Programme colloque « Imperial Domesticities, 18th-20th centuries »
Chères et chers collègues,
Nous avons le plaisir de vous transmettre le programme du colloque international « Imperial Domesticities, 18th-20th centuries », qui se tiendra à l’Université de Genève du 17 au 19 juin prochains.
Tuesday, June 17
9h: Welcome
9h30: Introduction by Loraine Chappuis and Stéphanie Soubrier
10h-12h: Panel 1 – Families, home, intimacies Chair: Alexander Keese (UNIGE)
* Clément Fabre (Sorbonne Université) : The Domestic Laboratory of Imperial Prestige: Interactions Between Western Masters and Chinese Servants in 19th-Century China * Nassima Mekaoui Chebout (EHESS) : Colonized Women, Domestic Work and Difference : Afro-Christian and Muslim « Fatmas » in Algeria and Morocco (XXth Century) * Eleonore Devevey (UNIGE, Département de langue et de littérature françaises modernes) : Vies de boy et drames de maison : la domesticité impériale au prisme de la littérature. * Benjamin Badier (Université d’Artois): Serving the colonised ruler: French and Moroccan servants of the Sultan under the French Protectorate in Morocco (1912–1956) *
* 12h-13h30: Lunch break
13h30-15h: Panel 2 – Childhood Chair: Naïma Maggetti (UNIGE)
* Fae Dussart (Geography, University of Sussex): « Unprotected orphan girls” at the heart of Empire: care, co-ercion and child domestic labour in mid-19th century Britain * Bethan Holt (University of Glasgow): Colonial care and domestic labour: Children’s encounters with missionaries in 19th century British West Indies and Mauritius. * Maysa Espindola Souza (UNIGE): Between care and exploitation: the labor of Indigenous minors in Portuguese Guinea (1900- 1960)
15h-15h30: Coffee break
15h30-17h30: Screening of La Noire de…, Ousmane Sembène
* Presentation by Clyde Plumauzille (CNRS) and Caroline Ibos (CNRS), followed by a discussion.
Conference’s diner
Wednesday, June 18
9h30-10h30: Panel 3 – Constraints, Resistance, and Agency Chair: Marie Houllemare (UNIGE)
* Gildas Igor Noumbou Tetam (Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques de Lausanne) : « Les populations doivent rester au village pour préparer à manger aux soldats ». * Orion Déchand (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) : Between Endured Violence and the Power to Act: Domestic Trajectories in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 17th Century *
* 10h30-11h: Coffee break
11h-12h30: Panel 4 – Local Dynamics, Individual Trajectories Chair: Marion Philip (UNIGE)
* Violaine Tisseau (CNRS): Rewarding Loyalty: Colonial Imaginaries and Individual Journeys Through Work Medal Files in Madagascar (1920s) * Stéphanie Soubrier (UNIGE): “A Man Without Roots”: Belongings and unbelonging in Seydou Traoré’s life story * Pedro Cerdeira (UNIGE): “Girls in Civilized Families”: Domestic Work and the Politics of Difference in Portuguese Guinea (1945-1974)
12h30-14h: Lunch break
14h-16h: Panel 5 – Mobilities, Circulations, Exile Chair: Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE)
* Swapna Banerjee (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York): Mobile Domesticity: Recuperating Travelling Ayahs from the Nineteenth-century Colonial Archive * Claire Lowrie (University of Wollongong, Australia): Travelling Chinese amahs in Britain and France and Australia, 1870s-1930s * Romy Sánchez (CNRS): Serving an Imperial Exile: Searching for Domesticity Among Cuban Separatists of New York, 1873 * Frances Steel (University of Otago, New Zealand): Goan stewards at sea between empires and states, c.1890s-1960s *
* Break
18h-20h30: Screening of Overseas by Sung-A Yoon (1h30), followed by a discussion with Julien Debonneville (Haute école de travail social et de la santé, Lausanne).
Diner
Thursday, June 19
9h-11h: Panel 6 – Domestic Work and Servile Labor Chair: Sandrine Kott (UNIGE)
* Céline Flory (CNRS), On the margins of indentured labour: being an “indentured immigrant” and domestic servant in post-slavery Guyana (second half of the 19th century) * Victoria Haskins (University of Newcastle, Australia): ‘Traited no better than a slave’: Ayahs, exploitation, and domestic power in the early Australian colonies * Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht University): Care and Coercion. Patriarchy, (Forced) Labour and Caregiving in the Household in the Dutch Empire, c. 1750-Present * Julie Hardwick (University of Texas): A tale of two households of seamstresses: labor, violence, fugitivity as the keys to the experiences of free and enslaved black women in eighteenth-century Nantes.
11h-11-30h: Coffee break
11h30-12h30: Conclusion/discussion
Nous avons le plaisir de vous transmettre le programme du colloque international « Imperial Domesticities, 18th-20th centuries », qui se tiendra à l’Université de Genève du 17 au 19 juin prochains.
Tuesday, June 17
9h: Welcome
9h30: Introduction by Loraine Chappuis and Stéphanie Soubrier
10h-12h: Panel 1 – Families, home, intimacies Chair: Alexander Keese (UNIGE)
* Clément Fabre (Sorbonne Université) : The Domestic Laboratory of Imperial Prestige: Interactions Between Western Masters and Chinese Servants in 19th-Century China * Nassima Mekaoui Chebout (EHESS) : Colonized Women, Domestic Work and Difference : Afro-Christian and Muslim « Fatmas » in Algeria and Morocco (XXth Century) * Eleonore Devevey (UNIGE, Département de langue et de littérature françaises modernes) : Vies de boy et drames de maison : la domesticité impériale au prisme de la littérature. * Benjamin Badier (Université d’Artois): Serving the colonised ruler: French and Moroccan servants of the Sultan under the French Protectorate in Morocco (1912–1956) *
* 12h-13h30: Lunch break
13h30-15h: Panel 2 – Childhood Chair: Naïma Maggetti (UNIGE)
* Fae Dussart (Geography, University of Sussex): « Unprotected orphan girls” at the heart of Empire: care, co-ercion and child domestic labour in mid-19th century Britain * Bethan Holt (University of Glasgow): Colonial care and domestic labour: Children’s encounters with missionaries in 19th century British West Indies and Mauritius. * Maysa Espindola Souza (UNIGE): Between care and exploitation: the labor of Indigenous minors in Portuguese Guinea (1900- 1960)
15h-15h30: Coffee break
15h30-17h30: Screening of La Noire de…, Ousmane Sembène
* Presentation by Clyde Plumauzille (CNRS) and Caroline Ibos (CNRS), followed by a discussion.
Conference’s diner
Wednesday, June 18
9h30-10h30: Panel 3 – Constraints, Resistance, and Agency Chair: Marie Houllemare (UNIGE)
* Gildas Igor Noumbou Tetam (Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques de Lausanne) : « Les populations doivent rester au village pour préparer à manger aux soldats ». * Orion Déchand (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) : Between Endured Violence and the Power to Act: Domestic Trajectories in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 17th Century *
* 10h30-11h: Coffee break
11h-12h30: Panel 4 – Local Dynamics, Individual Trajectories Chair: Marion Philip (UNIGE)
* Violaine Tisseau (CNRS): Rewarding Loyalty: Colonial Imaginaries and Individual Journeys Through Work Medal Files in Madagascar (1920s) * Stéphanie Soubrier (UNIGE): “A Man Without Roots”: Belongings and unbelonging in Seydou Traoré’s life story * Pedro Cerdeira (UNIGE): “Girls in Civilized Families”: Domestic Work and the Politics of Difference in Portuguese Guinea (1945-1974)
12h30-14h: Lunch break
14h-16h: Panel 5 – Mobilities, Circulations, Exile Chair: Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE)
* Swapna Banerjee (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York): Mobile Domesticity: Recuperating Travelling Ayahs from the Nineteenth-century Colonial Archive * Claire Lowrie (University of Wollongong, Australia): Travelling Chinese amahs in Britain and France and Australia, 1870s-1930s * Romy Sánchez (CNRS): Serving an Imperial Exile: Searching for Domesticity Among Cuban Separatists of New York, 1873 * Frances Steel (University of Otago, New Zealand): Goan stewards at sea between empires and states, c.1890s-1960s *
* Break
18h-20h30: Screening of Overseas by Sung-A Yoon (1h30), followed by a discussion with Julien Debonneville (Haute école de travail social et de la santé, Lausanne).
Diner
Thursday, June 19
9h-11h: Panel 6 – Domestic Work and Servile Labor Chair: Sandrine Kott (UNIGE)
* Céline Flory (CNRS), On the margins of indentured labour: being an “indentured immigrant” and domestic servant in post-slavery Guyana (second half of the 19th century) * Victoria Haskins (University of Newcastle, Australia): ‘Traited no better than a slave’: Ayahs, exploitation, and domestic power in the early Australian colonies * Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht University): Care and Coercion. Patriarchy, (Forced) Labour and Caregiving in the Household in the Dutch Empire, c. 1750-Present * Julie Hardwick (University of Texas): A tale of two households of seamstresses: labor, violence, fugitivity as the keys to the experiences of free and enslaved black women in eighteenth-century Nantes.
11h-11-30h: Coffee break
11h30-12h30: Conclusion/discussion