Coercive Networks workshop, University of Cambridge, 9 May 2008

[Miss Taylor C Sherman]

Below is the final programme for the Coercive Networks
Workshop which will be held Friday, 9 May at Robinson
College, University of Cambridge.

'COERCIVE NETWORKS': VIOLENCE, PUNISHMENT AND THE
COLONIAL CONDITION

This one-day workshop aims to investigate the
relationship between strategies of violence, the law
and governance in the colonial and postcolonial world.

PROGRAMME

9.00-10.00 Registration & Welcome

10.00-11.30 Panel 1: Colonial policing and state
violence

Alois Maderspacher, University of Cambridge
'Colonial violence in German Cameroon, 1884-1914'

Joel Glasman, University of Leipzig 'The impossible
police: colonial
repression and bureaucratization of the state in
French Togo (1930s-1950s)'

Marieke Bloembergen, Utrecht University 'Not to be
laughed at: police
violence in the Netherlands-Indies in the 1930s'

Discussant: Taylor Sherman, Royal Holloway, University
of London

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

11.45-12.45 Panel 2: Alternative forms of
Incarceration

Jonathan Saha, SOAS
'Finding and confining the "mad" in nineteenth-century
British Burma'

Felicia Yap, University of Cambridge 'War and the
Colonial Condition: The
Governing of Colonial Societies in Captivity'

Discussant: Clare Anderson, University of Warwick

12.45.-14.00 Lunch (Sandwich lunch provided for
speakers and chairs)

14.00-15.30 Panel 3: Violence and exceptionalism

Tom Lloyd, University of Edinburgh
'State of Exception': Re-thinking the Kenyan Emergency
(c.1952-1960)

Flora Sapio, Lund University
'Torture and deterrence in modern China'

Welat Zeydanlyoolu, University of Cambridge 'State
coercion in a
"non-colonial" context: nation-building, Turkification
and torture in
modern Turkey'

Discussant: Stacey Hynd, Wolfson College, University
of Cambridge

15.30 - 15.45 Coffee Break

15.45-17.15 Panel 4: Representations of violence

Esme Cleall, UCL 'Witnessing violence, and the
representation of the
colonial: British missionaries and the spectacle of
conflict'

Rachel Johnson, University of Sheffield
'Recording Apartheid violence: South African case
studies'

Taylor C. Sherman, Royal Holloway University of London
'State violence and nationalist politics in 20th
century India'

Discussant: Stacey Hynd, Wolfson College, University
of Cambridge

17.15 - 18.00 Discussion and Closing Remarks

This event is generously sponsored by the G. M.
Trevelyan Fund, Faculty of History, University of
Cambridge.

--
Dr. Taylor C. Sherman
Faculty of History
Royal Holloway University of London

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