MEMORIES OF
COLONIAL PASTS

La Contemporaine | University of Nanterre | 6–8.12.2022

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Memories of Colonial Pasts: Perspectives on a Global Phenomenon of the Present Time

Dec 06, 09:00 UTC+1 – Dec 08, 17:00 UTC+1 La Contemporaine, 200 Av. de la République, 92000 Nanterre, France

Organization: Andrea Brazzoduro, Miriam Hernandez Reyna,

Sebastien Ledoux,Thaís Tanure, Sylvie Thénault

Programme

Tue 06 Dec

9:30

Welcome

10:00

Introduction

Andrea Brazzoduro, Miriam Hernandez Reyna, Sebastien Ledoux,

Thaís Tanure, Sylvie Thénault

10:30

Panel I: Education, transmission

Marie-Albane de Suremain: chair and discussant

Sarah Moretti

History and geography teaching and memory issues in the French overseas departments: a comparative study in the academies of French Guyana and Martinique

Mélanie Toulhoat

Christelle Rabier (EHESS/Cermes3)

Filling a memorial or pedagogical void? Reflecting on the pedagogical experience of “Colonial Memories of Marseille” (2019-2021) at the EHESS Marseille

12:00

Lunch break

14:00

Panel II: Belongings, identities

Giulia Fabbiano: chair and discussant

14:45

15:00

Maud Delevaux (Université Paris Nanterre/IFEA)
Memory of slavery and Afro-Peruvian identity claims

Sarah J. Zimmerman

Gendering Memory and the Politics of the Present on Gorée Island

Break

Martino Oppizzi

A Jewish memory or an Italian memory? The narration of the colonial past among the former members of the Livornese community of Tunisia

Bhawna Khattar

In Search of The Language of Loss. Exploring the relation between family memory and national history in postcolonial India through the perspective of families affected by the Partition

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Dec 7

wed 07 dec

9:30

Welcome

10:00

Anne Joly & Olga Vanegas-Toro

Presence of memories of colonial pasts in the collections of La contemporaine

10:30

Panel III: Reparations, reconciliations

Raphaëlle Branche: chair and discussant

Jessica Balguy

The reception of the research on the colonial indemnity of 1849

Louise Guttin-Vindot

Repairing the Algerian war? The Mohamed Garne case

Yukiko Koga

Restless Reconciliation: Reckoning with Japanese Imperial Violence in East Asia

12:00 

Lunch break

14:00

Panel IV.1: Heritage, monuments, museums

Myriam Cottias: chair and discussant

Beatrice Falcucci

The former Colonial Museum in Rome: museology as a metaphor for the memory of Italian colonialism

Thaís Tanure

Remembering a distant past: the commemorations of the conquest of the Americas in Nantes and Rio de Janeiro (1992–2000)

14:45

Break

15:00

Panel IV.2: Heritage, monuments, museums

Pascale Goetschel: chair and discussant

Marion Bertin

Thinking a (post)colonial heritage: the “dispersed Kanak heritage”

Berklee Baum

Etched in Stone? An internationally comparative analysis of how the treatment of two colonial memorials over the past century reflects evolving constructions and contestations of colonial genocide memory

Sandra Guinand, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Xinyu Li, Yue Lu

Patrimonialization, memorial work and tourist enhancement of the former concession of Tianjin and Wuhan

19:00

Dinner for participants

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Thu 08 Dec

9:00

Welcome

9:30

V. Associations, activism and mobilizations

Françoise Blum: chair and discussant

Clémence Maillochon

From Algeria to French Polynesia: how to reconcile nuclear and colonial memories?

Gianmarco Mancosu

Lieux de (post-colonial) mémoire: transnational associationism and imperial nostalgia in contemporary Italy

Tièmeni Sigankwé

The memory that didn’t want to die from obliteration to the return of anti-colonial pent-up in Cameroon

11:00

Pause

11:15

Panel VI: International Relations and Transnational Dynamics

Audrey Célestine: chair and discussant

Sahra Rausch

Colonialism as a “Crime against Humanity”? On the (im)possibility of political apologies

Yves Denéchère

Memories and history of the displacement of mixed-race children in France during and after the Indochina War

Christine Lévy

Is a transnational gendered memory possible? The case of Japan and South Korea

Dec 8

12:45

General Discussion

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