Join us on Zoom on February 2, 2024 for a thrilling conversation about how this collective has focused on deconstructing the processes of internal and external colonization in Nepali history. Register here:
https://t.co/5tQ8sZutN2
-and revisions of the cultural canon ought to aim both to construct “postcolonial alterities” and to deconstruct dichotomies endemic to “the colonial imaginary” (Uerlings).
Detailed schedule available at: https://t.co/gNVuTBGYXg
Intercultural and postcolonial approaches to literature have opened up interstitial and transitional discursive spaces that can deprivilege Eurocentric ways of reading via cultural transfers that generate an intercultural-
-semiotics. Intercultural and postcolonial readings take impulses from several works of German and cultural Studies scholars, who have urged a critical re-examination of the history of European scholarship as one conditioned by ideology. Seen from this perspective, re-readings-
Dr. Azadeh Safaeian is a Bridge to Faculty Scholar in the Disability & Human Development department. Her work focuses on disability and trauma studies, care studies, postcolonial environmental humanities, animal studies, and film theory. Her current book project attends to the-
discursive and non-discursive representations of somatic pain and psychological trauma in the literatures and cinemas of minority groups in the context of the Middle East. For the meeting, Azadeh will be workshopping an article draft entitled: "She Bursts into Languages: Trauma-
At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing
October 19-20, 2023
100 Architecture + Design Studios
845 W. Harrison St
Register at https://t.co/b6oDxcBBcW.
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Fellows Lecture: Joaquín M. Chávez, History
"Avant-Garde Diplomacy and Cold War Politics in Latin America: The Joint French-Mexican Declaration on El Salvador"
October 12, 2023
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Institute for the Humanities
Sink or Swim. Humanities and Arts in the Anthropocene
October 11, 2023
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Institute
Part of Polish Soundtrack. The Last Chance festival. Full programme here: https://t.co/LrUSQ9pXvg.
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Pssst! The Institute is hiring a graduate research assistant for the Spring 2024 semester, and the window to apply is closing soon! Apply at #UICHandshake by this Sunday, October 1. Questions? Email [email protected].
"Take It As a Fairy Tale": Varlam Shalamov as a Storyteller
September 27, 2023
4 PM - 6 PM
1750 University Hall
Prof Emily Van Buskirk considers Varlam Shalamov as a storyteller on the model of Benjamin’s famous 1936 essay.
The Humanizing Critical Race Theory Project Launch
Funded by the Mellon Foundation
September 28, 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hull House
Dr. Adrien Wing is the featured speaker.
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Gender & Women's Studies Presents The Clusters: The Racialized Body
September 21, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Hybrid event
Institute and Zoom
Register for this event: https://t.co/Y9Gna58Evn
Contact [email protected] with any questions.
Trans Studies Syllabus for Bullshit Times
September 20, 2023
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Online
Register at: https://t.co/NHkQMpvZMo.
Cosponsored by the @UIC_GSC and UIC Institute for the Humanities' Queer and Trans Studies Working Group.
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