Seminars
The group meets regularly during term time to discuss general theoretical issues in colonial and postcolonial studies and recent influential texts. Some seminar sessions are devoted to presentations by group members and/or visiting scholars.
Seminar Schedule: 2009-10
Term Three
26 May 2010 3.30–6.30pm (MB003 - Management Building)
Group screening of Xala (1975), directed by pioneering Sengalese film-maker Ousmane Sembéne, followed by discussion, snacks and end-of-year drinks. All welcome – no sign-up necessary.
Tea will be served from 5.30pm.
Readings:
- Marcia Landy, ‘Political Allegory and “Engaged Cinema”: Sembene’s Xala’, Cinema Journal 23.3 (1984): 31-46.
- Fredric Jameson, ‘Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism’, Social Text 15 (Autumn, 1986): 65-88.
- Santiago Colás, ‘The Third Wold in Jameson’s Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’, Social Text 31/32 (1992): 258-70.
Also available here if anyone would like to read it is another response to Jameson:
Aijaz Ahmad, ‘Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and the “National Allegory”’, Social Text 17 (Autumn 1987): 65-88.
Seminar Schedule (Archive)
5 May 2010
‘Subaltern Space’, with Dr Dan Clayton (University of St Andrews).
24 February 2010
Reading seminar: 'Thing Theory' (joint session with RHUL Victorian Studies Centre).
27 January 2010
‘Fiction and the Culture of Emigration’, with Professor Josephine McDonagh (Kings College).
25 November 2009
Reading Seminar: sections from Achille Mbembé’s On the Postcolony. (Joint event with Research Network South Asia)
21 October 2009
The Future of Subaltern Studies: An Afternoon with Professor David Hardiman. (Joint event with Research Network South Asia)
18 September 2009
‘Postcolonial Memory: Resistance, Representation and Revival’. Postgraduate Research Day organized jointly with the Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research). Keynote lecture by Professor Joseph Roach (Yale): ‘The Return of the Last of the Pequots: Disappearance as Heritage’ (podcast).
27 May 2009
Day Trip to Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford and lecture by Laura Peters.
6 May 2009
Reading seminar: Heritage and Objects.
11 February 2009
‘A Critique of Hybridity’ and ‘Indigeneity and Sovereignty’ with Peter Kulchyski (University of Manitoba).
21 January 2009
‘Postcolonialism Today’ with guest expert Stephen Howe (Bristol).
5 December 2008
‘Empire and Genocide: The work of Hannah Arendt’. One-day Conference organized in conjunction with the Holocaust Research Centre, RHUL.
Speakers: Stephen Morton (Southampton), Richard King (Nottingham) and Simon Swift (Leeds).
19 November 2008
Hannah Arendt focusing on Responsibility and Judgment
22 October 2008
Hannah Arendt focusing on The Origins of Totalitarianism
28 July 2008
Postgraduate Research Day: ‘Interrogating the Postcolonial’.
6 June 2008
Film viewing of Bashu, with commentary by Laudan Nooshin (City University).
14 May 2008
The Artist as Public Intellectual, with Jane Taylor (Witwatersrand).
28 February 2008
Research workshop: 'American Tropics', with Peter Hulme (Essex).
23 January 2008
Eexcerpts from Provincialising Europe.
21 November 2007
Research workshop: ‘Volatile Worlds’, with Nigel Clark (Open University).
26 October 2007
One-day workshop: Colonial Genocide.
17 October 2007
Selections from Interventions special issue: Green Postcolonialism.
6 June 2007
Remembering Slavery; visit to British Museum.
2 May 2007
Postcolonialism and the ‘New Racism’, with Simon Gikandi (Princeton).
31 January 2007
‘Critical Whiteness’ with Vron Ware (independent scholar).
29 November 2006
‘Aesthetics and the Postcolonial City’, with Jenny Robinson (Open University).
23 November 2006
Reading by Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga.
4 October 2006
Postcolonialism and Postdevelopment, led by David Simon (Geography).
28 June 2006
Research workshop, ‘Postcolonialism: The Books and the -ism’, with Professor Robert Young (NYU).
14 June 2006
Theorists in Practice: Nelson Mandela.
27 April 2006 (2.00-4.00 pm)
Research workshop: ‘Cities, Bodies and Orientalism’, with Professor Derek Gregory (UBC).
10 May 2006
Early 20th Century North American ‘Black Consciousness’: W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvie.
8 March 2006
Achille Mbembe’s ‘Necropolitics’, Public Culture 15.1 (2003), 11-40.
18 January 2006
Excerpts from Ato Quayson's Calibrations.
30 November 2005
Excerpts from Paul Gilroy’s After Empire.
26 October 2005
Excerpts from Hart and Negri’s Multitude.
Conferences and Symposia Archive
Terror and the Postcolonial
Two day-long workshops investigating the relationship between terror, colonial history and the postcolonial world.
Dates and Venues: 28 April 2006, Royal Holloway; 30 June 2006, University of Southhampton.
Funded by the British Academy, the Canadian High Commission, the Humanities and Arts Research Committee (HARC) and the Graduate School at Royal Holloway.
Convenors: Elleke Boehmer (RHUL) and Stephen Morton (Soton).
Diaspora, Postcolonialism and Performance
One-day international conference for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology.
Date and Venue: 26 November 2005, Middlesex University.
Organiser: Tina K. Ramnarine.
Crossing Stages
Two-day international symposium on cross-cultural, intercultural and postcolonial theatre.
Date and Venue: 12-13 May 2005, Royal Holloway.
Organiser: Helen Gilbert.
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