanazi, Shaeera Kalla, Nompendulo Mkatshwa. |
17 May 2019 |
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Is Africa a Dissimilar System? Oxford Africa Society 2019 Annual Lecture |
The Oxford Africa Society will host an annual lecture delivered by the Director of the University of Oxford’s African Studies Centre and Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, Wale Adebanwi. |
Wale Adebanwi |
17 May 2019 |
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Decolonising African museums: the Africa perspective |
The debate on decolonising museums has been very lively across the gardens, libraries and museums in Oxford over the last few months. |
Fredrick Manthi |
15 Apr 2019 |
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Samraghni Bonnerjee presents, Envoy extraordinary: a study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to modern India. Vera Brittain (Allen and Unwin, 1965) |
Samraghni Bonnerjee gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Samraghni Bonnerjee |
19 Feb 2019 |
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Olivia Slater presents, Place in research: Theory, methodology, and methods. Eve Tuck and Marcia McKenzie (Routledge, 2014) |
Olivia Slater gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Olivia Slater |
19 Feb 2019 |
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Ushashi Dasgupta presents, Rajmohan’s Wife Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1864). |
Ushashi Dasgupta gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Ushashi Dasgupta |
19 Feb 2019 |
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Arun Sood presents, Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. Mungo, Park and James Rennell (W. Bulmer and Company, 1799). |
Arun Sood gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Arun Sood |
19 Feb 2019 |
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Discussion: How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Supriya Chaudhuri, and Afua Hirsch, discuss what a decolonial curriculum would look like, part of the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Supriya Chaudhuri |
19 Feb 2019 |
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How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Blue Weiss and Mia Liyanage, Common Ground Oxford, give a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2019. |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage |
19 Feb 2019 |
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How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim |
19 Feb 2019 |
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How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Supriya Chaudhuri, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
19 Feb 2019 |
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Joe Shaughnessy presents, Mine Boy Peter Abrahams (East African Publishers, 1946) |
Joe Shaughnessy gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Joe Shaughnessy |
19 Feb 2019 |
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Elsa Gomis presents, The Logic of Analogy: Slavery and the Contemporary Refugee. Yogita Goyal (Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 8(3), 543-546. 2017) |
Elsa Gomis gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Elsa Gomis |
19 Feb 2019 |
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Rachel Fox presents, Refugee tales David, Herd and Anna Pincus (Comma Press, 2016) |
Rachel Fox gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Rachel Fox |
19 Feb 2019 |
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Ethel Maqeda presents, The Book of Memory: A Novel by Petina Gappah (Macmillan, 2016) |
Ethel Maqeda gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Ethel Maqeda |
19 Feb 2019 |
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What is a decolonial curriculum soapbox? |
Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Elleke Boehmer |
19 Feb 2019 |
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Discussion: What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Kwame Dawes, Jok Madut Jok, Peter D Mcdonald and Anu Anand discuss What is a decolonial curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Kwame Dawes, Jok Madut Jok, Peter D McDonald, Anu Anand |
15 Feb 2019 |
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Peter D Mcdonald - What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Peter D Mcdonald, Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Peter D McDonald |
15 Feb 2019 |
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Jok Madut Jok - What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Jok Madut Jok, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Jok Madut Jok |
15 Feb 2019 |
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Kwame Dawes - What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Kwame Dawes, TORCH Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Kwame Dawes |
15 Feb 2019 |
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Marconi lecture 2018: Imperial Wave: how empire shaped the network of wireless in South Asia at the turn of the twentieth century |
Dr Medha Saxena (Delhi, and Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellow), gives the 2018 annual Marconi lecture. |
Medha Saxena |
03 Dec 2018 |
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Shashi Tharoor on Confronting the Colonial Present of the British Raj |
In conversation with Kira Huju from the Oxford Working Group on Colonialism, Indian Member of Parliament Dr Shashi Tharoor discusses the need to confront the living legacies of the British Raj in UK society and universities. |
Shashi Tharoor, Kira Huju |
14 Nov 2018 |
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Transactions: Revisiting how domination worked in colonial Africa |
ASC seminar by Florence Bernault (Sciences Po) |
Florence Bernault |
05 Nov 2018 |
43 |
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Literacy and Democracy: Transitional Justice in South Africa |
The paper explores the work of several intellectuals reflecting on South Africa’s transition to democracy, considering how the question of literacy precedes any discussion about literature and democracy. |
Carrol Clarkson |
03 Sep 2018 |
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Creative Commons |
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India |
Shashi Tharoor speaks at St Antony's College on 1 March 2017 |
Shashi Tharoor |
27 Mar 2018 |
45 |
Creative Commons |
A Zionist Passage to India? |
Arie Dubnov speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 18.10.2016 |
Arie Dubnov |
01 Jun 2017 |
46 |
Creative Commons |
Pakistan and the Late Colonial Crisis of Sovereignty |
David Gilmartin speaks at the Intellectual History for Pakistan workshop on March 1st, 2016 |
David Gilmartin |
21 Apr 2017 |
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Rethinking Easter Island’s Mysterious Past |
Professor Terry Hunt, University of Oregon, gives the ASC Annual Lecture on Easter Island. |
Terry Hunt |
11 May 2016 |
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Defamiliarizing India: Cosmopolitanism as a condition of aesthetic and political Survival |
Laetitia Zecchini discusses the cosmopolitanism of several post-independence Indian poets and artists. |
Laetitia Zecchini |
05 Apr 2016 |
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Cosmopolitanism and Empire |
Elleke Boehmer considers the cosmopolitan outlooks, experiences and values of Indian travellers to the west in the late 19th century. |
Elleke Boehmer |
05 Apr 2016 |
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Who are (or were) the Cosmopolitans? Thoughts from multilingual India |
Who are (or were) the Cosmopolitans? Thoughts from multilingual India |
Francesca Orsini |
05 Apr 2016 |
51 |
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Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire |
Elleke Boehmer discusses her new book with Megan Robb, Faisal Devji and Santanu Das |
Elleke Boehmer, Faisal Devji, Megan Robb, Santanu Das |
23 Nov 2015 |
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'Political Theory at the Margins' Panel 1: Responses to (Post-)Colonialism |
Part of the Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference, a conference that aims to explore themes and topics in political theory that resonate with contemporary political events and phenomena. |
Anna-Sophie Schönfelder, Simon Tabet, Puneet Dhaliwal, Ashwini Vasanthakumar |
16 Sep 2015 |
53 |
Creative Commons |
Postsocialist subject as a new other: global coloniality, border thinking and decolonial option |
Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2013: Rebordering: reflections in relation to (post)socialism |
Madina Tlostanova |
11 Mar 2014 |
54 |
Creative Commons |
What are friends for? Friendship and Public life in the post colony: African Studies Centre Annual Lecture 2013 |
Wale Adebanwi, Associate Professor, African American and African Studies, University of California-Davies, gives the 2013 African Studies Annual Lecture. |
Wale Adebanwi |
13 Aug 2013 |
55 |
Creative Commons |
Achebe and the African Writers Series |
A special seminar held at the Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar at Wadham College on 2nd May 2013. |
James Currey, Becky Ayebia Clarke, Ruth Bush, Asha Rogers |
10 Jul 2013 |
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The Village in the Jungle as colonial memoir: Woolf writing home |
Victoria Glendinning (biographer of Leonard Woolf) Introduced by Hermione Lee (biographer of Virginia Woolf) gives the closing plenary for the The Leonard Woolf Symposium. |
Victoria Glendinning, Hermione Lee |
24 Jun 2013 |
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The Village in the Jungle Roundtable |
A discussion of key passages from Leonard (and possibly Virginia) Woolf, led by Hermione Lee (Oxford), Anna Snaith (KCL), Elleke Boehmer (Oxford), David Trotter (Cambridge), Susheila Nasta (OU), Nisha Manocha (Wolfson). |
Hermione Lee, Anna Snaith, Elleke Boehmer, David Trotter |
24 Jun 2013 |
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Indigenous Tradition and the Western Imagination: Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle |
Chandani Lokuge (Monash University, Australia) gives the opening keynote talk for the Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle symposium. |
Chandani Lokuge |
24 Jun 2013 |
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'The Village in the Jungle' as colonial memoir: Woolf writing home |
Victoria Glendinning, biographer of Leonard Woolf, offers her insights from extensive archival research into the life of Woolf in Ceylon and Britain. |
Victoria Glendinning |
18 Jun 2013 |
60 |
Creative Commons |
Kipling, the Elton John of his age? |
Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire. |
Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies |
08 Oct 2012 |
61 |
Creative Commons |
Colonial toleration and the practise of British state multiculturalism |
Zaki Nahaboo, DPhil student at the Open University, delivers a talk for the Inaugural Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory. The conference theme was Political Theory and the Liberal Tradition. |
Zaki Nahaboo |
04 Oct 2012 |
62 |
Creative Commons |
The Constitutional Accommodation of National Pluralism in Post War Sri Lanka: The Lessons for the Present from Sri Lanka's Pre-Colonial Past |
Asanga!Weikala, PhD Candidate, School of Law, University of Edinburgh gives a talk for the OTJR trinity term 2012 seminar series. |
Asanga Weikala |
06 Jun 2012 |
63 |
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Civilization and the Poetics of Slavery |
Robbie Shilliam, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, gives a talk on 19th Jan 2012 for the Historical Materialism and International Relations seminar series. |
Robbie Shilliam |
23 Feb 2012 |
64 |
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Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth |
Catherine Brown, Lecturer in English Literature, compares West Indian writers Derek Walcott and Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul on their attitudes towards history and myth. |
Catherine Brown |
26 Oct 2011 |
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Provisional Rights and Past Injustice |
Professor Anna Stilz (Princeton University) gives a paper for the Kant and Colonialism conference held at Nuffield College, Oxford. Introduced by Dr Reidar Maliks. |
Anna Stilz |
04 Mar 2011 |
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World trade as the guarantee for perpetual peace? |
On the value and consistency of Kant's theory of 'fair trade'. Liesbet Vanhaute (University of Antwerp) gives a talk for the Kant ad Colonialism Conferece held at Nuffield college, Oxford. Introduced by Dr. Isaac Nakhimovsky. |
Liesbet Vanhaute |
04 Mar 2011 |
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Kant on race and economic globalization: On just trade and free trade |
Dr Pauline Kleingeld (University of Leiden) gives a paper for the 2010 Kant and Colonialism Conference held at Nuffield College, Oxford. Introduced by Dr Tomothy Walingore. |
Pauline Kleingeld |
04 Mar 2011 |
68 |
Creative Commons |
Provisional acquisition as 'true acquisition', Kant's argument against colonialism |
Fourth presentation from the Kant and Colonialism conference held in University of Oxford in October 2010. |
Alice Walla |
22 Feb 2011 |
69 |
Creative Commons |
Colonialism in Kant's Political Philosophy |
Third presentation from the Kant and Colonialism conference held in University of Oxford in October 2010. |
Howard Williams |
22 Feb 2011 |
70 |
Creative Commons |
Kant's Conceptions of Colonialism, Free Trade, and Cosmopolitical Providence |
Kant's Conceptions of Colonialism, Free Trade, and Cosmopolitical Providence from a Point of View of a History of Ideas: their Origins in Libanius, Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius: Part of the Kant and Colonialism Conference held in October 2010. |
Johannes Thumfart |
22 Feb 2011 |
71 |
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World citizenship and global connections in Enlightenment political thought |
First presentation from the Kant and Colonialism conference held in University of Oxford in October 2010. |
Sankar Muthu |
22 Feb 2011 |
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Islam, the ‘Originaires’ and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal |
Mamadou Diouf from the University of Columbia gives the 2009 African Studies Annual Lecture on the influence of Islam in Post-Colonial Africa, in particular, the public spaces of the former French Colonial City of St Louis in Senegal. |
Mamadou Diouf |
16 Jun 2009 |