Dates and locations: September 17, CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
September 18, Oriental Institute, Prague (Pod Vodárenskou věží 4, Prague 8
Language: English
Please note that registration is mandatory to join the conference.
For September 17, please register via: cefres@cefres.cz
and to register for September 18, please write to: reyhan@orient.cas.cz ; mucha@orient.cas.cz
Abstract
The workshop explores the plurality of colonial legacies in contemporary societies by bringing into dialogue perspectives on postcoloniality, decolonisation, and anticolonialism from non-Western contexts. It aims to foster comparative and interdisciplinary discussion on colonial continuities, transformations, and resistances across regions and historical settings.
The event builds on the organisers’ research on anti-colonial movements in British India, postcolonial migration governance in Bangladesh, and Chinese colonialism in East Turkestan and decolonial movements in Eurasia. It is envisioned as a focused, discussion-oriented workshop.
Program for September 17
CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
9:00 – 9:30 Participants and attendants’ registration
9:30–9:45 Welcome remarks
Session 1
Chair: Zbynek Mucha (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences) Q&A included
9:45 – 10:30 Shaivya MISHRA, Senior Researcher at the Oriental Institute
The Case of Exploding Coconuts: Anti-colonial Violence, and Technology in Twentieth Century British India
10:30 – 11:10 Dilnur REYHAN, Senior Researcher at the Oriental Institute
“YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW”: Where is colonization, there is resistance : Uyghur Anticolonial Resistance
11:10 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:00 Gavin HERBERTSON, Assistant professor at the SWPS University
Polycoloniality: Envisioning Plurality for a Second-Wave Postcolonialism
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 2
Chair: Dilnur Reyhan / Shaivya Mishra (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences) Q&A included
14:00 – 14:40 Zbynek MUCHA, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Oriental Institute
Emotional, Irrational and Helpless Migrants? Discourses on Irregular and Low-Skilled Migration from Bangladesh
14:40 – 15:10 Aizhamal MURATALIEVA, Corvinus University of Budapest
Authentic “Kyrgyz” vs. Russified “Kirghiz”: The Postcolonial Identities of Female Migrants from Kyrgyzstan to Russia
15:10 – 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 – 16:00 Aung KYAW MIN, PhD Candidate-Charles University The Asian Socialist Conference and the Idea of Anti-Colonialism
16:00 Closing Remarks
Program for September 18
Room 44, Oriental Institute, Prague (Pod Vodárenskou věží 1143, 182 00 Praha 8-Libeň)
9:00 – 9:30 Participants and attendants’ registration
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome remarks
Session 1 Decolonizing Arts in Central Asia
Chair: TBA (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences) Q&A included
9:45 – 10:30 Botagoz KOILYBAYEVA, PhD candidate, Charles University
Towards Decolonial World-making: The Poetics and Politics of Saodat Ismailova’s Worlds
10:30 – 11:10 Karina GAIBULINA, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Politics of the Visibilities Postcolonial Art from Central Asia
11:10 – 11:20 Coffee break
Session 2 – Contested Memories and Decolonization of the Past
Chair: Zbynek Mucha (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences) Q&A included
11:20 – 12:00 Emina ZOLETIĆ, PhD candidate, University of Warsaw
Intergenerational Memory, Moral Obligation, and Politics of Silences: From Bosnian Diaspora to Palestine
12:00 – 12:40 Azim MALIKOV, Assistant professor, Palacky University
The Curse of Timur: Decolonising Soviet Historical Memory in Contemporary Uzbekistan
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 3 – Russia and China – Postcolonial or Colonial Nation States ?
Chair: Dilnur Reyhan (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
14:00 – 14:40 Rinat MUKHAMETOV, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki
“Russian Jihad” and National Islamism: Muslim Communities of the North Caucasus during the Russian-Ukrainian War
14:40 – 15:10 Vadim SIDOROV, PhD candidate, Charles University
Beyond Overseas Colonialism: Russian and Chinese State-Nation Models in Comparative Postcolonial Perspective
15:10 Closing Remarks
