Entangled Modernities

Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, University of Kent

Scholars from around the world meet to discuss the inspiring work of indigenous thinkers, and assess their impact on the study of culture.

<h3>Keynote Speaker:</h3><p>Alice Te Punga Somerville (University of Waikato)</p><h3>About:</h3><p>In the last two decades, new methodologies have emerged for analysing the entanglements between European and non-European histories in sites of colonisation. Settler Colonial Studies has emerged as an interdisciplinary project that seeks to move beyond frameworks dominated by questions of race and identity, and towards a transnational analysis of settler colonialism as a structure with its own particular and distinct logics and practices. However, despite the critical stance towards imperial and colonial ideologies and practices, many scholars in Critical Indigenous Studies have argued persuasively that Settler Colonial Studies undermines the Indigenous activist standpoint and replicates colonial power. In this reading, the structural approach of Settler Colonial Studies ‘posits a structural inevitability to settler colonial relations that leaves no space for individual agency for both Indigenous people and settler colonists alike’.[1]</p><p>In literary studies, the ‘transnational turn’ in American, Victorian and Romantic Studies has led to a critical reassessment of nationalist literary historiographies that efface the influence of colonisation on Anglophone literary culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In recent years, frameworks from Critical Race and Indigenous Studies, as well as those from new imperial history, globalisation theory and Settler Colonial Studies, have led to a critical re-examination of the role that colonisation and colonial practices of knowledge gathering had on British and American literary culture, and a renewed focus on the literary cultures and institutions of the settler colonies.</p><p>This symposium, a collaboration between the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of Kent and the ERC Southem project at University College Dublin, aims to bring scholars and activists working in Critical Indigenous Studies and Settler Colonial Studies into closer dialogue with those working in the fields of transnational American Studies and Global Victorian and Romantic Studies. It aims to produce new research collaborations and methodologies for critically examining the complex cultural entanglements between the various European and non-European cultures operating under the conditions of colonisation during the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries.</p><p>[1] Corey Snelgrove, Rita Kaur Dhamoon and Jeff Corntassel, ‘Unsettling Settler Colonialism: The Dis- course and Politics of Settlers, and Solidarity with Indigenous Nations’, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education &amp; Society 3, no. 2 (2014).</p>

<h3>Organising Team:</h3><p>Lara Atkin (Kent), Michael Falk (Kent), Porscha Fermanis (UCD), David Stirrup (Kent)</p><p>This event is supported by the European Research Council, the Division of Arts and Humanities (Kent), Western Sydney University, and the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies (Kent).</p>

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