Events

A Conversation with Louise Hornby and Dora Zhang (Berkeley).

Alison Bigelow, Assistant Professor, colonial Latin American literature, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia. Talk Title: Mining Language: Extractive Industries and Indigenous Knowledge Production in the Early Americas Talk Description: Between 1500 and 1820, three out of every four people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean were enslaved Africans. They arrived to a...

A Reading by Joy Harjo

The Spanish-American Number: Travel, Translation, and the Literary History of Modernism Peter Hulme, University of Essex Mines, Minerals, Mimesis, and Memory Rajani Sudan, Southern Methodist University This event was organized by the Postcolonial Theory and Literary Studies Colloquium and made possible by generous support from the Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese.

by Michael Rothberg

“Unruly Visions: The Queer Regional Imaginaries of Sunil Gupta and Agha Shahid Ali” ABSTRACT:  This talk considers the work of two contemporary South Asian diasporic artists, the poet Agha Shahid Ali and the photographer Sunil Gupta, within the framework of archive, region, and affect that Gopinath develops in her recently published book Unruly Visions.  Gopinath...

A talk by Pablo Mukherjee

Testimony for the Future: State Redemption as an Art of the Impossible in Contemporary Novels on Genocide In my book project, “Arts of the Impossible: Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Reconstructing State Memory and Collective Trauma in Contemporary Literature,” I examine how and why non-Western writers from 1984 to the present fabricate several genres of archival...