Empires and Colonies

The workshop provides a forum for graduate students and faculty whose work engages with colonial and imperial studies. Temporally, the workshop spans the fifteenth century to the present, and geographically it includes colonial and imperial formations across the world. It provides an opportunity for participants to raise and consider methodological and theoretical questions regarding both imperialism and colonialism. Among the questions considered: How do metropoles and colonies interact and relate? How do these relationships shape the histories of the individuals, peoples, and societies within their influence? How did colonialism constitute and contribute to modernity? How do we account for and understand the creation of imperial and colonial subjectivities, and how did these change over time?