Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Past events

Reggae and Raï: Resistance Music from Jamaica and Algeria

Saturday 11 November from 16:00 until 18:00

University of Sussex Campus

A mixture of rare screenings, conversations and dj sets connecting the musical traditions of Jamaican reggae and Algerian raï.


Leverhulme Lecture: Extracting the Energy Transition: Lithium Imaginaries and Impossible Futures

Wednesday 25 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

The Centre for Rights and Anticolonial Justice & the Sussex Energy Group would like to invite everyone to join this Leverhulme Lecture...


Middle East and North Africa PhD work-in-progress

Wednesday 18 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

A range of current Sussex PhD students discuss their research on the Middle East and North Africa region.


Book launch: Jacob Norris, 'The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub'

Monday 24 April from 16:00 until 17:00

University of Sussex Campus

Jacob Norris discusses his new book 'The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub' with historian Dr Joanne Paul and literature scholar Dr Feras Alkabani


‘Beyond Sectarianism: Rural-Urban Relations and the Future of the Syrian Conflict’

Wednesday 29 March from 16:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

Dr Naboulsi explores rural-urban tensions in Syria and why they should be considered in future settlement of the conflict. Chaired by Dr Feras...


MENACS collective read: Marwan Hisham's "Brothers of the Gun"

Thursday 9 March from 16:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

A discussion of Marwan Hisham's book, "Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War".


Displacing History: Writing, Longing and (Un)Belonging - In Conversation with Isabella Hammad

Monday 17 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad discusses her acclaimed novel The Parisian.


Can you Hack it? Challenging the Colonial Epistemologies of the Archive

Wednesday 5 October from 14:00 until 17:00

University of Sussex Campus

This workshop critically engages with the realities of building digital archival infrastructures, using the MENA region as a case study.


Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film

Tuesday 16 November from 17:00 until 18:30

Online

Book launch of Dr Peter Cherry’s (Bilkent and MENACS) new monograph, "Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film" (Bloomsbury/IB Tauris, 2021)


Mexican Mahjar: Transnational Maronites, Jews and Arabs Under the French Mandate

Thursday 4 November from 16:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

Global historian Camila Pastor discusses the entwined histories of Mexico and Syria/Lebanon during the interwar years


Algiers in the Mid-Twentieth Century: From Anti-Colonial Resistance to the Mecca of Third World Revolution

Wednesday 13 October from 17:00 until 18:30

Online

Elaine Mokhtefi will explore Algiers' revolutionary culture in the 1960s, from the War of Independence to the Pan-African Festival of 1969.


O Daughter of Babylon: Journey of an Iraqi Patriot

Wednesday 28 April from 16:00 until 17:30

Online

Book talk followed by conversation between Dr Ali Kassem (Sussex) and Dr Francis Clark-Lowes, editor of Riad El-Taher’s O Daughter of Babylon.


Mahmud Mukhtar: The Prophet and the Professional

Tuesday 23 March from 16:00 until 18:00

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Mahmud Mukhtar (1891-1934) is widely considered the father of modern Egyptian sculpture, and the country's first internationally recognised artist.


“A Strange Industrial Order:” Indonesia’s Racialized Plantation Ecologies and Anticolonial Estate Worker Rebellion

Thursday 6 February from 15:00 until 17:00

Global Studies Resource Centre, Arts C175

Everyone is welcome


Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial - Contesting Political Terms

Thursday 30 January from 16:00 until 18:00

Jubilee G22

Chair: Gurminder K Bhambra (Sussex)


Empire and the New Museum paradigm - conference

Monday 16 September from 9:00 until 18:00

University of Sussex / Brighton Museum

Shifting representations at museums and art galleries in the UK.


Responsibility for Colonial Injustice

Wednesday 1 May from 17:00 until 19:00

Fulton B Lecture Theatre

2018/19 Sussex International Theory Prize Lecture (Part II)


Operation Legacy: documentary and discussion

Tuesday 30 April from 16:00 until 18:00

Arts A071

This SAC seminar is joint with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, and the Museum of British Colonialism.


How to fight the fascists and win … (then and now)

Sunday 28 April from 13:00 until 17:30

Birkbeck, London

April 2019 sees the 40th anniversary of the protests in Southall which saw the local community come out on the streets to defend themselves against...