Friday, September 25th, 2009 Colonial Aphasia: On Disabled Histories in France

DateTimeLocation
Friday, September 25, 20094:00PM - 6:00PMExternal Event, William Doo Auditorium
45 Willcocks Street

Series

Southeast Asia Seminar Series

Description

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research in New York since 2004. Her areas of research span the politics of knowledge, colonial governance and its conceptual grammar, racial epistemologies, and the sexual politics of colonial pasts and presents. Her books include: Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra’s Plantation Belt, l870-1979 (Yale, 1985); Race and the Education of Desire (Duke, 1995); Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power (California, 2002); Along the Archival Grain (Princeton, 2009); and the edited volumes, Tensions of Empire, with Frederick Cooper (California, 1997); Haunted by Empire (Duke 2006); Imperial Formations, with Carole McGranahan and Peter Perdue (SAR 2007); and Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination (Duke, forthcoming).


Speakers

Ann Laura Stoler
Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research, New York


Sponsors

Department of Anthropology

Co-Sponsors

Department of History

Asian Institute

Women and Gender Studies Institute

Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies

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