IHS Panel: Postcolonial Socialisms in Perspective (Socialist and Collectivist History Series)

Thursday February 20, 2020 • GAR 4.100

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

From the 1940s to the 1970s, as part of the project of decolonization, leaders and thinkers in late colonial or postcolonial states developed strikingly new conceptions of socialism – conceptions that were distinct and often at odds with European ones. The panel will explore this phenomenon as it emerged in three contexts: the Arab world, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Panel features:
“The Life and Times of Arab Socialism”
Yoav Di-Capua
Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/yd386

“A ‘Popular Option for Development’? Imagining Democratic Socialism in Salvador Allende’s Chile”
Joshua Frens-String
Assistant Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jf36427

“Tanzania’s Socialist Experiment and the Politics of Postcolonial Development”
Priya Lal
Associate Professor of History
Boston College
https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/history/people/faculty-directory/priya-lal.html

Indrani Chatterjee, moderator
Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/ic2396

The event is part of the Institute’s 2019-2020 series on “Agency and Action: Chapters in Socialist and Collectivist History.”

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