Allies and Exits: Local collaborations after rebellion and counterinsurgency, 1914-2014
ALLIES AND EXITS
Local collaborators after rebellion and counterinsurgency, 1914-2014
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Thursday 24 April 2014 Venue: Ramphal Building, R03/4
3.00 pm Registration, welcome and coffee
3.30 pm Panel 1 Chair: David M. Anderson (University of Warwick)
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‘Military auxiliaries: useful ‘savages’, martial races or revolutionary rebels?’Sibylle Scheipers (St Andrews University)
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‘Between wars: allies and violence in Ireland after the Anglo-Irish Treaty’Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)
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‘Out of Arabia: the fate of local forces allied with the British, 1916-76’Rob Johnson (All Souls, University of Oxford)
5.30 pm Plenary Lecture Venue: Ramphal Building, R03/4
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‘Toads and informers: how the British treated their collaborators during the Cyprus Emergency, 1955-59’David French (University College London)
7.00 pm Drinks, followed by dinner Venue: Scarman House
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Friday 25 April 2014 Venue: Seminar Room, Institute for Advanced Study, Milburn House
9.00 am Panel 2 Chair: Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)
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‘Britain and its local allies in South Arabia: between loyalty and betrayal’Thanos Petouris (SOAS London)
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‘Active neutrality? Portuguese policies during Angola’s transition to independence (1974/75)’Pedro Aires Oliveira (Universidade nova de Lisboa)
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‘South Africa’s Buffalo Battalion and the Border War, 1974-1994’David M. Anderson (University of Warwick) & Justin Pearce (University of Cambridge)
10.30 am Coffee break
11.00 am Panel 3 Chair: Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)
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‘“Collaboration is a very delicate concept”: state formation in West Java – Pasudan, 1947-1950’Roel Frakking (European University Institute, Florence)
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‘The Loyalist Peace: violence, dispossession, political authority and the exit from Kenya’David M. Anderson (University of Warwick)
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‘Allies and the exits: the end of French Algeria and its aftermaths’Martin Evans (University of Sussex)
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm Panel 4 Chair: Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)
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Delusions of Survival: US Deliberations on Support for South Vietnam during the 1975 'Final Offensive'Jeffrey Michaels (King’s College London)
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‘Danang’s Tiger Temple community after the liberation (Vietnam)’Heonik Kwon (Trinity College, University of Cambridge)
2.15 pm Panel 5 Chair: David M Anderson (University of Warwick)
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‘Ethiopia in Somalia: allies in the context of iterative intervention’Jason Mosley (African Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
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‘French intervention in Mali: framing allegiance and negotiating exit’Susanna Wing (Haverford College)
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‘Decentralising authoritarianism? The international intervention, the new “revolutionaries” and the involution of Post-Qadhafi LibyaMattia Toaldo (European Commission on Foreign Relations)
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‘After ISAF: partners and proxies in Afghanistan after 2014’Austin Long (Columbia University)
3.45pm Coffee break
4.15 pm Panel 6 Chair: David M. Anderson (University of Warwick)
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‘Iraq – the ambiguities of victory'
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‘After ISAF: partners and proxies in Afghanistan after 2014’
Austin Long (Columbia University)
5.30 pm Workshop Conclusion
We are grateful to the sponsors of this workshop:
Arts & Humanities Research Council
Global History & Culture Centre, University of Warwick
Institute for Advanced Study, University of Warwick