Postcolonial Empires: Rhetorics of Resistance 2008-09

Alternate Wednesdays in term
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Michaelmas Term 2008

Wednesday 15 October at 5.00pm
A discussion to be lead by Priya Gopal (Fac of English, University of Cambridge)
The Continuing Relevance of Frantz Fanon

The following recommended readings will be made available:
Frantz Fanon, ‘Colonialism and Medicine’, from A Dying Colonialism
Frantz Fanon, ‘Concerning Violence’ from The Wretched of the Earth

Wednesday 29 October at 5.00pm
Working the Field: Pierre Bourdieu’s Postcolonial Encounters’

A reading and discussion group in which we will explore some of Pierre Bourdieu's early Algerian ethnographic work.

Our intention is to discover the extent to which Bourdieu’s Algerian experience influenced his later thinking.

Readings:

1. Pierre Bourdieu. "War as Cultural Agent" from Chapter 7 of 'The Algerians'.

2. Bill Ashcroft. "Habitation". New Literature Review 34 (1997). 27-41.

3. Pierre Bourdieu. "The economic conditions for transformed economic dispositions", Chapter 4 of 'Algeria 1960'.

Also hard copies available at CRASSH-Reception

Wednesday 12 November at 5.00pm
Dr Jim House (University of Leeds) Senior Lecturer in French and Co-director of the Institute of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Readings

Wednesday 26 November at 12.15pm
The Continuing Relevance of Postcolonial Theory

Colloquium, at which graduate students are invited to present papers outlining the contribution and relevance of postcolonial theory either to their own research or to the field in which they work.

Lent Term 2009

Wednesday 21 January at 5.00pm
Dr Rory O'Bryen (University Lecturer in Latin American Literature and Culture. University of Cambridge)
Readings online (click this link)

Wednesday 4 February at 5.00pm
Dr Emily Morris (Senior Research Fellow, International Institute for the Study of Cuba. Previously Senior Editor of the Economic Intelligence Unit)

Wednesday 18 February at 5.00pm
Prof Nicola Miller (Professor of Latin American History and Head of the History Department at UCL)
Readings online (click this link)

Wednesday 4 March Evening Film
Venue: Pembroke College