Trauma of De-Colonization Workshop

PROGRAM

All sessions will be held at 210 Prospect Street, Room 203, New Haven, CT.

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017
9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 11:00

Plenary Session: Theoretical Framework

Ron Eyerman, Yale University & Giuseppe Sciortino, University of Trento

11:00 - 12:00

Session I: Akiko Hashimoto, Portland State University

Narratives of Japan’s Decolonization and Repatriation from Manchuria After 1945

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00

Session II: Sung Choi, Bentley College

The French Case: Decolonizing Trauma in Pied-Noir Collective Narratives

2:00 - 2:30 Coffee/Tea/Snack
2:30 - 3:30

Session III: Rui Pena Pires, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology,University Institute of Lisbon

Trauma and the Portuguese Repatriation (co-authors: Morgane Delaunay & Joao Peixoto)

4:00 - 6:30 Reception
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee/Tea
10:30 - 11:30

Session IV: Gert Oostindie, Leiden University

Trauma and the Dutch Decolonization War in Indonesia, 1945-1949

11:30 - 12:30

Session V: Pamela Ballinger, University of Michigan

An Unexceptional Exceptionalism? Italian Decolonization and Settler Returns

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Session VI: Rosario Giordano
2:30 - 3:00 Coffee break
3:00 - 4:30 Wrap-up discussion
6:30 - 8:30 Dinner: Thali Restaurant