MEICON Keynote Lecture | Third World Study: Empire and the Decolonization of Knowledge with Esmat Elhalaby
MEICON Keynote Lecture | Third World Study: Empire and the Decolonization of Knowledge with Esmat Elhalaby
On March 14, CCMS hosted Dr. Esmat Elhalaby, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto, for MEICON's keynote lecture.
91ÅÝܽ the Speaker:
The partitions of 1947 and 1948 in British India and British Palestine, represented both the breaking of a well-established imperial frame and the inauguration of a new era of unfinished political decolonization. Under these conditions, intellectuals in the Third World, nourished by centuries of shared past and an eagerness to end the vestiges of colonial rule, forged new links with each other as they worked to imagine wholly new institutions for struggle and lexicons for study. Dr. Elhalaby’s lecture offers a social history of anti-colonial ideas, from imperialism’s disciplines to decolonization’s areas, across West and South Asia.
Esmat Elhalaby is a historian of colonialism and anti-colonialism. He is an Assistant Professor of Transnational History at the University of Toronto. His first book, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization is forthcoming from the University of California Press.
Iftar will be provided to registrants and conference participants after the lecture.
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The Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia (MEICON-BC) was founded in 2008 as a collaborative project of 91ÅÝܽ (CCMS), the University of Victoria (MEICON Working Group), and the University of British Columbia (UBC Middle East Studies) with the participation of other British Columbian universities and colleges. Its purpose is to provide an organizational basis for communication and cooperation among all British Columbian academics interested in the study of the Middle East and Muslim societies and cultures. They host an annual student conference (typically held in March of each year), where students are invited to present their papers and receive feedback and support in a lively and nurturing environment.
MEICON 2025 was hosted by the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies at SFU, SFU School for International Studies, SFU Department of History, SFU School of Communication, SFU Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SFU Department of Global Humanities, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, SFU Department of Geography, SFU Institute for the Humanities, SFU Department of World Languages and Literatures, SFU Global Asia, University of Victoria MEICON Working Group, and UBC Middle East Studies.