NYU Postcolonial Seminar
 
open to all those with an interest in postcolonial studies

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Photo credit: Street food vendor, India, February 2007 (c) Robert JC Young


Postcolonialism and the hit of
the real

 

Conference 6-8 March 2008
New York University

Keynote speakers:

Pheng Cheah (University of California, Berkeley)
Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
Alok Rai (University of Delhi)

plus
Plenary Panel:
Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research)
David Lloyd (University of Southern California)
John Waters (NYU)
Robert JC Young (NYU)

with the participation of Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

plus 20 panels, including panels on French, German, Italian, Japanese colonialism,
on Ireland and Postcolonialism, Islam and Postcoloniality, &c

Program


Conference theme

 

New York Information: travel & accommodation

 

All events are free and open to the public
but anyone who is not giving a paper and
does not have an NYU ID card
*MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE*
by emailing pococonference2008@gmail.com
giving name, and institutional affiliation.
Please bring Photo ID with you

Sponsored by:
Anglophone Research Project, Department of English, NYU
Deutsches Haus, NYU
NYU Humanities Initiative

Co-sponsors:
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Mariṃ

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU
Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts
Comparative Literature Department, NYU
Department of French, NYU
Department of German, NYU
Glucksman Ireland House
Department of Italian Studies, NYU
Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU

Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
 

Contact:
pococonference2008@gmail.com

 

 

Images: Dancers celebrating a wedding, Southall, London, June 2007