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Commonwealth Studies - Current Events
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Wednesday March 25, |
Janhavi Acharekar (Charles Wallace Fellow 2009) ‘A window to Mumbai’s multiple worlds’ Stirling’s 2009 Charles Wallace Writer in Residence from Mumbai, Janhavi Acharekar, will be reading from and discussing her book, window seat. Her work has appeared in the anthologies, First Impressions (TLM) and Stories at the Coffee Table (Caferati), and she regularly writes travel features. Her collection of short stories – window seat: rush-hour stories from the city – was published in 2009 by HarperCollins. |
B2 Pathfoot Building, 5pm |
| Wednesday April 15, | Andrew Smith (Sociology, Glasgow University) ‘Concrete Freedom’: C.L.R. James on culture and black politics. Interest in C.L.R. James’ work has developed significantly in recent years. While this is certainly welcome, it might be argued that his intellectual legacy has become somewhat frayed as a result: that is to say, its many different aspects, which James struggled relentlessly to weave together throughout his life, have been rather unravelled as critics draw on him in relation to their own specialist areas. This paper seeks, in a small way, to recover something of the unity of James’ thought by examining the relationship between two different threads in his work: on the one hand, his relatively well known sociological account of culture; on the other, his less well known, but very important, arguments regarding black struggle in America. James’ thinking in each area here, it is argued, bears heavily on the other and by tracing this relationship we can perhaps start to recover that ‘unity in James’ thought which he himself, late in his life, sought to emphasise. |
B2 Pathfoot Building, 5pm |
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| 10 December | STEPHANIE JONES (Southampton University) ‘The Indian Ocean: narratives in literature and law’ For more information please contact Gemma.Robinson@stir.ac.uk |
5pm in Pathfoot A7 |
| 7 November | POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP: NEW RESEARCH AT STIRLING To get involved email Gemma.Robinson@stir.ac.uk |
4.30pm-7.00pm, Pathfoot A7 |
| 31 October | NAMRATA BHAWNANI (Charles Wallace Fellow) ‘The coca-colonisation of pop culture and masala fiction’ Namrata Bhawnani (Mumbai Mirror, Times of India) will also read from her novel in progress (The Fuck You Philosophy) Supported by the Charles Wallace Trust |
4.30pm in Pathfoot B2 |
| 24–25 October | POLITICS OF MEMORY’ WORKSHOPS Workshop 1 Politics of memory: the nation (Wednesday 24th October 10-12) Participants will include: Supported by the British Academy |
Venue Pathfoot B2 |
| 11 October | KAPKA KASSABOVA Author of All Roads Lead to the Sea (1997), Dismemberment (1998), Someone Else’s Life (2003) and Geography for the Lost (Bloodaxe, 2007) Kapka Kassabova will read from her current work. She was the 2002 New Zealand Cathay Pacific travel writer of the year. Joint event with SCoP: Stirling Centre of Poetry |
7.30pm in Pathfoot C1 |
| 9 October | VICTOR KASULO (Mzuzu University, Malawi) ‘Changes in fisheries policies and legislations during the colonial and postcolonial era in Malawi’ |
5.00pm, Pathfoot A7 |
| 9 May | Devolving Diasporas Workshop |
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| 25 April | Abolition 1807-2007: Abolition and Imperialism: the cases of Dahomey and Lagos 1851-2’ |
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| 18 April | Abolition 1807-2007: James Robertson 'The Case of Joseph Knight: Slavery and Freedom in Enlightenment Scotland' |
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| 28 March | David Richards, Stirling University Inaugural Lecture: “‘Inside the Imaginary Museum”: the archaic, the primitive, and the postcolonial’ |
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| 13 March | Siddharth Chowdhury, Charles Wallace Trust Fellow Reading from his work |
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| 6 March | Radhika Mohanram, Cardiff University ‘The Wage of Whiteness: Mourning and Melancholia in 19th century New Zealand’ |
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| 20 February | Prizing the postcolonial: Panel discussion with the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Judges Angela Smith, Supriya Chaudhuri, Aamer Hussein |
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| 2 February | Caribbean Research Seminar in the North: ‘An undervalued abolitionist - William Dickson of Moffat and Barbados’ ‘Cultural democratisation and readership in contemporary Cuba: challenges and possibilities’ ‘Black Britain, Black France: Migration and Cultural Identity in Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean Writing from the 1950s' |
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