From Sean:
I have received the following
information:
Afterlives of
Postcolonialism
An
international conference on Postcolonial theory, weekend of October
25-26
Location: Small Cinema,
Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, New Cross
How to get there: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/
Cost:
free
Further information: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/postcolonial-studies/
In recent times some
scholars have proclaimed that postcolonial theory has exhausted its critical
energies- at the very time that it has been taken up by scholars and activists
not located in English or Literature departments, the area where postcolonial
theory made its early impact and sometimes found an institutional home. The
Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths is organising a conference on the
“Afterlives of Postcolonialism”- the ‘after’ referring both to its life/lives
after the proclamation of its death, and also to its life after/outside the
study of literature. In what ways can/has postcolonial theory been taken up by
artists, architects and scholars of art and architecture, by those who study
politics, anthropology and sociology, and area studies, and to what effects?
Does it merely provide another way of ‘reading’ texts, to does it have the
potential to destabilize and reconfigure practices and disciplines? And what
happens to postcolonial theory when it moves into politics, art, sociology, and
area studies; what mutations does it undergo, or need to undergo? Drawing upon
speakers from a range of geographical (India, the U.S., South Africa, Palestine,
the U.K.) and disciplinary locations (everything from architecture to art, film,
music, politics…), involving practitioners as well as theorists, this conference
asks whether postcolonial theory still has any life in it- and what sorts of
lives it is leading once it travels outside of
literature.
Confirmed speakers
include:
Harry Harootunian, History and
East Asian Studies, New York University
Lindsay Waters, Harvard University
Press (Executive Editor of Humanities)
Ivor Chipkin, University of
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Eyal
Weizman, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths Robert Fine, Sociology, Warwick University Sandi Hilal, UNRWA, West Bank Rangan
Chakravarty, film producer, Kolkota Alessandro Petti,
International Art Academy, Palestine Gurminder
Bhambra, Sociology, Warwick University Paramita
Brahmachari, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkota
Any
enquiries, please contact
E-mail: s.seth <http://www.gold.ac.uk/about/contact/form/?to=s.seth&name=Sanjay+Seth&subject=Event%3A+Afterlives+of+Postcolonialism>
@gold.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7919
7740