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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

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-and revisions of the cultural canon ought to aim both to construct “postcolonial alterities” and to deconstruct dichotomies endemic to “the colonial imaginary” (Uerlings).

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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-

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-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-

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and Multilingualism in One Woman’s War: Da (Mother).”

Join us here:
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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-

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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-

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We had a full house yesterday for our Faculty Fellow lecture with Joaquin Chavez!

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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

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SEENEXT Talk: Vladimir Putin’s Aggression and Suicide: The Cultural-Interactionist Perspective

October 13, 2023
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Institute

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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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Fellows Lecture: Nasser Mufti, English
"Britain's Nineteenth Century, 1963-4"

October 4, 2023
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UIC Institute for the Humanities

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Today at Hull House!!!

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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].

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"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.

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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.

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Todayyyyy!

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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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