2025/2026 HACPT Seminar Schedule
We’re very excited to share our seminar schedule for the 2025/2026 academic year! Our seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London, and on Zoom, from 5:30-7pm (GMT). To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com.
“The one who tills shall be the one who eats”. Retrieved from Raza, Shozab. “The Sufi and the Sickle: Theorizing Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 64, no. 2 (2022): 300–334.
October 22, 2025: Book Panel - Stephen Legg’s ‘Spaces of Anticolonialism’. Stephen Legg (Nottingham), Tanroop Sandhu (QMUL), Romola Sanyal (LSE), Philippa Williams (QMUL).
November 13, 2025: “Post-war activism in the metropole”. Iain Stewart (UCL) and Owen Dowling (Cambridge).
January 12, 2026: “Bringing the War Home: Gulf Solidarity Campaigns against Britain’s Dirty War in Dhofar, 1965-75”. Kimia Talebi (York).
February 9, 2026: “Anticolonial Resistance to Imperial Invasion”. Ajmal Waqif (Birkbeck) and Andrew Arsan (Cambridge).
March 9, 2026: “The Black Atlantic against the French Empire”. Jesus Ruiz (Vanderbilt) and Melanie Lamotte (Duke).
April 8, 2026: “Anticolonial worldmaking and its limits (?)” Jackqueline Frost (UoL in Paris) and Poorvi Bellur (Princeton).
May 18, 2026: “Anticolonial Praxis in South Asian Islam”. Samia Khatun (SOAS), Faridah Zaman (Oxford), and Mahdi Chowdhury (Harvard).
June 22, 2026: “Marxism across the Tropics”. Arwa Awan (Oberlin) and Lin Hongxuan (National University of Singapore).