Event Dates: 13 – 16 September 2015
College Court Conference Centre
Knighton Road,
Leicester LE2 3UF
The Carceral Archipelago: Transnational Circulations in Global Perspective, 1415-1960
‘The Carceral Archipelago’ has been funded by the European Research Council (2013-18), under the direction of principal investigator Professor Clare Anderson. The project analyses the relationships and circulations between and across convict transportation, penal colonies and labour, migration, coercion and confinement. Its geographical scope is wide, and it incorporates all the global powers engaged in transportation for the purpose of expansion and colonization – Europe, Russia, Latin America, China, Japan. Its chronology stretches from Portugal’s first use of convicts in North Africa in 1415 to the dissolution of Stalin’s gulags in 1960. The project is using an innovative theoretical base to shift convict transportation out of the history of crime and punishment and into new questions that are being raised within global and postcolonial history, about the role of coercion and confinement within global expansion and divergence.
The project team is undertaking case study research on convict flows, penal colonies, and on the mobility of ideas and practices around transportation and other modes of confinement all over the world, and over this long period. The research team is working on the Caribbean, West Africa, Gibraltar, Russia, Portugal, Latin America, Japan, Australia and the Indian Ocean. We aim to redefine what we mean by ‘transportation,’ to explore penal colonies as engines of global change, to connect convict transportation to enslavement, indenture and other forms of coerced labour and migration, and to define the long-term impacts of penal colonies on economy, society and identity.
The project website is HERE
The Conference Programme:
[tab:13th September]SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2015
Introduction by Julie Coleman, Head of College of Arts and Humanities, University of Leicester
Welcome by John Coffey, Head of School of History, University of Leicester
Clare Anderson (Leicester) – The Carceral Archipelago Project
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Keynote Speaker 1:
Mary Gibson (CUNY) – Transportation Without Colonies: Perspectives on Internal Exile
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Questions:
Chair: Clare Anderson, University of Leicester
[tab:14th September]MONDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2015
Panel 1 – Connected Australia
Chair: Ruth Lamont (Manchester)
Chris Holdridge (Sydney) – A Plague Upon the Ocean: Convicts, Immigration Restriction and Liberty of Movement in Britain’s Settler Colonies
Kathrin Levitan (College of William and Mary) – ‘I Expect the Ship to Sail every Day’: Convicts and the Post in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Australia
Chris Maxworthy (Sydney) – ‘These English Vermin Upon our Shores’. Sydney Cove and the Juan Fernandez Islands
Kellie Moss and Katherine Roscoe (Leicester) – (Dis)connected Convict Systems: The Transportation of Imperial and Indigenous Convicts to and within Western Australia
Discussant: Tim Causer (UCL):
Discussant: Eureka Henrich (Leicester):
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Keynote Speaker 2:
Hilary Carey (Bristol) – Religion, Reformation and Terror in the British Carceral Archipelago
Chair: Eureka Henrich (Leicester)
AUDIO HERE
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Panel 2 – France: 17th-20th centuries
Chair: Lorraine Paterson (Oxford)
Marie Houllemare (Amiens) – An Experimental Penal Colony in the French Caribbean: The Fort-Royal ‘niggers chain’ (Martinique, 1764-1790)
Nicolas Derasse (Lille 2 University) – The Prison Administration in Morocco under the Era of the French Protectorate: The Improbable Control of an Institution
Briony Neilson (Sydney/ Monash) – ‘Moral Rubbish in Close Proximity’: International Debates on French Penal Colonization in the Late Nineteenth Century
Discussant: Marc Renneville (CNRS Paris):
Discussant: Matthias van Rossum (IISH, Amsterdam):
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Panel 3 – Early Modern and Modern transportation: Comparative Approaches
Chair: Christian G. De Vito (Leicester)
Johan Heinsen (Aalborg) – A “Multitude of Indomitable People” How Convicts Shook the Danish Atlantic
Jennie Jeppesen (Melbourne) – Two Halves of a Whole: The Changes of British Convict Transportation Between Virginia 1611-1776 and Australia 1788-1840
Matthias van Rossum (IISH, Amsterdam) – ‘To be send to the island Allelande’: Convict Islands, Transport and Labour under Dutch East India Company (1650-1800)
Stephanie Mawson (Cambridge) – Unfree Migration in the Seventeenth Century Spanish Pacific: Convict Transportation Between Mexico and the Philippines
Eva Mehl (North Carolina) – Transportation of Mexican Recruits and Vagrants to the Philippines: Relationships of Power in the Periphery of the Spanish Empire, 1765-1811
Discussant: Gwenda Morgan (Newcastle):
Discussant: Timothy Coates (College of Charleston):
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Launch of www.convictvoyages.org – We Are Epic, Web Developers
[tab:15th September]
TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2015
Panel 4 – Internal Colonization/Inner Frontiers
Chair: Teresa Bass-Foster (Maryland)
Francesca Di Pasquale (NIOD, Amsterdam) – The Transient Borders of Penal Colonies: A Comparison Between the Italian Agricultural Penal Colonies in Sardinia and in Libya (1890-1925)
Ryan Edwards (Cornell University) – The Open-Door Panopticon: Exploring Prison and Place in Southern Patagonia, 1902-1947
Minako Sakata (Tomakomai Komazawa University/Leicester) – Erasing Convict and the Indigenous: ‘Internal Colonisation’ in Hokkaido as a Process to Transform the External into the Internal
Discussant: Ben Phillips (UCL):
Discussant: Jessica Hinchy (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore):
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Keynote Speaker 3:
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania) – State and the Crowd: Why Numbers are Important to the Writing of the History of Convict Transportation
Chair: Christian G. De Vito (Leicester)
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Panel 5 – Penal Transportation, Slavery and Other Forms of Coerced Labour
Chair: Clare Anderson (Leicester)
Sarah Pemberton (University of South Florida) – ‘Jail, with the chance of being drowned’: Convict Transportation and the Meaning of Slavery in Locke’s Political Thought
Lauren Bell (Hull) – Murder, Torture and Pain: A Comparative Analysis of Punishment Onboard Slave and Convict Ships, 1787 – 1807
Christian G. De Vito (Leicester) – Entanglements and Disentanglements of Coerced Migrations: Convict Transportation and Slave Trade to and Within Spanish America, 1701-ca.1820s
Enrique Martino (Humboldt University) – Imperial Constructions of Hard Labour: Vagrancy, Prisons and Public Works in Twentieth Century Fernando Po.
Discussants: Ebony Jones (New York University):
Discussant: Anita Rupprecht (Brighton):
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Panel 6 – Political Prisoners
Chair: Mary Gibson (CUNY)
Ilaria Poerio (Reading) – The Fascist Confino: A School of Dissent
Kelly Hignett (Leeds Beckett University) – The Evolution of Forced Labour Camps in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1961
Milica Prokic (Bristol) – Human, Body, Stone: Environmental History of Barren Island as a Part of Yugoslav Political Prison Archipelago (1949-1956)
Grace Huxford (Bristol) – Carceral Confessions: Life-Narrative Practices of Prisoners of War in the Korean War (1950-1953)
Discussant: Natasha Pairaudeau (Cambridge):
Discussant: Paul Moore (Leicester):
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WEDNESDAY 16 September 2015
Panel 7 – Tzarist, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia
Chair: Judith Pallot (Oxford)
Sharyl Corrado (Pepperdine University) – Punishment or Correction? The Contradictory Purposes of the Sakhalin Penal Colony
Carrie Crockett (Leicester) – Engendering Sakhalin: The Agency of Female Prisoners on Sakhalin
Alain Blum (EHESS, Paris) & Emilia Koustova (Strasbourg) – To Exclude and to Integrate: Intertwining of Registers of Action and Actors of Stalinist Deportations in the WWII Aftermath in Lithuania and Ukraine
Zhanna Popova (IISH, Amsterdam) – Confinement and Flux: Experiences of Soviet Prisoners [read by Matthias van Rossum (IISH, Amsterdam)]
Tyler C. Kirk (Arizona State University) – Gulag Returnees and Memory in Post-Soviet Russia
Discussant: Aidan Forth (Loyola University Chicago):
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Zoe Knox (Leicester):
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ROUNDTABLE
Participants:
Clare Anderson, Timothy Coates, Judith Pallot, Lorraine Paterson, Carrie Crockett, Christian G. De Vito, Eureka Henrich, Sarah Longair, Takashi Miyamoto, Kellie Moss, Mikhail Nakonechny, Katherine Roscoe, Minako Sakata
Chair: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania)
