by mesaas | Feb 8, 2021 |
Shame and Resistance in the Post-Colony: Plantation Legacies and Racial Hierarchies in the Mascarene Islands A lecture by artist Shiraz Bayjoo Friday, February 12th, 2021 11am EST / on Zoom Register here The Indian Ocean region, home to the multiple crossovers of...
by mesaas | Feb 8, 2021 |
“Ambedkarite Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Practice” a conversation with Yashadatta Alone (JNU) and Prabhakar Kamble (Mumbai-based artist and curator)moderated by Anupama Rao, ICLS Associate Director Thursday, February 11, 2021 10:00-11:45 AM EST on Zoom....
by mesaas | Feb 4, 2021 |
In this social and intellectual biography, Hamid Dabashi contends that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian...
by mesaas | Feb 3, 2021 |
The Resistance Network is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide. Khatchig Mouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims...
by mesaas | Feb 2, 2021 |
[Registration is Required] “Passing and Personhood: Dalit Writings on Caste Concealment.” Joel Lee (Williams College) and K. Satyanarayana (EFL University, Hyderabad) moderated by Balmurli Natarajan (William Paterson University) The Ambedkar lecture series is...