Friday 16 March

9.00 - 9.30

Registration

9.30 - 9.40

Introductory comments
Felicitas Becker (Cambridge) and Joel Cabrita (SOAS)

9.40 - 10.50

Literacy and Myth-Making
Jonathan Glassman (Northwestern University)
Creole Identity and the Search for Nativist Authenticity in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar

Pier Larson (Johns Hopkins University)
Literacy and Power in Madagascar, 1820–1850

10.50 - 11.10 

Coffee/tea

11.10 - 12.20

Migrants and Belonging
Sumit Mandal (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Belonging to the Land, Connected to the Ocean: Exploring the Histories of Kramat or the Gravesite Shrines of Notable Muslims in Cape Town

Matthew Hopper (Cal Poly)
Diaspora, Empire, and Belongings: Enslaved Africans and Identity in Arabia

12.20 - 1.40 

Lunch

1.40 - 2.50

Nation and Diaspora
Ned Bertz (University of Hawaii)
Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean World: Translating Languages of Citizenship Between Gujarat and Tanzania

Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Migration in the Advent of British Rule to Sri Lanka

2.50 - 3.10

Coffee/tea

15.10 - 4.20

Claims-making and Racialized Hierarchies
Preben Kaarsholm (Roskilde University)
Zanzibaris, Mozbiekers, Makhuwas, South Africans: Self-representations of Black Muslim Immigrants and Citizens in South Africa in Historical Perspective

Patrick Harries (Basel University)
Slaves and Citizens: The Cape of Good Hope

4.20 - 4.40

Break

4.40 - 5.50

Print Publics and Citizenship
James Brennan (University of Illinois)
Print Intellectuals and Visions of Islamic Citizenship in Colonial Urban East Africa: The Lives and Limits of MO Abbasi and RM Plantan

Emma Hunter (Cambridge University)
Dutiful Subjects, Patriotic Citizens and the Concept of 'Good Citizenship' in Twentieth-Century Tanzania

Saturday 17 March

9.30 - 10.40

Trans-regional Activism
Sana Aiyar (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Politics of Citizenship in a Diasporic Milieu: South Asians in Colonial Kenya

Mark Frost (University of Essex)
Empire's Loyal Dissidents: Imperial Citizenship and the Evolution of Radicalism in British Asia, 1900–1920

10.40 - 11.00

Coffee/tea

11.00 - 12.30

Responses and General Discussion
Megan Vaughan (Cambridge University), Tim Harper (Cambridge University), Isabel Hofmeyr (University of Witwatersrand) (latter TBC)
Responses and General Discussion