Please join us for a conversation between transnational American Studies and Postcolonial Studies with Eric Lott, Kandice Chuh, Peter Hitchcock, Duncan Faherty, and Meena Alexander! I’ve attached the flier so please circulate widely.
FRIDAY, FEB 28, 2014
4:00 PM, GC RM 4406
Over the last decade, scholars have re-imagined the interdisciplinary field of American
studies through the frameworks of transnationalism, globalization, and diaspora,
bringing to the field’s center questions of racialization, difference, and neoliberal
empire. This shift does the important work of “decolonizing” American studies itself
— and indeed those literatures and cultures with which it is concerned — and of
challenging postcolonial studies, which has long utilized transnational perspectives, to
assess the relevance and efficacy of its methodologies.
Please join us for a conversation about these fields’ convergences and disagreements,
moderated by students and featuring members of the Graduate Center’s English and
American studies faculties. This event is organized by the Postcolonial Studies Group
and hosted by the PhD Program in English as part of its Friday Forum series.
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
