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.

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