PUBLIC LECTURE: PROFESSOR LAURA ANN STOLER
In association with the Institute of Romance Studies' conference on
"Culture, Colonisation and Decolonisation in South East and South
Asia: French, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch Perspectives," the AHRB
Centre for Asian and African Literatures (UCL/SOAS) will host a
public lecture by Professor Ann Laura Stoler of the University of
Michigan on Friday, 21 February 2003 at 5.30 pm in the Main School
Lecture Theatre at SOAS. Stoler will speak on Habits of a Colonial
Heart: The Affective Grid of Racial Politics.
A renowned scholar of race, gender, and sexuality in colonial South
East Asia, Stoler is currently completing a book entitled Along the
Archival Grain: Colonial Cultures and Their Affective States. She
is the author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's
History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995), and her
articles have appeared in a variety of historical, anthropological,
and gender studies journals, including Representations and
Comparative Studies in Society and History.
A reception celebrating Stoler's new book, Carnal Knowledge and
Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (California,
2002) will follow her presentation. The lecture is free and open to
all. For further information, contact Dr Ross Forman,
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CULTURE, COLONISATION AND DECOLONISATION:
FRENCH, PORTUGUESE, SPANISH AND DUTCH PERSPECTIVES
FRIDAY 21 AND SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2003
INSTITUTE OF ROMANCE STUDIES,
SENATE HOUSE
Sponsored in part by the Centre, this dynamic conference will examine
the cultural consequences of the colonisation and decolonisation
process in areas of South East and South Asia that have attracted
relatively little attention in the English-speaking world: former
French Indochina; Guam, Macau, East Timor, Goa; the Philippines; the
former Dutch East Indies. It aims to facilitate a dialogue across
cultures and disciplines that will expand awareness of the different
cultural, social and political processes involved, and will offer
ways of thinking about colonisation and the post-colonial that go
beyond dominant British models.
In addition to Ann Laura Stoler's public lecture, the conference will
feature keynote addresses by Joćo Pina-Cabral (University of Lisbon),
speaking on New Age Warriors: Negotiating the Handover in the Streets
of Macao; Ambeth Ocampo (Chairman, National Historical Institute of
the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila); Rosa Maria Perez and Stefan
Halikowski Smith (Brown University), speaking on Colonisation and
Decolonisation in Portuguese India; Peter Carey (University of
Oxford), speaking on Third World Colonialism and the Birth of a New
Nation: Indonesia through East Timorese Eyes (1975-1999); and
Panivong Norindr (University of Southern California), speaking on On
the Margins of Culture: Ho Chi Minh's Corp(u)s. These keynotes are
open only to registered participants.
Further information, a full programme and booking form are available
from the Institute of Romance Studies (http://www.sas.ac.uk/irs,
email: [log in to unmask], tel. 020 7862 8677).
*Please note that when booking, students and staff of the Languages
and Cultures Faculty at SOAS and of the Department of Dutch at UCL
are eligible to register for the conference at the concessionary rate
for IRS members.
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Ross G. Forman
AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures at UCL and SOAS
Room 389
School of Oriental and African Studies
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
http://www.soas.ac.uk/literatures
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