April 17, 2025
Presented by Elisabeth Leake is an associate professor of history and the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, decolonization resulted in the political and administrative fracturing of empires into nation-states. But for many people, attaining independence was only the beginning: decolonization necessitated revolutionary individual and global change. This lecture explores the ways in which anti-colonial mobilization continued after the “moment” of decolonization, focusing particularly on the significance of oppositional politics and social movements. In turn, it traces some of the ways in which “decolonization” has assumed new meaning in the twenty-first century.
About the Speaker: Elisabeth Leake is an associate professor of history and the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She is the author of The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-65 and the award-winning Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan. Her next book is Freedom! A Global History of Decolonization.
This talk is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 6PM for light refreshments prior to the talk.
Further information
- Location: Stern Great Room
- Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
- Cost: Free