Full Programme
Please click here for the final programme.
For a full list of presentations and abstracts, please click here.
For keynote abstracts, please click here.
The programme is subject to revision. If you have registered and your name is not included please email the conference organisers as soon as possible.
Outline Programme
Sunday 10th July
The Drum, Birmingham
1700-2100
Showing of Robert...
Below is information on the location of the ‘Rethinking the Modern’ Conference, along with travel information and some accommodation options to suit most budgets.
Location
The conference will be held at:
The Birmingham Midland Institute
Margaret Street
Birmingham
B3 3BS
Venue Tel: 0121-236 3591
The conference venue can be viewed on this map
Travel
The conference venue is in Birmingham city centre
By...
11-12 July 2011, Birmingham Midland Institute
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor of Sociology within the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Her award-winning books include Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the...
Members of the organising team for the Rethinking the Modern conference taking place in July have taken part in a podcast discussion. The topic of the podcast, ‘Whose Island Story?’ is taken from the title of the plenary panel taking place at the conference.
The podcast topic is very much related to the inspiration behind the organisation of the conference. Namely, responding to recent government...
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Registration is now open: please click here.
Deadline for early registration is 20th May 2011.
Registrations received after this date will incur a £25 late payment fee.
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Monday + Tuesday: full conference including teas / coffees / light lunch
£100 BSA member / student /...
Conference organising committee member, Gurminder Bhambra, has been interviewed by the journal Theory, Culture and Society about the forthcoming conference ‘Rethinking the Modern: Colonialism, Empire and Slavery’. You can read the interview here
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and should be sent as an attachment to the following address: rtm.conf@warwick.ac.uk
The deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to Friday 4th March 2011.
If you have questions related to any particular stream, please email the stream coordinator – details below.
Reassessing Anti-Colonial and Liberation Movements
Stream Coordinator: Robbie Shilliam...
11-12 July 2011, Birmingham Midland Institute
**Deadline for receipt of abstracts has now passed. We will be notifying people in the week commencing 21 March whether their abstract has been accepted**
In recent times, a number of academics and commentators have sought to offer a revisionist history of colonialism that sees it as something that wasn’t as bad as some others make out, that actually made the...