POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES EVENTS @ UNC

Spring 2015

This list will be updated periodically; please email information about additional events to nahuja [at] email.unc.edu.

Steven Salaita, scholar of Arab-American literature and comparative indigenous studies; author of The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan

February 5 Lecture: Uncivil Rites: Academic Freedom and the Silencing of Speech, 730pm, Hyde Hall, Institute of Arts and Humanities

Renisa Mawani, sociologist and critical legal historian; author of Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia

February 19 Lecture: The Komagata Maru, Anticoloniality, and the Itinerant Politics of Indigeneity, 4pm, Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall

February 20 Seminar: The Atmospherics of Race, 4pm, Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall. Before the seminar, please read two articles: “Reontologising Race” (Saldanha) and “Atmospheric Pressures” (Mawani).

Lisa Lowe, cultural theorist and scholar of Asian American studies; author of Immigrant Acts and The Intimacies of Four Continents

March 19 Seminar: Liberalism and Empire, 330pm, Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall

March 20 Lecture: Colonial Difference and the Neoliberal Present, 330pm, Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

Ghassan Hage, anthropologist of race and nationalism; author of White Nation and Against Paranoid Nationalism

April 6 Lecture: The Diasporic Condition, 330pm, Graham Memorial 39

Noura Erakat, legal scholar, activist, and attorney working on Palestine and international humanitarian law

April 9 Lecture: Internationalizing Gaza: The Politics of International Law and the Struggle for Justice, 7pm, Hyde Hall, Institute for Arts and Humanities