Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group

Updates, events & news from the NPRG: an interdisciplinary research group connecting academics & institutions involved in research into post(-)colonialism

[Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences @HaSSFacultyNCL]

Join @PatrickBao1 to hear about his new book 'Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance'.
📅Friday 12 May
⏲️2.00pm
🗺️ Newcastle University
Reserve your space: https://t.co/7qbjfpW7yf

[NUHRI @nuhri_ncl]

Join our guest speakers & colleagues from Asian Studies Research Group for this upcoming event next Wednesday, 10th on China's influence and academic freedom. @HaSSFacultyNCL @HaSSResNCL @SML_Newcastle @StudentsNCL @PolicyNCL @NclPolitics #research #china

[NUHRI @nuhri_ncl]

Open to all UG, PGR & PGT students who want to use their creative writing talents @NU_Cities @GenderGroupNcl @Match_NCL @NewcastleUniAPL @MEMS_Newcastle #PoetryPrize

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

We're ready for @MariaRidda book launch visit to @UniofNewcastle later today - in conversation with
@PretiTaneja & @YonghiBongh:'Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City: Mapping the Mean Streets of Mumbai and Naples' -
@routledgebooks. Join us on campus, 5pm #postcolonial

[Dr Catherine Gilbert @CathJGilbert]

Two weeks left to apply for this funded PhD studentship in Diasporic Memory Practices, to work with me @SML_Newcastle!
Deadline 29 April 2022
@nuact_NCL @NU_Heritage @PostcolonialNCL
https://t.co/Fz7uwe6gCE

[Radical History Review @RadHistReview]

Call for Proposals due June 15, 2022: Revolutionary Papers: Counter-Institutions, -Politics and -Cultures of Anticolonial Periodicals in the Global South: https://t.co/BAkoyIIVVt

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

And tomorrow (20 May) we have our Reading Group at 4pm, discussing #Decolonising the University (2018), eds. Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nişancıoğlu (download via link). Please read the intro and a chapter of your choice. All welcome!
https://t.co/BUG0E9EnC2

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

Join us today at 5.30pm (May 19) for our final NPRG seminar of the year on “#Postcolonial Pedagogy and the Task of #Decolonization” with Professor Stephanie Newell (Yale) and Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford)! https://t.co/pD1WpYuPo0

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

Next Wed 19 May, 5.30pm BST: Join our last NPRG seminar with Profs Ato Quayson (Stanford) & Stephanie Newell (Yale) on Postcolonial Pedagogy & the Task of Decolonization! https://t.co/s90YTYODxU

[Modern Languages @ NCL @SML_Newcastle]

The School of Modern Languages is launching a new public-facing blog, Decolonising Modern Languages and Cultures, showcasing conversations on decolonising the curriculum in @SML_Newcastle and more broadly @UniofNewcastle.

[Dr Catherine Gilbert @CathJGilbert]

Happening tomorrow, Friday 16 April:
#BLM in Belgium: Reckoning with Legacies of Colonialism, Violence and Contemporary Racism
With panellists Debora Silverman, @stefcraps and Sibo Kanobana
👇👇

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

And tomorrow we have the next #postcolonialtheory reading group, 4-5pm, discussing Chandra Talpade Mohanty's Under Western Eyes. Text and zoom link can be found here: https://t.co/BUG0E9EnC2

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

Fascinating conversation with Filippo Menozzi about world literature, non-synchronism and the politics of time happening now! https://t.co/UxvxRiLV68

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

This week we have two exciting events coming up. Tomorrow we launch the new programme for the semester with a presentation from some of our members. On Thursday, the theory reading group will resume, first discussing bell hooks. Zoom details on the website https://t.co/pD1WpYuPo0

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

Can the Subaltern Speak? Come and discuss Spivak at the next postcolonial reading group, 16th Jan, 5pm at The Teahouse (formerly Quilliams). https://t.co/BUG0E9EnC2

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

Before breaking up for Christmas, come and discuss Fanon with the postcolonial theory reading group! This thursday from 5pm: https://t.co/BUG0E9EnC2

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

DATE CHANGE - the next Work in Progress Forum will be held on Wednesday 11th December NOT 4th December. Still from 12-2pm, room 2.4 Leech building. Come and discuss how you do or could use postcolonial theory in your work!

[¡VAMOS! FESTIVAL @vamos_festival]

This Wednesday join @CLACSncl for a panel on Bolivia.
Lorenza Fontana (GPS) and political analyst John Crabtree (Oxford Centre for Latin American Studies) presenting their views on the complex scenario affecting this Andean nation. 4:30 pm at Newcastle University in BSTC 1.46

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

THURSDAY - the first postcolonial book club, 5pm, Northern Stage. Come along, have a drink and let's chat Sartre... https://t.co/BUG0E9EnC2

[Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL]

Many thanks to Dr Christian Høgsbjerg for a fascinating discussion on CLR James and the mass strike of 1919 in Trinidad! https://t.co/4rMYZn9xOW