Full Programme

Day 1, Mon 24 June
GENDER PASTS (All Day: Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum)

9 am: Registration
9.30am: Welcome and Introduction (Maria Misra)

9.45am-12.15 noon, Session 1: ‘Distant Pasts’

A session that will explore the diverse and protean nature of gender imaginaries and orders in the longue durée, and will feature historians specialising in the ancient, medieval and early modern worlds.

Speakers

The book examines how the colonial politics of natural resources affected the making of some of the most "unlikely" states in today's world, focusing on colonial entities mainly in Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf.

As temperatures swell across India and anticipation grows for the election result next week, join us to discuss the impact of the election including the prospects for a country that has seen repression of democratic rights and institutions. How will the winning party use their new mandate? What will the result mean for minority rights?

Almost 30 years after the end of the civil war in Guatemala, many crimes remain unsolved. An exemplary site for Guatemala's past is Rio Negro. In the 1980s, the residents of Rio Negro, Mayas from the Achí community, resisted the expropriation of their land and the relocation of their village, which was to make way for a dam project. During the so-called counterinsurgency led by dictator Ríos Montt, the village suffered several massacres, resulting in the deaths of over 400 people.