BISA 2026 Conference

The bodies and scripts of empire: imperial orders and colonial administration

FR05

5 Jun 2026, 16:45

1h 30m

Meeting room 16, Brighton Centre

Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Description

The bodies and scripts of empire: imperial orders and colonial administration

Subcontributions

• Postcolonial hygge: Decolonisation, Race, and Imperial Orders in Greenland
• The Postcolonial British State and its Settler Imperial Scripts
• “It’s complicated”: The British Empire and the Complexity Exculpation
• Archival Bodies: Analyzing the Embodied Memories of the Franco-Algerian War of Decolonization (1954–1962) in France.