Post Imperial Oceanics
November 4 – 5, 2020 every day 9-11 a.m.

A 2-day virtual conference that brings together a set of thinkers engaged with fragmented, layered and linked oceanic imperial processes, to think with the creative tensions between sociocultural processes across oceanic surfaces, and the mysteries of the submarine.


Micro-lectures posted by Oct 30, 2020.

Rosanna Carver (UBC Vancouver)

Charmaine Chua (Santa Barbara)

Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA)

David Featherstone (Glasgow)

Jennifer Gaynor (Buffalo)

Pamila Gupta (Wits) 

Jaimey Hamilton-Faris (Hawai’i)

Melody Jue (Santa Barbara)

Jeffrey Kahn (Davis)

Renisa Mawani (UBC Vancouver)

Laurel Mei-Singh (Hawai’i)

Ben Mendelsohn (Penn)
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Mae Miller (Berkeley)

Killian Quigley (Sydney)

Meg Samuelson (Adelaide)

Matt Shutzer (Berkeley)


Opening Remarks (Live on Nov 4, 2020 @ 9am PST)
Sharad Chari (Berkeley)


Keynote (Live on Nov 4, 2020 @9 am)
Laleh Khalili (Queen Mary, University of London)


Panel I: Freighted Subjects (Live on Nov 4, 2020 @ 10 am)
With: Charmaine ChuaRenisa MawaniDavid FeatherstoneJeffrey KahnLaurel Mei-Singh


Opening Remarks: (Live on Nov 5, 2020 @ 9am PST)
Charne Lavery (Wits)


Panel II: Anti-Imperial Waters (Live on Nov 5, 2020 @ 9 am)
with Elizabeth DeLoughreyJaimey Hamilton-FarisMae MillerBen MendelsohnJennifer Gaynor


Panel III: Submerged Matters (Live on Nov 5, 2020 @ 10 am)
with Melody JueRosanna CarverMatt ShutzerPamila GuptaKillian Quigley


Closing Remarks (Live on Nov 5, 2020)
Isabel Hofmeyr (Wits)