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Post-Imperial Oceanics

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.

Keynote lecture (live, 30 min):
-- Laleh Khalili (Queen Mary, University of London)

Confirmed speakers (10 min pre-recorded talks and live panel discussions):
-- Rosanna Carver (Lancaster)
-- 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 (Vancouver)
-- Laurel Mei-Singh (Hawai’i)
-- Ben Mendelsohn (Penn)
-- Mae Miller (Presidential Postdoc, Berkeley)
-- Killian Quigley (Sydney)
-- Meg Samuelson (Adelaide)
-- Matt Shutzer (Ciriacy Wantrop Postdoc, Berkeley)

Conference organizers
-- Sharad Chari (Department of Geography, Berkeley)
-- Charne Lavery (Oceanic Humanities in the Global South, Wits)
-- Isabel Hofmeyr (Oceanic Humanities in the Global South, Wits)