Dr. Rachel Gillett

Assistant Professor
Cultural History
Cultural History
r.a.gillett@uu.nl

Activities

2023

Braided Solidarities: Anti-Colonial Activisms and Europe, 1789-2020.Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
8 Mar 2023
, New Research on Europe Seminar

2022

What can Society Learn From Hip HopRachel Gillett (Speaker)
19 Nov 2022
, Dutch Creativity Festival, Amsterdam,
"New Histories of Postcolonial ideas" Historicidagen Rachel Gillett (Organiser)
15 Aug 2022
Teaching beyond the CanonRachel Gillett (Speaker)
11 Aug 2022
, Graduate Women International, 34th Triennial General Assembly and Conference,
A Career in HistoryRachel Gillett (Speaker)
11 Aug 2022
The World of Anton de Kom: anticolonialism, nationalism and resistance within EmpireRachel Gillett (Organiser)
26 Apr 2022
At Home in Our Sounds, Rachel Gillet with Kesewa John and Jonathan BriggsRachel Gillett (Speaker)
23 Jan 2022
, French Press

2021

34th Annual Conference of The Society for the Study of French HistoryRachel Gillett (Participant)
1 Jul 2021
Market Revolutionaries: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Neoliberalism and the Global SouthRachel Gillett (Chair)
27 May 202128 May 2021
Book Presentation: At Home in Our SoundsRachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
12 Apr 2021
The Thirteenth European Social Science History ConferenceRachel Gillett (Participant)
24 Mar 2021
Unsettling Knowledge Seminar SeriesRachel Gillett (Organiser)
4 Feb 20212 Dec 2021

2020

Universiteit Utrecht (Organisational unit)Rachel Gillett (Member)
2020

2019

33rd Annual Conference of The Society for the Study of French HistoryRachel Gillett (Participant)
8 Jul 20199 Jul 2019
Rise Up, Take a KneeRachel Gillett (Organiser)
27 Jun 2019
Unsettling Knowledge SeminarRachel Gillett (Chair)
12 Mar 2019
Universiteit Utrecht (Organisational unit)Rachel Gillett (Member)
2019

2018

"Tams-Tams d'Afrique: Hip Hop and Colonial Memory in France and Belgium"Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
3 Nov 2018
, Western Society for French History Annual Meeting, Portland, Maine
"In opposition/in dialogue: Francophone colonial and African-American thought and culture"Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
26 Oct 2018
, "Revisiting the Black Parisian Moment: transnational black military, musical and intellectual histories, 1918-19"
"Bitter Fruit: Hip Hop's Intellectual Genealogy"Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
9 Oct 2018
, Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History
Settler Colonialism at the BarRachel Gillett (Organiser)
4 Oct 20185 Oct 2018
"BlacKKKlansman: Beyond the Hype of the Movie"Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
1 Oct 2018
Featured speaker for "The Global Sixties" Public ColloquiumRachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
11 Jun 2018
, The Global Sixties
Film Viewing, ‘Black Panther’ and Q&ARachel Gillett (Organiser)
6 Jun 2018
"From the Black Panthers to Black Panther: Black Politics and Representation"Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
2 May 2018

2017

Constructing America | Defining EuropeR.A. Gillett (Organiser)
8 Nov 201710 Nov 2018
Constructing America | Defining EuropeR.A. Gillett (Organiser)
8 Nov 201710 Nov 2017
Securing the World, KNAW ColloquiumRachel Gillett (Chair)
25 Sept 201727 Sept 2017
French Colonial Historical Society (FCHS)43rd Annual Meeting, 2017Rachel Gillett (Participant)
15 Jun 201717 Jun 2017
Utrecht University History Student Association Undergraduate SymposiumRachel Gillett (Participant)
Jan 2017
"Te Puea and the music of dissent"Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
2017
, Dissent and the First World War

2016

International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (Journal)Rachel Gillett (Editorial board member)
Dec 2016Sept 2018
“Who is Charlie? Race and Immigration in France”Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
19 Nov 2016
HERA-Project Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict: Colonials, Neutrals, and Belligerents during the First World War (CEGC)Rachel Gillett (Participant)
Nov 2016
"We are all Migrants," Film Screening and Discussion for HERA project 'Asymmetrical Encounters'Rachel Gillett (Chair)
16 Sept 2016
Imag(in)ing EuropeRachel Gillett (Participant)
16 Sept 2016
Annual Conference of the Society for French Historical StudiesRachel Gillett (Participant)
5 Mar 2016
“Te Puea Sings the War,” Cultural Encounters during Global War, 1914-1918: Spaces, Traces, LegaciesRachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
21 Jan 201622 Jan 2016

2015

Conference Panel for Western Society for French HistoryRachel Gillett (Chair)
25 Oct 2015
Annual Conference of the Society for French Historical StudiesRachel Gillett (Participant)
18 Apr 2015
"World History Graduate Training in the 21st Century"Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
28 Mar 2015
, Northeast Regional World History Association Symposium
Northeast Regional World History Association SymposiumRachel Gillett (Participant)
28 Mar 2015
"Who is Charlie? A Discussion about Race, Terrorism, Immigration, and Secularism in France"Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
12 Feb 2015

2014

“Brothers in Arms? Encounters between Soldiers of Color in World War One”Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
1 Dec 2014
, The Peripheries of World War I
"From Paving Stones to Politics: Europe in 1968"Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
Aug 2014

2013

The 7th Conference of the International Society for First World War StudiesRachel Gillett (Participant)
26 Sept 201327 Sept 2013

2012

“Cosmopolitanism and popular culture: a useful intersection?”Rachel Gillett (Invited speaker)
22 Jun 201224 Jun 2012
French Colonial Historical Society 38th Meeting 2012Rachel Gillett (Chair)
1 Jun 2012
58th Annual Meeting of The Society for French Historical StudiesRachel Gillett (Participant)
24 Mar 2012

2011

57th Annual Meeting of The Society for French Historical StudiesRachel Gillett (Participant)
12 Feb 2011
Congres American Historical AssociationRachel Gillett (Participant)
8 Jan 2011

2010

38th Annual Meeting for The Western Society for French HistoryRachel Gillett (Participant)
21 Oct 2010
World Historical Association Conference Rachel Gillett (Participant)
24 Jun 201027 Jun 2010