Strategies of imperial control in arid and semi-arid environments
- Location
- All Souls College, Old Library, Oxford
- Dates
- Saturday 12 October 2013 (09:00-17:30)
Workshop funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of England and All Souls College, Oxford, in partnership with the Maison française d'Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Global History.
Venue: All Souls College, Old Library, Oxford
Convenors: Alexander Morrison (Liverpool University and All Souls College) and Berny Sèbe (Birmingham University)
Programme
9.00 - 9.15
Introduction: Alexander Morrison & Berny Sèbe
9.15 - 10.00
Keynote 1
Sid-Ahmed Kerzabi (Association des Amis du Tassili n’Ajjer, Algiers)
Les forts sahariens: un héritage de guerre à réutiliser dans un contexte culturel ?
10.00 - 10.30 - Coffee break
10.30 - 12.30
The Sahara
Benedetta Rossi (University of Birmingham)
Kinetocracy: Towards a Model for Nomadic Government in Desert-like Environments
Judith Scheele (University of Oxford)
The colonial conquest of northern Chad: a necessary failure?
Berny Sèbe (University of Birmingham)
Traces of Conquest: the multiple layers of architectural heritage in the Sahara
12.30 - 14.00 - Lunch break
14.00 - 16.00
Central Asia
Cloé Drieu (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
The 1916 Central Asian Uprising and the 'pacification' of Semirechie
Moritz Deutschmann (Institute of Historical Research)
Slavery and imperial liberation? Russia, Iran, and the Turkmen in the nineteenth century
Alexander Morrison (University of Liverpool / Nazarbayev University)
Grain, meat and agrarian colonization on the Syr-Darya Line, 1847 - 1860
16.00 - 16.30 - Coffee break
16.30 - 17.30
Keynote 2
Jacques Frémeaux (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Le Sahara, désert des Tartares?
For more information on the ‘Outposts of Conquest’ research project, please visit www.birmingham.ac.uk/forts