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12.45 1.45 pm Optional lunch
1.45 pm Word of welcome by the organisers
2.00 3.00 pm Opening plenary
Richard Drayton , University College London (UK), The Decolonisation of Europe: The Imperial Centres and the End of Empire
3.00 6.00 pm Decolonisation: Rethinking Global Networks Amanda Behm, University of York (UK), Magna Carta and the End of Empire
AnneIsabelle Richard, Leiden University (The Netherlands), Fearing the End of Colonial Empire, Advocating European Cooperation
4.20 pm Break (20 minutes)
Elizabeth Foster, Tufts University (USA), Antislavery, Catholic Charity, and the End of French Empire in SubSaharan Africa 1950¬1970
Mathilde von Billow, Glasgow University (UK), Algeria’s War of Independence, World Refugee Year, and the Re¬invention of Humanitarianism in West Germany, 1954¬1962
6.15 7.15 pm Dinner
7.30 pm Evening plenary
John M. MacKenzie, University of Lancaster (UK), The End of Empire and the Four Nations (or should that be Three?)
