Der Vortrag wird auf Englisch gehalten.
 

This talk by Anaheed Al-Hardan examines the 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia, where twenty-nine Asian and African leaders established principles of national independence, anticolonialism, and mutual cooperation. Drawing from Al-Hardan's book project African-Asian Anticolonialism: Reimagining Arab Freedom and Internationalist Solidarity, the analysis explores how African-Asian anticolonial networks, particularly after relocating to Cairo in the late 1950s, generated new forms of social thought and solidarity among postcolonial nation-states. The chapter argues that anticolonial struggles against European and US imperialism produced important theoretical insights that have been largely overlooked by humanities and social sciences as sources of dissident knowledge. The work also addresses the methodological challenges of recovering this anticolonial social theory across vast transnational geographies, histories, languages, and archives.

Anaheed Al-Hardan is an associate professor of sociology at Howard University. She is the author of the award-winning  Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities (Columbia University Press, 2016) and co-editor (with Julian Go) Anticolonialism and Social Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2025). She is the Principal Investigator on Afro-Asian Futures Past, a multi-institutional collaborative research program across different African and Asian universities examining the decolonization era across the two continents. She is currently working on a book that examines African-Asian anticolonialism in the Arab world during the decolonization era.

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