event
Gender Centre
Wednesday
22
May
The African Library, by Yinka Shonibare

Remeasuring Self and Society after Empire: The Human Sciences in Decolonization

, - ,

Maison de la paix

Add to Calendar

 

Wednesday 22 May 2024

09.15-9.30
Welcome and Introduction

Panel I: Conjecturing Spaces (room C1, petal 5)

Chair: Amalia Ribi-Forclaz (Geneva Graduate Institute)

09.30–11.00

  • Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Florida): Psy Talk and the Social Sciences in Two Congolese Spaces, 1940s-1970s.
  • Carolyn Biltoft (Geneva Graduate Institute): Systemic Deconstructions and Reconstructions: Psychiatry, Postmodernism, and Global Holism after Decolonization.

11.00–11.15 Coffee Break

11.15–12.45

  • Allison Sanders (Institut des mondes africains): Grey Areas: Researchers between France and Africa at Decolonization.
  • Nana Osei Quarshie (Yale University): Political Lunacy and the Making of Independent Ghana.

12.45-14.15 Lunch

 

Panel II: Redefining Social Categories (room C1, petal 5)

Chair: Gopalan Balachandran (Geneva Graduate Institute)

14.15–15.45

  • Zine Magubane (Boston College): W.E.B DuBois and Pan-Africanism: The Impact of Decolonization on His Sociological Imagination.
  • Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia): Follow the Leader, Not the Elite: Authority and the Human Sciences in the Age of Decolonization.

15.45–16.15 Coffee Break

16.15-17.45

  • Ishita Pande (Queen’s University, Kingston): De/Colonizing Sexology: Childhood, the Sciences of Homosexuality, and the Imagination of Hindu India.
  • Anne Schult (Washington University in St Louis): European Refugees at the End of Empire.

18.15-19.30 Keynote lecture (Auditorium A2, petal 2)

Helen Tilley (Northwestern University): "Thinking with Blind Men and Elephants: A Dialogue on Personhood, Empires, and Unknowable Things"

 

Thursday, 23 May 2024

Panel III: Sciences as Shifting Fields (room C1, petal 5)

Chair: Rémy Amouroux (Université de Lausanne)

9.30–11.00

  • Damiano Matasci (Université de Genève): A Shared Knowledge? Human Sciences and Inter-imperial Cooperation in Late Colonial Africa.
  • Ian Merkel (University of Groningen): The Human Sciences at the Semi periphery: National Autonomy, North Atlantic Collaborations, and Budding Global South Visions in Postwar Latin America.

11.00-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.45

  • Joshua Klein (Geneva Graduate Institute): From the Field to the Self: French Anthropology, Social Psychiatry and the Ambiguous Study of Acculturation in the Age of Decolonization, 1950–1980.
  • Sebastián Gil-Riaño (University of Pennsylvania): From “Cultural Change” to “Deculturation”: Making and Molding Cold War Violence in Paraguay during the 1970s.

12.45–14.15 Lunch

Panel IV: Registering Subjectivity (room C1,petal 5)

Chair: Nicole Bourbonnais (Geneva Graduate Institute)

14.15-15.45

  • Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah (Geneva Graduate Institute): Peering into Intimate Spaces: Psy Scientists and their Observations of Child Rearing Practices in Uganda (1940-1970s)
  • Leighan Renaud (University of Bristol): Re-Mapping Family Trees in Contemporary Caribbean Literature

15.45-16.15 Coffee Break

16.15–17.45

  • Richard Phillips (University of Sheffield): Adventure After Empire: Decolonizing Popular Geographies
  • Rosa Eidelpes (Universität Wien): Ethnoboom, the Project of an “Alternative Ethnology” and Self-Alienation, or: Decolonizing the European Subject?

 

Friday 24 May 2024

Panel V: Universality, Particularity (room C1, petal 5)

Chair: David Robertson (University of Oxford)

09.30-11.00

  • Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford): From Abeokuta to the World: African Psychiatry and the Struggle for Universality in the Period of Decolonization
  • Mischa Suter (Geneva Graduate Institute): Psychoanalysis, Psychosis and Racism between West Africa and Western Europe in the 1960s

11.00-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.30

Concluding Discussion

12.30: End of Conference – Snacks/Lunch bags

 

This event is organised by the Gender Centre as part of the research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on Decolonising the Psyche: The Politics of Ethnopsychology, 1930–1980.

Swiss National Science Foundation

 

Picture: The African Library, by Yinka Shonibare @ Lois GoBe | Shutterstock

REGISTER TO ATTEND THIS EVENT IN PERSON AT THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE (Room C1 or Auditorium A2):

Disclaimer

This event may be filmed, recorded and/or photographed on behalf of the Geneva Graduate Institute. The Institute may use these recordings and photographs for internal and external communications for information, teaching and research purposes, and/or promotion and illustration through its various media channels (website, social media, newsletters).

By participating in this event, you are agreeing to the possibility of appearing in the aforementioned films, recordings and photographs, and their subsequent use by the Institute.

For further information, please consult our privacy policy, our FAQ or contact us directly: events@graduateinstitute.ch.