On Descent: Stories from the Gurus of Modern India
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, April 12, 2012 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place |
Series
2011-12 Christopher Ondaatje Lecture on South Asian Art, History, and Culture
Description
PROGRAM:
4:00-6:00 Lecture & Discussion
6:00-8:00 Reception
Leela Gandhi is the author of Postcolonial Theory (1998), Measures of Home (2000), Affective Communities (2006) and the coauthored, England Through Colonial Eyes (2002). She is a founding coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies and Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
The talk will consider the practical and written work of some of the gurus of early-twentieth-century South Asia as an effort to transform democracy itself into an art (or spiritual exercise) of becoming-common. This endeavor becomes properly visible, I’ll hope to argue, when read in context of the complex, transnational field of anticolonial antifascism in this period.
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Asian Heritage Month
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