CRASSH

Postcolonial Empires:
Transnational Being and Ontological Politics

Programme 2010-11

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Easter Term 2011

Church Tu'n Mi Fool: Deconstructing Black Christian Confessional Belief in Postcolonial Britain

Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Dr Anthony Reddie (The Queens, Foundation, Birmingham)

Gender Separatism and Extremism

Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Workshop: Free, online registration required

Transnational Islam and Colonial Critique: Jamaluddin Afghani and Amir Abdul Rahman Khan's Political Activism

Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Dr Pervaiz Nazir (POLIS)

Secular Ways of War

Wednesday, 1 Jun 2011
Dr Stacey Gutkowski (University of Sussex)

Lent Term 2011

'Australian Constructions of "Mixed Race"'and 'Manaakitanga/Welcome to the Country?'

Wednesday, 26 Jan 2011
Lyn Dickens (University of Sydney) and Dr. Emma Cox (Royal Holloway)

Comparing Peaceful Sufis and Warrior Saints in Pakistan: Tthe Case of Shaykh Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani

Wednesday, 9 Feb 2011
Dr Pnina Werbner (Keele)

The Conquest Upside-Down. Identity and Otherness in Contemporary Hispanic Narrative

Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011
Professor Guido Rings (Anglia Ruskin University)

Literary Canon Formation and Imbalance in Cuba

Wednesday, 9 Mar 2011
Dr Parvathi Kumaraswami (Manchester)

Michaelmas Term 2010

Historicising Ontological Encounter

Ontological Politics: Roundtable Discussion

Wednesday, 13 Oct 2010
Chair: Dr David Lehmann (Director of Centre of Latin American Studies), Discussants: Dr Tarak Barkawi (POLIS) and Dr. Lori Allen (AMES).

The Failures of the 1992 Commemorations in the Caribbean Basin: Towards a Post National/Post Columbus Caribbean Ontology

Wednesday, 27 Oct 2010
Fabienne Viala (CLAS)

Anthropology as Cultural Translation: Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land

Wednesday, 10 Nov 2010
Dr. Claire Chambers (Leeds Metropolitan University)

Mohammad Iqbal's poetry

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2010
Professor Javed Majeed (Queen Mary, University of London) and guest chair Pervaiz Nazir (POLIS)