Tomoki Yamada

Thesis title:

The League of Nations Mandates System as a Trans-imperial Arena of (Anti-)Colonialism

I am a second-year PhD student at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. Before starting my doctoral studies in Birmingham, I obtained a master’s degree in contemporary history at Kyoto University in Japan.

My research interests pertain to transimperial history, global history, anti-colonialism and the League of Nations.

A central theme of my doctoral project has been to explore anti-colonial petitioning and the League of Nations mandates system as a transimperial arena of colonialism and anti-colonialism.

Research Area

History
Imperial/Colonial History

Publications

'Meeting Dr Sakiko Nakao, the Author of Nationaliser le panafricanisme : La décolonisation au Sénégal, en Haute-Volta et au Ghana (1945–1962)', CTH Newsletter, 3, 3–6, 2023.

'Indians and Tanganyika: Colonisation Ideas, the Mandates System and Petitions to the League of Nations', Shakai kagaku, 52(4), 117–149, 2023 [in Japanese].

'Meeting Professor Kristin Hoganson and Professor Jay Sexton, the Co-editors of Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain', CTH Newsletter, 2, 1–4, 2023.

'Meeting Dr Samuël Coghe, the Author of Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, Health and Transimperialism in Colonial Angola', CTH Newsletter, 1, 1–3, 2022.

'Beyond Imperial Borders: Recent Scholarship on Trans-imperial History', Shakai kagaku, 50(3), 49–60, 2020 [in Japanese].

Conferences

'Writing Petitions Beyond Empire: Togolese Anticolonialism and West African Print Culture circa 1920', 67th African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, 12 December 2024.
'Ripples from South West Africa: The Bondelswarts Rebellion and Transimperial Dissenting Voices', New Approaches to Transimperial History, Universität Leipzig, 7 December 2024.
'African Studies from the Other Shore: African American Intellectuals and the League of Nations Mandates', How Africans Narrated "African History": "African Historiographies" from Local Histories in Africa, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan, 24 November 2024 [in Japanese].
''Anti-imperial Groundwater' in West Africa: Togolese Anticolonial Petitioning in a Transimperial Nexus, 1918–23', 33rd World History Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco State University, 29 June 2024.

''Send All Complaints [to] the League of Nations': Togolese Anticolonial Petitioning across Imperial Boundaries, 1918–23', 2e Rendez-vous d’histoire coloniale : (Anti)colonialisme et (inter)nationalisme, Archives diplomatiques de Nantes, 21 June 2024.

''Anti-imperial Groundwater' Flowing through West Africa: Petitions from Togo and the League of Nations Mandates System, 1918–22', 48th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society / 48e congrès annuel de la Société historique coloniale française, University of Virginia, 25 May 2024.
'Collaboration for Transimperial History', Collaborations Roundtable, Transimperial and Anti-colonial History Group at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh [Online], 12 April 2024.

'Tanganyika and Indians in the Interwar Transimperial Settings: Colonial Aspirations and Anti-colonial Petitioning', 66th African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco Marriott Marquis, 30 November 2023.

'Togo in a Trans-imperial Nexus: Petitions from West Africa and the League of Nations Mandates System, 1918–1922', LSE International History Research Seminar, London School of Economics and Political Science, 11 October 2023.

'Anti-colonial Petitioning and the League of Nations Mandates System as a Trans-imperial Nexus', Culture, Power and Identity: School of History and Cultures Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Birmingham, 5 May 2023.

'The League of Nations Mandates System as a Trans-imperial Arena of (Anti-)Colonialism', PG Research Gathering, University of Birmingham, 18 April 2023.

'Indians and Tanganyika: Colonialism, the Mandates System and Petitions to the League of Nations, c. 1914–27', 8th Global History Collaborative Summer Institute, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 30 August 2022.

'British Colonial Education and F. Lugard: India, Africa, and Hong Kong', Doshisha Studies in Colonialism, Doshisha University, 26 October 2020 [in Japanese].

'Frederick Lugard's Education Policies and the Politics of Comparison Between British Colonies in the Early Twentieth Century: India, Nigeria, and Hong Kong', Historians' Workshop 8th Research Showcase, University of Tokyo, 1 August 2019.

Memberships

Center for Transimperial History (as Coordinator)
African Studies Association
French Colonial Historical Society / Société d'histoire coloniale française
World History Association

Conference Organisation

New Approaches to Transimperial History, Universität Leipzig, 5–7 December 2024. https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/zentrum/detailansicht/termin/tih-workshop
Changing Landscapes: Postgraduate Conference, School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music, University of Birmingham, 1 May 2024. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/events/2024/changing-landscapes-postgraduate-conference
2nd Early Career Conference, Historians' Workshop, online, 31 August 2020. https://historiansworkshop.org/2020/08/17/vecc/