May 2015 – Gender and the Colonial
In a period where gender is increasingly deployed via international and national policy initiatives, the Centre will present scholarship that analyses the role of gender (performance, embodiment, histories, constructions, deviations) in the persistence and legacies of colonial tropes, as well as academic voices that complicate expected understandings and meanings of gender through the study of the colonial and vice versa. The conference will provide a cross- and inter- disciplinary space