9.00 am ­ Noon Processes of Decolonisation
Kathleen (Leen) Gyssels, Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium), Bringing the “Tirailleur sénégalais” into the Francophone Literary Frame: The Black Experience of the Second World War in French­Caribbean Literature, Léon Damas to Edouard Glissant

Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Universiteit van Amsterdam (The Netherlands), “Partly Semantic, Partly Substantial”: The Shifting Debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands, 1950¬1962
10.20 am Break (20 minutes)
Giuseppe Finaldi, University of Western Australia, Italy’s Brave New Post­imperial World and the “Mogadishu Massacre” of January 1948
Mo Moulton, University of Birmingham (UK), Ireland and Decolonisation: A Model or a Limit Case?
11.45 Midday plenary
Stuart Ward, Københavns Universitet (Denmark), Spring 1968 and the Embers of Empire
12.45¬1.45 pm Lunch
2.00 ­ 6.00 pm Material Cultures of Decolonisation
Berny Sèbe, University of Birmingham (UK), Fragments and Figments of Empire: Desert Memories in Britain and in France after 1960
Idesbald Goddeeris, KU Leuven (Belgium), The Limits of the Counter­voice: Postcolonial Criticism in Belgian Theater and TV in the 1970s and 1980s
Barbara Spadaro, University of Bristol (UK), Transnational Ties, Transcultural Belonging, and Italian Citizenship: Roberto Nunes Vais’ Memories of Libya
3.50 pm Break (25 minutes)
4.15 ­ 6.00 pm Material Cultures of Decolonisation (continued)
Matthew Stanard, Berry College (USA), Some ABCs of Post­Colony Belgium: Africana, Belgian Collections, and the Decolonization Experience
Chris Jeppesen , University College London (UK), The Elephant Not in the Room: Nostalgia, Absence and the Memory of Empire
Sarah Longair, University of Lincoln (UK), Domestic Museums of Decolonisation? Objects, Officials and Making “Home” in Britain
6.15 pm Dinner

7.30 pm Evening plenary
Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool (UK), Fragments of Empire: Ephemera and the Dynamics of Colonial Memory