Journalism, Empire, and Decolonisation
9-10 September 2021 City, University of London
Conference Programme
Day 1, Thursday 9 September
09.30-11.00 Keynote 1
Chandrika Kaul: “What do they know of Kipling who only Kipling know: Mediascapes of Empire”
Introduced by Sarah Lonsdale 11.00-11.30 Tea & Coffee
11.30-13.00 Panel 1: Journalism & Fiction
Chair: Dominic Davies
Élodie Raimbault, ‘“Tell it as a lie”: the Ambiguous Blend of Fiction and Journalism in Kipling’s Many Inventions’
Angela Eyre, ‘“Tods Amendment”, the Native-born Child, and Debates Over Tenancy Legislation’
Minna Vuohelainen, ‘Rudyard Kipling’s Imperial Gothic short fiction and the periodical press
14.00-15.30 Panel 2: Translating Kipling
Chair: Alex Bubb
Harish Trivedi, ‘Kipling and the Indian Vernacular Press: Countering The Pioneer’ Mohammad Saleem, ‘Shaking Off the Colonial Burden: Revisiting Resistance Literature in India during British Rule’
Monica Turci, ‘Rudyard Kipling in Antonio Gramsci’s Journalism’ 15.30-16.00 Tea & Coffee
16.00-17.30 Panel 3: Empires
Chair: Kaori Nagai
Vinita Dhondiyal Bhatnagar, ‘Opium, Empire and the Orient: Reading Kipling in the Context of Narcopolitics’
Aaron Ackerley, ‘Rudyard Kipling, the Press Barons, and Visions of Empire’ Dominic Davies, ‘The Kipling Scrapbooks and the End of Empire’
18.00-19.00 Keynote 2
Elleke Boehmer, “Kipling’s Currency: a Conversation” with Dom Davies
Day 2, Friday 10 September
09.30-11.00 Keynote 3
Harry Ricketts: “Following Kipling’s Footsteps in Rajasthan”
Introduced by Jan Montefiore
11.30-13.00 Panel 4: Newspapers & their Owners
Chair: Sarah Lonsdale
George Simmers, ‘The Fun of Fake News: “The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat” and “Dayspring Mishandled”’
Howard Booth, ‘Rethinking Kipling’s First World War propaganda: the case of France at War’ David Richards, ‘Kipling & The Friend: Boers, Badges, and Bibliography’
14.00-15.30 Panel 5: Kipling’s Literary Legacy
Chair: Dominic Davies
Jill Didur, ‘Reimaging Kipling: Mixing Fiction and Journalism in The Kipling File’
Sarah Lonsdale, “If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken mansplained back to you’: Feminist Parodies of Kipling’s ‘If.’’
Gary Enstone, ‘Living with Rudyard Kipling and his legacy in a 21st Century World’ 15.30-16.00 Tea & Coffee
16.00-17.30 Keynote 4
Janet Montefiore: “Run and find out’: Rudyard Kipling as junior reporter’
Introduced by Dominic Davies
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