Resources in Anti-Colonial Thought (2)

Spring 2013

Frantz Fanon photo by désinteret on Flickr

Research seminar organised in collaboration with the Institute of English Studies at the University of London.

Venue: Senate House. Seminars are on Thursdays from 17.30 -19.00
Venue map for Senate House

About the series: This is the second of a two-part series of seminars on anti-colonial thinkers whose work has to date been relatively neglected in Postcolonial Literary Studies. You can download the programme in PDF format.

Seminar Schedule

Thursday 14 March 2013
Senate House Room 234

Priyamvada Gopal
‘Half the Story: Anti-Colonialism in the making of Britain’

Priyamvada Gopal is Senior Lecture in English at the University of Cambridge. Her publications include Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence (2005), The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration (2009), and the co-edited special issue of New Formations ‘After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies’ (2006). Her current Leverhulme-funded project is ‘Half the Story: Anti-Colonialism in the Making of Britain’.

Thursday 18 April 2013
Senate House Room 234

Deaglán Ó Donghaile
‘Oscar Wilde, the Fenian Movement, and Irish Anti-imperialism’

Deaglán Ó Donghaile is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of the monograph Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism (2011), and is currently working on a second book, which focuses on Oscar Wilde’s engagement with anarchism, socialism and Irish Fenianism.

Thursday 16 May 2013
Senate House Room 234

Cathy Bergin
‘“TOWARDS SOVIET AMERICA”: The Communist Party of the United States and questions of race and colonialism’

Cathy Bergin is a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Programme at the University of Brighton. She is currently completing a book on the relationship between African American writers and Communism, ‘Bitter with the Past, But Sweet with the Dream’: Communism in the African American Imaginary, due out in 2013.

For any queries regarding the Spring 2013 seminar series, contact the organisers David Johnson (D.W.Johnson@open.ac.uk) or Alex Tickell (A.Tickell@open.ac.uk), Department of English, The Open University.