Workshop on Technology, Empire, and Decolonization in South Asia
ZoomAditya Ramesh will speak on“Technology as economy, economics and ecology: rice mills, hydro-power and wells in south India” with comments from respondent David Arnold (Warwick) as part of the Spring 2021 Workshop on Technology, Empire, and Decolonization in South Asia. Papers will be pre-circulated ten days in advance of the event. Register on Zoom to […]
Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture: Auerbach, Homer, Sebald: Hypotactic Narrative and the End of the World
ZoomThis year's Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Daniel Mendelsohn (Bard College). He will ponder Erich Auerbach’s theories of narrative, focusing in particular on the great German-Jewish philologist’s comparison between Homeric and Biblical narrative style in the first chapter of Mimesis. In this lecture, Mendelsohn examines the novels of W. G. Sebald in […]
Collaborative Archaeologies of Settler Colonialism in the Maya Lowlands
ZoomLatin American and Caribbean theorists of the 20th century have characterized the ongoing systems of social order and knowledge production engendered by European colonialism across the American hemisphere as coloniality. In this talk, Tiffany C. Fryer (Society of Fellows, Humanities Council and Anthropology) gives a talk on how brings this scholarship on coloniality into conversation […]
