Upcoming IRNPPC Events
WORKSHOP
Postcolonial Print Cultures: Exhibition-Making, Museography and Textual/Visual Interactions
The next workshop of the International Research Network on Postcolonial Print Cultures (IRNPPC) will be in Paris, France on September 18-19, 2025. Read more here!
How are colonial and postcolonial print ephemera, media and literatures staged and displayed, put to use, consumed and repurposed/revalued/re-curated in museums and exhibition spaces today, beyond their simple documentary function/status – and to what means / ends? In this workshop we would like to explore the practices, forms and uses of colonial/postcolonial print from the Global South in the colonial exhibitions and world fairs of the turn of the 19th century, up to our postcolonial/decolonial present, and explore how the interaction of textual and visual registers are an integral part of exhibition-making and postcolonial print cultures.
Confirmed Participants (in alphabetical order):
Ada Ackerman (CNRS), Rahaab Allana (Alkazi Foundation), Titas De Sarkar (UChicago), Toral Gajarawala (NYU), Adom Getachew (UChicago), Margaux Lavernhe (EHESS), Marc Maillot (ISAC/UChicago), Josephine McDonagh (UChicago), Nontobeko Ntombela (Wits University), Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University), Devika Singh (The Courtauld Institute), Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University), Sanjukta Sunderason (University of Amsterdam), Hayley Toth (Newcastle University), Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS-UChicago)
We are thrilled to have Chana Morgenstern (University of Cambridge) come talk to us about ‘Revolutionary Papers’, the international research collaboration exploring the impact of 20th century anticolonial and postcolonial periodicals which she co-directs.
Date: Friday, October 3rd, 2025
Time: 9AM CT/ 3PM GMT / 7.30PM IST
Zoom Link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/3326833765?pwd=d3kyeVF3MmVkVUhDRzgzdlFVbDFCQT09&omn=97542531134
Meeting ID: 332 683 3765
Passcode: 688923
Bertho, Elara. Un Couple Panafricain: Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael en Guinée. Ròt-Brò-Krik, 2025.
Gandhi, Supriya. “Recovering a Hindu Tradition: Mughal Indology, Urdu Print Publics, and Modern Scriptural Hinduism”. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. January, 2025.
Prasad, Ritika and Corinna Zeltsman. Introduction: Rethinking Colonial Print Through Practices. Journal of Social History, Volume 58, Issue 2, Winter 2024.
Bhadury, Poushali. “Reframing Shakespeare in Postcolonial Bengali Children’s Literature: Adaptation Strategies in Dev Sahitya Kutir’s Anubad Series”. Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, Vol 16, No. 1 (2024).
Three fully funded PhD fellowships in Literary Studies at the University of Brussels (VUB). As part of a new ERC project, AFROPRESS, the three successful students are expected to carry out research on magazine cultures in Congo, Madagascar and South Africa (1918-68). For information and questions, please contact Cedric Van Dijck at cedric.van.dijck@vub.be.Application Deadline: May 30, 2025. More details can be found here.
Project Team of the ERC-Consolidator Grant project “Entangled Freedoms: Decolonial Modernisms as Transnational Relations of Resistance, 1940s-1980s,” led by Dr. Sanjukta Sunderason and located within the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the Department of Arts and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. You will be joining the “Entangled Freedoms” Project Team that has 2 PhDs and will welcome 3 Postdoctoral scholars. Application Deadline: June 1, 2025.
Postdoctoral Profile 1:
“Visual Art and Third-World Solidarities in 20th-Century Liberation Movements in the Middle East” to study archives of Arab liberation movements and “Third World solidarity” movements from the Middle-East.
Postdoctoral Profile 2:
“Visual Art and Socialist Thought in 20th-Century African Liberation Movements”. Alongside Pan-Africanism and African Socialism, the candidate is free to bring in specialisation in at least one or any two of the following contexts between 1950s-80s: Senegal (west Africa), Tanzania (east Africa), Angola and Mozambique (Southern Africa).
Une Histoire Panafricaine Par Armand Gauz Et Elara BerthoIn 1968, the most famous African singer in the world and the leader of the Black Power movement decided to settle in Guinea. From their installation in Conakry begins a whole new story — much less known and much less told than their American trajectories. As soon as they come out of the New York imperial radars, it’s as if they disappeared from official stories. However, Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael spent several decades in Guinea and redoubled their activity. Both, one through song, the other through political action, put themselves at the service of Sékou Touré, Kwame Nkrumah and the construction of concrete Pan-Africanism.
This performed, two-voice conference aims to make these two intensely engaged militant voices heard again. From Conakry to Algiers, Lagos, Tripoli, but also New York: it is a whole network of intellectual and artistic connections, in and from Africa, that we intend to revive.
ACLA Annual Meeting, 2025Virtual seminar panel “Dissident Writing, the Cold War, and the Decolonizing World”Organizers: Peter Kalliney, Jini Kim Watson
Dates: May 29th – June 1, 2025
Des/ordres muséaux, Des/ordres épistémiques. Documenter des tensions
Date: June 25, 2025
Time: 8:45AM – 4.30pm
Venue: Ecole normale supérieure, Paris-PSL, Amphitheatre Dussane (English & French) and online. Find the zoom link here; ID: 921 0808 6025
Organizers: Joël Zouna, Albert Constant-Piot
Based on specific case studies of geocultural differences around the world, the workshop aims to study the tensions, hiatus, frictions between museum institutions, the epistemes they perform and the political-economic contexts that determine them. Contact to register:
aconstantpiot(at)gmail.com / joel.zouna.touomou(at)ens.psl.eu
Anticolonial/Decolonial Text and Print in the Cold War Era: Lives and Afterlives