International Conference

Conception: Benjamin Zachariah, Potsdam, and Jolita Zabarskaitė, Bonn
With Andrea Benvenuti, Sydney; Kingshuk Chatterjee, Calcutta; Carlos Fraenkel, Montreal; Bernd Greiner, Hamburg; Vera Mey, London; Philippe Pirotte, Brussels; Indah Wahyu Puji Utami, Malang; Robert Vitalis, Philadelphia

In April 1955, representatives of twenty-nine Asian and African countries met in Bandung, Indonesia, for a conference that was, among other things, the first major diplomatic gathering to which the People’s Republic of China was invited. When it is remembered at all, memories of the Bandung Conference have overpowered its history: Its afterlife is recalled mostly in terms of nostalgia for Afro-Asian solidarity, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the Cold War. This conference seeks, seventy years on, to revisit Bandung’s hauntings or hangovers in history, memory, and other forms of narratives and retellings.