Previous Events

Friday, January 12, 2024 - 10:00 to 16:30

Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Within the first decade of decolonisation, prominent anti-colonial thinkers, such as C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney, swiftly registered that freedom from colonial rule brought complex new challenges. As the euphoria of independence alternated with residual forms of colonialism and em...

Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 19:30 to 20:45

Online

British Library panel discussion ’The Chinese in Britain: A Long History’. This event is part of the 'Chinese and British: Exploring Communities and Culture’ exhibition. 

Monday, February 13, 2023 - 19:30 to 20:45

Online

The British Library panel discussion ’The British Empire and the Chinese Diaspora’. This is event is part of the 'Chinese and British: Exploring Communities and Culture’ exhibition. 

Saturday, December 17, 2022 - 10:00 to Sunday, December 18, 2022 - 16:00

Online

The conference will be themed around new research on ‘Chinese Britain’ with a focus on the culture and history of East and Southeast Asian and Chinese migrant and diasporic communities in Britain.

Wednesday, September 28, 2022 - 10:00 to 15:00

Alex Tickell and David Johnson will convene a postgraduate conference with colleagues at the University of Southampton, where two of our postgraduates, Tom Probert and Anne Wetherilt, will give presentations.

Saturday, July 2, 2022 - 10:00 to 16:00

University of Bristol

As part of the conference, PGLRG Postgraduate students Sophie Montebello and Anita Schwartz will present papers.

Monday, April 25, 2022 - 10:45 to 15:00

Costa Prize winning poet Hannah Lowe will be in (online) conversation with Jane Yeh, as part of the British Chinese Studies Network’s creative writing series. 

Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:00

Online, via Zoom

We are delighted to invite you to a webinar celebrating the launch of 'What is Artificial Intelligence?'. As the title suggests, the book engages with this question by putting two very different standpoints into conversation.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:30

via Zoom

Focusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance: the African National Congres...

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:30

Online

​This will be an informal opportunity to outline the work of the network and to focus our critical discussion a little in a reading of a chapter by Diana Yeh titled "The Cultural Politics of In/Visibility: Contesting 'British Chineseness' in the Arts". 

Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 09:00 to Friday, July 10, 2020 - 17:00

Online

Keynote: Dr Matthew Whittle. The PGLRG collaborated with the Ferguson Centre in July 2020 on an interdisciplinary conference on ‘Empire and Decolonisation’. Convened by Alex Tickell and John Slight, the conference was held online

Friday, June 29, 2018 - 09:45 to 19:45

Citizenship in the postcolonial world has been the subject of extensive research and theory in the social sciences over the last two decades. While research to date has been dominated by the discursive enunciation of citizenship in relation to nation, community and religion, the most innovative rece...

Friday, June 22, 2018 - 00:00 to 00:00

The Open University, Camden, London

Central to this symposium will be the colonial and postcolonial history of the state-led provision of potable water, clean air, housing, transport, education, waste-collection, communications, and educational and health services.

Saturday, June 2, 2018 - 00:00 to 00:00

University of Sussex.

The Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group, with University of Sussex colleagues, is hosting a one-day postgraduate CHASE-sponsored workshop on the theme of the role of the critic. Students will give short presentations in response to the theme, and reflect on their own critical methodol...

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 00:00 to 00:00

IES, Senate House, University of London.

Guest Lecture: Priya Joshi. This presentation draws on comparative research from nineteenth-century colonial archives and twenty-first-century publishing in India, the UK, the US and Nigeria.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - 00:00 to 00:00

City University, Hong Kong.

Workshop 2: These workshops explore the history and multiple legacies of the creative literary cultures of Anglophone Southeast and East Asia. 

Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - 00:00 to 00:00

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

Workshop 1. These workshops explore the history and multiple legacies of the creative literary cultures of Anglophone Southeast and East Asia.

Friday, October 20, 2017 - 00:00 to 00:00

The Open University, Camden, London.

This one-day symposium, a collaboration between the Open University and the University of Exeter, seeks to remap global English fiction (dominated by neighbouring South Asia) and draw fresh attention to the dynamic colonial literary cultures and postcolonial, globalising futures of Malaysian and Sin...

Thursday, December 1, 2016 - 00:00 to 00:00

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Convened by Alex Tickell, this plenary panel at the ' East/West' conference at Universiti Malaya (led by Prof. Sharmani Gabriel) brought together contributors to the forthcoming Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 10: The Novel in South and South East Asia to discuss the...

Sunday, July 3, 2016 - 00:00 to 00:00

Institute of English Studies, Senate House

Book Launch

Saturday, June 4, 2016 - 00:00 to 00:00

University of Kent

The Postcolonial Literatures Research Group, with University of Kent colleagues, is hosting a one-day postgraduate Chase-sponsored workshop on the theme of empire and theory. Students will give short presentations in response to the theme, and there will be opportunity for discussion and networking....

Thursday, July 23, 2015 - 00:00 to 00:00

The Open University in London

Contemporary cultural perspectives on Britain and Jews often overlap in discourses about utopia and dystopia. The Postcolonial Literatures Research group in collaboration with the University of Bangor and the University of Winchester hosted a one-day conference. 

Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 00:00 to 00:00

The River Room, Strand Campus, King’s College London

Workshop 1:‘Empire and Post-Empire in the Global City’