MLA 2016: Special Sessions on Literary and Cultural Studies in Malaysia and Singapore
At the upcoming Modern Language Association 2016 Convention in Austin, Texas, there will be three special sessions on literary and…
Work-in-Progress: A Paper on Artistic Engagements with Bersih
In light of the upcoming Bersih 4 protests, happening on 29-30 August 2015, I’m sharing a paper I presented on…
Just published: “Epistemological Checkpoint”
My essay, “Epistemological Checkpoint: Reading Fiction as a Translation of History,” has just been published by the journal, Postcolonial Text….
Just published: “Epistemological Checkpoint”
My essay on Han Suyin’s …And the Rain My Drink (1956), a novel on the British counter-insurgency in Malaya often…
Mar 16, Subaltern Royalism and Revolution in Colombia’s Southwest, 1808-1820
The CUNY Graduate Center Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2011-2012 The Postcolonial Studies Group presents: Co-sponsored by the Colombian Studies…
Feb 28, Troubling Borders: The Case of the sans-papiers in France
The CUNY Graduate Center Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2011-2012 The Postcolonial Studies Group presents: Catherine Raissiguier New Jersey City…
Nov 16, DRIVING WITH FANON film screening
Please join us for our first event of the year, during which we will also kick-off an exploration of our theme…
Summer Reading Group
The following are the reading lists for previously held summer reading groups. SUMMER 2009 June Cheah, Pheng. Spectral Nationality: Passages of…
Past Events: 2008 and before
Some of our past events include: Gayatri Spivak in conversation with Peter Hitchcock about Other Asias (Spring 08). “Writing Across Borders” Asian Women Writers, with Meena…
Reclaiming Secularism? Reading Women and Religion in Contemporary Hindu India
The CUNY Graduate Center Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2010-2011 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan New York University Reclaiming Secularism? Reading Women…
Ruling Like a Foreigner: Literature, Theory and the Question of Third World Authoritarianism
The CUNY Graduate Center Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2009-2010 The Postcolonial Studies Group presents: Jini Kim Watson New York…
