Commentators / moderators: Rémy Amouroux (Université de Lausanne), Ana Antić (University of Copenhagen)
Wednesday 22 May 2024
09.15-9.30
Welcome and Introduction
Panel I: Conjecturing Spaces (room C1)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
09.30-11.00
- Omnia El Shakry (Yale University): Freud in Translation: Three Essays, a Survey, and a Group
- Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford): From Abeokuta to the World: African Psychiatry and the Struggle for Universality in the Period of Decolonization
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.00
- Mischa Suter (Geneva Graduate Institute): Psychoanalysis, Psychosis and Racism between West Africa and Western Europe in the 1960s
12.00–12.30
Concluding Discussion
12.30: End of Conference – Snacks/Lunch
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
