This conference (5-6 February 2010) considered various aspects colonialist from a comparative perspective, with papers covering the Ottoman empire and the early Turkish Republic, the Portuguese in early modern Southeast Asia, American missionaries, British-mandated Palestine, Algeria, Malta and Cyprus.
Decolonisation
- Feroz Ahmad (Yeditepe University, Istanbul), “Decolonization and the fall of the Ottoman Empire.”
- James McDougall (Oxford University), “Old guard, new era: the imperialism of development at the end of French Algeria.”
Colonial Rule
- Erol Baykal (Cambridge University), “Colonial Dutch interest in the Ottoman press in the 19th century.”
- Jake Norris (Cambridge University), “Beyond mandatory borders: civil society under British rule in Bethlehem.”
Religion
- Tara Alberts (Cambridge University), ” ‘A worthy enterprise for your courage’: Portuguese colonial ambition and evangelism in early modern Southeast Asia.”
- Andrew Preston (Cambridge University), “Faith, rights, and norms: American missionaries and informal empire.”
Economy
- Aimilia Themopoulou (Athens University), “British trade and British interests in Salonica in its hinterland in the 19th century.”
- Kate Fleet (Cambridge University), “Money and politics: British activities in Anatolia during the Turkish national liberation war.”
- Carmel Cassar (University of Malta), “Continuity and change: the adoption of a wheat free trade in British Malta.”
Intellectual approaches
- Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge University), “Indigenous perceptions of Spanish colonialism.”
- Ebru Boyar (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), “The deconstruction of mental colonisation: intellectual responses to colonialism in the early Turkish Republic.”
- Irene Pophaides (Frederick University, Cyprus), “The dialectic of ideology and circumstance: Enosis revisited.”