Saturday 31 May 2003

Fellows’ Dining Room, St Antony’s College

10 am to 6 pm

10. 00 Introduction: William Beinart (St Antony’s, University of Oxford)

Session 1: International Perspectives on Anti-Apartheid (Chair: W Beinart)

• Robert JC Young (University of Oxford): "Fanon and the Turn to Armed Struggle in Africa"
• Roger Fieldhouse (University of Exeter): "The Anti-Apartheid Movement’s relations with the liberation movements in southern Africa"
• Håkan Thörn (University of Gothenburg): "Anti-Apartheid, `New Social Movements´ and the Globalisation of Politics"
• Rob Skinner  (University of Sussex): "Turbulent priests or movement intellectuals?  Christian voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s" 

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00 Lucy McCann (Archivist, Rhodes House Library, University of  Oxford): The AAM archives

Session 2: National Anti-Apartheid Movements: Denmark, Netherlands and Britain (Chair: H Thörn)

• Genevieve Klein (University of Pretoria): "Nederland tegen apartheid? Government and Anti- Apartheid Movements"
• Christopher Morgenstierne (University of Copenhagen): "Danish AA organisations: Their inspiration, approach and impact on official policies"
• Elizabeth Williams (Birkbeck College, University of London): "Black Activism and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain"
• Christabel Gurney (former editor Anti-Apartheid News): "Pragmatism and principle: British Labour and the Anti-Apartheid Movement"

If you would like to attend, please register with: ulli.parkinson@sant.ox.ac.uk or

Ulli Parkinson, St Antony’s College, Oxford OX2 6JF, tel 01865-274477 / 274470.

Registration fee £5 (students exempted) payable on the day; self-service canteen lunch available.