Empire, colonialism, and anticolonialism have been central drivers of world history for the past centuries, and they continue to shape present day realities. From ongoing practices of settler colonialism, through to climate colonialism, economic imperialism, and resurgent far-right nationalisms drawing upon imageries of empire, it seems to be obvious that ‘empire’ and ‘colonialism’ have never gone away. At the same time, we are in a moment of history where we are also witnessing a proliferation of resistance against empire and colonialism: from the halls of universities (as seen in the Palestine encampments) through to frontline battles against settlers, militarized violence, and nefarious capital.

Different disciplines across the arts, humanities, and social sciences have highlighted different dimensions of these processes of colonialism and anti-colonialism. At this one-day conference, we hope to put these different disciplines in conversation with one another, taking the strongest tools from different disciplines, such that we can produce a truly interdisciplinary understanding of empire, colonialism, anti-colonialism, and decolonization. We will conclude the event by producing a conference manifesto.

Registration fee includes refreshments.

The full programme is available at: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47272/ 

This two-day conference and hands-on workshop invites scholars and specialists in Religious Studies, visual and material culture, and Medieval to Modern collections analysis to tackle Victorian-era bible production, material exchanges and book transliteration culture. State of the field presentations will explore key topics including: global communication, empire and imperial projects, knowledge and technology and more with the goal of opening inquiry in the Bible Society Collections. Featured activities will include panels and roundtable discussions, library and museum technical experts and curators tied to BFBS materials. This event seeks to explore, reveal and protect this collection’s materials in a tangible way for future research.

Registration fee includes refreshments.

The full programme is available at: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47443/