Please take note of a series of events at Duke related to conversations on postcolonialism, materialisms, and the posthuman turn from 4/14 to 4/17. You need to register to attend the Brennan/Ganguly seminar, so please see the links below.

1) Tim Brennan and Keya Ganguly, University of Minnesota: Materialist Conservation Seminar. Explores left-Hegelian approaches to materialism and being. Full Description here: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/sites/default/files/FHI%20Brennan%20Ganguly%20Seminar%20Description.pdf  ….. Register here: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/brennan-ganguly-seminar-1

2) A lecture by Keya Ganguly on Sri Aurobrindo and Indian nationalist radicalism: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/keya-ganguly-lecture

3) A conference on the thought of Giambattista Vico (which seems to be influenced by Chakrabarty’s examination of Vico’s approach to history in his project on climate change). Speakers include Srinivas Aravamundan, Tim Brennan, and Sabrina Ferry. See  http://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/conference-vico