This seminar meets a few times each semester in a workshop format to discuss a completed or nearly completed article-length manuscript or book/dissertation chapter [8,000-20,000 words], and provide detailed feedback to the author. The seminar is open to Ph.D. students, postdocs, and junior faculty at Boston University and beyond, who are working on themes associated with decolonization. Some of the themes that we are enthusiastic about are borders, borderlands, partitions, identities, race, citizenship, and political violence, among others.

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If you are interested in presenting in AY 2021-22, please send an email to GloDec's Director, 
Dr. Jayita Sarkar with (a) working title, (b) preferred semester, and (c) how this work fits with your broader research agenda and with our theme of decolonization. 
Email: jsarkar@bu.edu

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*** All seminar sessions will be held on Zoom from 10:30 AM - 12 noon EST. ***

**All registration links are in this document.**

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SPRING 2021 

• Tuesday, March 2
  Dr. Andrew Bell, Lecturer at BU
  Discussant: Megan Black, Associate Professor at MIT

  • ​Archaeology, Heritage, and Settler Colonialism at Pajarito Plateau, 1880-1916

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• Tuesday, March. 16
  Mr. Sean Case, Ph.D. candidate, BU American Studies
  Discussant: Daniel Bessner, Associate Professor at University of Washington

  • Building the Balance, Maintaining the Peace: Power, Compromise, and the Creation of the Strategic Field

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• Tuesday, March 23
  Ms. Calynn Dowler, Ph.D. candidate, BU Anthropology​
  Discussant: Debjani Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor at Drexel University

  • ​Settling the fluid frontier: histories of migration and placemaking in the Sundarbans Delta

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• Tuesday, March 30
  Dr. Ann-Sophie Schoepfel, Fellow, Harvard WIGH
  Discussant: Kim Wagner, Professor at Queen Mary University of London

  • ​SOS Indochina: Anti-Imperialism, Subversion and the Human Rights Discourse in interwar Vietnam