Empire and Me: Personal Explorations of Imperialism in Reality and Imagination

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Is imperialism really dead? What did people close up to colonialism or affected by its immediate aftermath make of it in their personal writings and remembrances?

This conference marks the Centenary of The Round Table, which came in to being to promote the British Empire but which has evolved into a forward-looking organisation facilitating robust discussion of international affairs, especially as they pertain to the modern Commonwealth. In Empire and Me, Cumberland Lodge and the Round Table combine to talk about imperialism in literature. There will be a particular focus on colonial and post-colonial diaries, memoirs, autobiographies and other kinds of recollections conceived or written against a colonial or post-colonial background. The conference brings together writers, scholars and enthusiastic readers to ask whether imperialism is truly a thing of the past or alive and kicking in today’s world, but expressing itself in a different vocabulary and in other circumstances.

Amongst others, speakers include: