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SUMMARY:Oxford Graduate Conference in Intellectual History
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DESCRIPTION:The Oxford Graduate Conference in Intellectual History will ta
 ke place on Thursday\, 28 May 2026 at The New Space\, New College\, Univer
 sity of Oxford. This year our theme is After Empire: Intellectual History 
 in a Post-Imperial World and the keynote speech will be given by Prof. Dan
 -el Padilla Peralta (Princeton). \n\nFor this year’s conference\, we inv
 ite reflection on intellectual life after empire. Should we think of it as
  a post-revolutionary cleaning up of bodies and rubble\, a fundamental dis
 orientation and dislocation of its former citizens and subjects\, or a hum
 ane liberation of the many from the hands of the few? Or have empires some
 times simply withered away\, disappeared by agreement\, or because they ca
 rried the seeds of their own destruction within them? All of these might c
 onstitute aspects of many post-imperial moments\, from Italy in the 5th ce
 ntury to Algeria in the 20th\, from the Andes to East Asia. The world afte
 r empire might also invite examination of the true nature of empire. Were 
 they reflections of the necessity of monopolies of force in our political 
 communities\, thus rendering any “post-imperial” world a utopian dream
 \, or should they serve as a warning of the overreach of coercion and powe
 r ultimately embodied in more inclusive and participative structures? Thes
 e and many more questions might be reflected in the papers at this year’
 s conference. We invite proposals that understand “empire” in the broa
 dest possible terms\, as political\, social\, cultural\, or intellectual s
 tructures\, from antiquity to our present moment\, and to join us in Oxfor
 d for a wide-ranging reflection on intellectual life in a post-imperial wo
 rld.\n\nProgram:\n\n9:15 – 9:30: Welcome and Introduction by our student
  led conference committee\n\n9:30 – 10:40: Panel I - Systems and Network
 s - Chaired by Mikayla Apicella (Reuben College\, University of Oxford)\n\
 nBlaine Patrick Werner\, Jr. (University of Virginia)\, 'Revisiting Curato
 rs of the Buddha (1995): Ambivalence\, Critical Agency\, and the Upside of
  Melancholy for Living in the Shadow of Empire'\n\nSimon Werner (European 
 University Institute)\, 'Transnational knowledge networks\, Cold War polit
 ics\, and the making of modernization theory in late colonial Africa'\n\n1
 1:00 – 12:00 Keynote Speech: Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton Universit
 y)\, 'Empires and Mass Enslavement: The Challenges for Intellectual Histor
 y'\n\n12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break\n\n13:30-14:40: Panel II - Structures 1:
  Social - Chaired by Philip AI-Taiee (University College\, University of O
 xford)\n\nNatalia Lanko (SciencesPo\, Paris)\, 'The Political Economy of t
 he Levant Company\, c.1800'\n\nDuanran Feng (The Queen's College\, Univers
 ity of Oxford)\, 'Dissembling empire in the Church:  Theological Differenc
 e in the Independence Movement of the West City church\, Beijing\, c. 1919
 -27'\n\n14:40 – 15:10 Coffee Break\n\n15:10 – 16:20: Panel III - Indiv
 iduals - Chaired by Yanxuan Zheng (Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford
 )\n\nSwetabja Mallik (University of Hyderabad)\, 'Orphaned by Empire: Inte
 llectual Formations and Post-Imperial Displacement'\n\nNilakshi Das (Insti
 tute of Historical Research)\, 'The Commonwealth and the politics of stude
 nt mobility as a post-imperial project\,1950-2000'\n\nStefano Glenn Torrig
 iotti (Scuola Normale Superiore)\, 'Neither Ruins nor Liberation: Muhammad
  Iqbal’s Payām-e Mashreq and the Post-Imperial Moment (1923)'\n\n16:30 
 –17:40: Panel IV - Structures 2: Political- Chaired by Robert Taylor (Ne
 w College\, University of Oxford)\n\nFloris de Ruiter (Leiden)\, 'Aurobind
 o’s Theory of Violence and the Limits of India’s Post-Imperial Statist
  Peace'\n\nFinian Smyth (Lady Margaret Hall\, University of Oxford)\, 'Str
 uctural Dependency\, Fiscal Rules\, and post-Keynesianism's Global Context
 '\n\nFor any questions or queries\, please get in touch with the convenors
  via oxford.ihconference@gmail.com
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LOCATION:New College\, Holywell Street Oxford
SPEAKER:Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton)
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