The Veteran in Colonial Archive Workshop

Veteran collage from Archive
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 09:00
Arts & Humanities Institute, First Floor of Iontas Building

The COLVET project team are delighted to welcome you to attend this hybrid workshop on 'The Veteran in Colonial Archive', in the Arts and Humanities Institute, First Floor of Iontas Building, Maynooth University on Wednesday, June 25th, 2025. 

This event brings together colleagues doing innovative research on the history of veterancy across a range of geographical and temporal contexts to explore the potential of comparative approaches to help us build a new, global and inclusive history of the war veteran.

Event Schedule:

09:30-9:45 Registration

09:45-10:00 Welcome, Prof Dónal Hassett, Maynooth University
 
10:00-11:00 Prof Santanu Das, All Souls College, Oxford University Keynote

11:00 -11:15 Coffee
 

11:15-12:45 Tracing Veterans in Colonial Archival Collections

  • Massimo Zaccaria, University of Pavia
  • Radhika Singha, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Hilary Buxton, Kenyon College

12:45-14:15 Lunch
                                                   
14 :15-15:45 Thinking Beyond the Limits of the Colonial Archive

  • Michelle Moyd, Michigan State University
  • George Njung, Baylor University
  • Alfred Tembo, University of Zambia 

15:45-16 :00 Coffee
 
16 :00-17 :00 Keynote: Prof Uoldelul Chelati Dirar, University of Macerata,  'The Afterlife of Conflict: Social Mobility, Displacement and Agency in the Voices of Italy's colonial Subjects'.

17:00-17:30 Prof Gavin Rand, Greenwich University: The ‘Punjab Registers’ Project

17:30-18:00 Closing discussion
 
All are welcome in person or online. To register email: [email protected]
This event is funded with the support of the European Research Council, through grant number 101115749.