Armed Forces in Time of Decolonisation

Programme

Thursday, 22 November

14.00 Introduction and Welcome: Steffen Prauser, Peter Gray

14.15 The Flow of Knowledge and Information.

• Gavin Bowd, (University of St. Andrews) A Cartographer of Conflict: Pierre Gourou and the Indo-Chinese Wars.
• Julia Heinemann (Universität Freiburg) Military Media Practices in Indochina and Algeria. A Diachronic Comparison .
• Discussant: Peter Gray  (University of Birmingham)

15.30 The Army between Motherland and Colonies.

Luís Rodrigues (ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon) Regime and Empire: the Portuguese Armed Forces and the Beginning of Colonial War in Angola.

Geraud Letang (Sciences Po - Paris) The Last Colonial Heroes ? "Chadian" Troops during World War II.

Discussant: Frédéric Guelton (IHA)

17.00 Native and Auxiliary Troops.

• Tim Hicks (University of Birmingham) The Indian Army 1939-1947: A Colonial Institution under Stress.
• José Luis Rodriguez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Camino del Molino) The Suppression of the Association of Nomadic Troops, a Unit of Spanish Army, for the Province of Sahara.
• Roel Frakking (EUI - European University Institute, Florence) The Organisation of Indigenous Security Forces in Indonesia, 1945-1950.
• Discussant: Raphaëlle Branche (IHA/ Université Paris 1)

Friday, 23 November

9.15 Irregular Warfare, Ordinary Army: the Case of Algeria.

• Terrence Peterson (Univesity of Wisconcin) "Play to Win": French Army Youth Sports Camps and Psychological Warfare in Algeria, 1957-1962.
• Denis Leroux (IHA/ Université Paris 1) The Making of “Algérie nouvelle”. Militarian Utopia during the War in Algeria.
• Fabien Sacriste (Toulouse le Mirail) French Army, Population “Regroupements” and “Pacification” Policy during  the Algerian War for Independence (1954-1962)". 
• Discussant: Nicola Labanca (Università di Siena)

11.15 Colonial Troops in times of War and Occupation

• Claire Miot (ENS Cachan) Colonial Soldiers in the First French Army (1944-1945): Deception, Discontent   or Questioning of the Colonial Order?
• Fátima Rodrigues (Universidade de Coimbra) African Troops in the Portuguese Armed Forces during the Wars of Decolonization (1961-1974).
• Karen Adler (University of Nottingham) Indigènes after "Indigènes"? North African Troops in the French Army of Occupation in Western Germany .
• Discussant: Steffen Prauser (IHA/University of Birmingham)

Conclusions: Raphaëlle Branche, Peter Gray, Nicolas Labanca, Steffen Prauser