Tuesday, June 17

PANEL 1 – FAMILIES, HOME, INTIMACIES

• Clément Fabre (Sorbonne Université) : The Domestic Laboratory of Imperial Prestige: Interactions Between Western Masters and Chinese Servants in 19th-Century China.
• Nassima Mekaoui Chebout (EHESS) : Colonized Women, Domestic Work and Difference : Afro-Christian and Muslim « Fatmas » in Algeria and Morocco (XXth Century).
• Eleonore Devevey (UNIGE, Département de langue et de littérature françaises modernes) : Boys’ Lives and Household Dramas: Imperial Domesticity Through the Lens of Literature.
• Benjamin Badier (Université d’Artois) : Serving the colonised ruler: French and Moroccan servants of the Sultan under the French Protectorate in Morocco (1912-1956).

PANEL 2 - CHILDHOOD

• Fae Dussart (Geography, University of Sussex): "Unprotected orphan girls" at he heart of Empire: care, co-ercion and child domestic labour in mid-19th century Britain.
• Bethan Holt (University of Glasgow): Colonial care and domestic labour: Children’s encounters with missionaries in 19th century British West Indies and Mauritius.
• Maysa Espindola Souza (UNIGE): Between care and exploitation: the labor of Indigenous minors in Portuguese Guinea (1900- 1960).

Screening of La Noire de…, Ousmane Sembène

Presentation by Clyde Plumauzille (CNRS) and Caroline Ibos (CNRS), followed by a discussion.

Wednesday, June 18

PANEL 3 - CONSTRAINTS, RESISTANCE, AND AGENCY

• Gildas Igor Noumbou Tetam (Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques de Lausanne) : “The Populations Must Stay in the Village to Prepare Food for the Soldiers”: Maintenance and Management of Camps in the Cameroonian Maquis (1956–1971).
• Orion Déchand (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) : Between Endured Violence and the Power to Act: Domestic Trajectories in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 17th Century.

PANEL 4 - LOCAL DYNAMICS, INDIVIDUAL TRAJECTORIES

• Violaine Tisseau (CNRS): Rewarding Loyalty: Colonial Imaginaries and Individual Journeys Through Work Medal Files in Madagascar (1920s).
• Stéphanie Soubrier (UNIGE): “A Man Without Roots”: Belongings and unbelonging in Seydou Traoré’s life story.
• Pedro Cerdeira (UNIGE): “Girls in Civilized Families”: Domestic Work and the Politics of Difference in Portuguese Guinea (1945-1974).

PANEL 5 - MOBILITIES, CIRCULATIONS, EXILE

• Swapna Banerjee (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York): Mobile Domesticity: Recuperating Travelling Ayahs from the Nineteenth-century Colonial Archive.
• Claire Lowrie (University of Wollongong, Australia): Travelling Chinese amahs in Britain and France and Australia, 1870s-1930s.
• Romy Sánchez (CNRS): Serving an Imperial Exile: Searching for Domesticity Among Cuban Separatists of New York, 1873.
• Frances Steel (University of Otago, New Zealand): Goan stewards at sea between empires and states, c.1890s-1960s.

Thursday, June 19

PANEL 6 – DOMESTIC WORK AND SERVILE LABOR

• Céline Flory (CNRS), On the margins of indentured labour: being an “indentured immigrant” and domestic servant in post-slavery Guyana (second half of the 19th century).
• Victoria Haskins (University of Newcastle, Australia): ‘Traited no better than a slave’: Ayahs, exploitation, and domestic power in the early Australian colonies.
• Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht University): Care and Coercion. Patriarchy, (Forced) Labour and Caregiving in the Household in the Dutch Empire, c. 1750-Present.
• Julie Hardwick (University of Texas): A tale of two households of seamstresses: labor, violence, fugitivity as the keys to the experiences of free and enslaved black women in eighteenth-century Nantes.