We're pleased to announce that the Postcolonial Perspectives reading group will hold its first meeting of the academic year from 4.30 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday 3 November, in BSB 007 (Berrick Saul Building). All postgraduates and staff with an interest in the field are invited to attend.
Our first meeting of the year will focus on the ways in which a range of disciplines have responded to Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), a seminal text in the development of postcolonial studies as a subset of literary theory. In preparation for the meeting, please read at least one of the following articles. All are available online via the Library, apart from Zeynep Çelik’s essay – photocopies of this will be available to collect beside the photocopier on the lower ground floor of the Berrick Saul Building Postgraduate Study Area. If you are unable to access this, please let us know and we can arrange to get a copy to you.
• Çelik, Zeynep. "Speaking back to Orientalist discourse" in Orientalism's Interlocutors (in library, book on visual culture)
• Head, Matthew. "Musicology on Safari: Orientalism and the Spectre of Postcolonial Theory." Music Analysis 22.1-2 (2003): 211-230.
• Sax, William S. "The Hall of Mirrors: Orientalism, Anthropology, and the Other." American Anthropologist 100.2 (1998): 292-301.
• O'Hanlon, Rosalind, and David Washbrook. "After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism, and Politics in the Third World." Comparative Studies in Society and History 34 (1992): 141-167.
• Abu-Lughod, Lila. "Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies" (Review). Feminist Studies 27.1 (2001): 101-113.
Other important events to add to your calendar are the inaugural Postcolonial Perspectives lecture on 29 November, when Dr Yael Maurer from Tel Aviv University will present a paper entitled “Rage against the machine? Cyberspace narratives in Salman Rushdie’s Fury”; and LIVING BEYOND THEORY: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the postcolonial, a one-day postgraduate symposium to be held in York on 11 February 2011.
Saturday 30 October 2010
Tuesday 26 October 2010
LIVING BEYOND THEORY: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the postcolonial
As the field of postcolonial studies has gradually enacted its own colonisation of academic departments across the humanities an escalating self-reflexive urge has become apparent. Increasingly, totalising theories of postcolonial experiences have been seen - for all their complexity – as all too simplistic accounts of the irreducible variety to be found in the experiences and actions of nominally ‘postcolonial’ peoples. As such, the future of postcolonial studies lies in an ever more concerted effort at troubling the postcolonial paradigm, rooting out points of tension, and in establishing new ways of approaching the heterogeneity of the discipline. This future is being written now and it thus falls to young academics to establish for themselves where postcolonial studies should be moving.
Living Beyond Theory is an interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium hosted by the Postcolonial Perspectives reading group at the University of York on Friday 11th February 2011. The symposium is directed towards the problematising of the postcolonial paradigm through an attempt to pay heed to the lived experience of those people who live and have lived within geographic areas affected by colonisation as well as people who, despite not being the direct descendants of colonial situations, enact identities and political positions that take much from the postcolonial project.
The symposium provides a platform for postgraduate students to share their research with a diverse range of other postgraduates in the field(s) of postcolonial studies. The symposium will involve a series of panels framed by two plenary speakers (Simon Obendorf, Lincoln and Ruth Craggs, St. Mary’s University College Twickenham) and culminating in a workshop on the future of postcolonial studies led by 3 early career academics.
While Living Beyond Theory is a conference aimed at building connections between the many disciplines that traditionally make up postcolonial studies, it also seeks to encourage engagement with disciplines that have not always fallen comfortably within those traditions. It is highly likely that the future of postcolonial studies will lie in the expansion of the discipline’s insights beyond its previously narrow boundaries.
Papers are encouraged from any current postgraduate working in the many areas of postcolonial studies and engaging with either side of the traditional coloniser/colonised dichotomy. We especially welcome papers that offer new and dynamic approaches to the space between the theoretical and the experiential.
Please send submissions of up to 300 words for papers of 20 mins as well as a brief academic bio of 50 to 100 words to the organisers (Anna Bocking-Welch, James Alexander Fraser, Isabelle Hesse, and Sarah Pett) at livingbeyondtheory@events.york.ac.uk by 22nd November 2010.
Living Beyond Theory is an interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium hosted by the Postcolonial Perspectives reading group at the University of York on Friday 11th February 2011. The symposium is directed towards the problematising of the postcolonial paradigm through an attempt to pay heed to the lived experience of those people who live and have lived within geographic areas affected by colonisation as well as people who, despite not being the direct descendants of colonial situations, enact identities and political positions that take much from the postcolonial project.
The symposium provides a platform for postgraduate students to share their research with a diverse range of other postgraduates in the field(s) of postcolonial studies. The symposium will involve a series of panels framed by two plenary speakers (Simon Obendorf, Lincoln and Ruth Craggs, St. Mary’s University College Twickenham) and culminating in a workshop on the future of postcolonial studies led by 3 early career academics.
While Living Beyond Theory is a conference aimed at building connections between the many disciplines that traditionally make up postcolonial studies, it also seeks to encourage engagement with disciplines that have not always fallen comfortably within those traditions. It is highly likely that the future of postcolonial studies will lie in the expansion of the discipline’s insights beyond its previously narrow boundaries.
Papers are encouraged from any current postgraduate working in the many areas of postcolonial studies and engaging with either side of the traditional coloniser/colonised dichotomy. We especially welcome papers that offer new and dynamic approaches to the space between the theoretical and the experiential.
Please send submissions of up to 300 words for papers of 20 mins as well as a brief academic bio of 50 to 100 words to the organisers (Anna Bocking-Welch, James Alexander Fraser, Isabelle Hesse, and Sarah Pett) at livingbeyondtheory@events.york.ac.uk by 22nd November 2010.
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