Professor Robert P George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, is the inaugural speaker in a new series at the Blavatnik School of Government.

The Minoritisation in South Asia conference is bringing together several senior and junior scholars working in the fields of history, politics, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, gender studies, and development studies from across the globe.

1. “Many Vietnams in One Africa: People’s War and the Pursuit of African Unity, 1954-1978,” by J.J. Byrne (University of British Columbia, Canada).
2. “‘A second Vietnam’: Liberation Struggles in Africa and Mao’s ‘continuous revolution’ (1955-1958),” by Jodie Yuzhou Sun (Fudan University, China).
3. “Fanon and the Vietnamese,” by Chris J. Lee (The Africa Institute, UAE)
Discussant: Ruth Shoo (University of Oxford, UK)
Speakers will be joining online, you can attend in person or online: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PSnC2PMTSWGdMuIxemavcw

1. “Dead End Diplomacy: Nyerere, Nkrumah, and Asymmetric Sincerity in the Commonwealth Peace Mission to Vietnam” by Paul Bjerk (Texas Tech University, USA)
2. “Global Solidarities: How the Vietnam War Shaped African Anti-Imperialism Worldmaking” by John Dotse (University of Toronto, Canada) and Maxwell Bogpene (University of British Columbia, Canada)
3. “It is easy to accept…that in war these things often happen:” the failure of rhetoric as a strategy of war in the Ojukwu’s experience of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970” by E.O. Ojelabi (Texas Tech University, USA)