Welcome to the homepage of the conference Speaking as the 'Other' organised by the ERC-funded project CALLIOPE: Vocal Articulations of Parliamentary Identity and Empire at the University of Helsinki. This multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine performative, embodied and acoustic histories of articulating political representation and colonial ‘otherness’. To that end, we intend to extend the focus of the conference beyond established Anglophone analyses of the metropole and colony, and indeed, beyond the disciplinary pre-eminence of Anglophone postcolonial studies.
Click here to watch the welcome address on Unitube!
The conference will be held ONLINE on 10-12 May 2021. For registration, please find further information here.
Le Thinnai Kreyol: Ari Gautier in conversation with Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Sergio Andrés Castrillón A. (University of Helsinki)
The CALLIOPE Team, Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki. Read more on the CALLIOPE Website. Contact the CALLIOPE Conference Team: calliope2021@helsinki.fi
Our sincere gratitude goes out to everyone who has made this conference possible:
Our conference’s sponsor, the European Research Council, funding the CALLIOPE-project through Josephine Hoegaerts’ ERC Starting Grant. The CALLIOPE-team members, hosted by the University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Arts, Department of Cultures, are:
Cover image: “Touring music and dance company in Batavia,” c. 1870, photograph by Isidore van Kinsbergen, from KITLV