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British Studies Symposium. March 17-18. UNC Chapel Hill and Duke
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BRITISH STUDIES IN TRANSITION: the global, the national, and the transnational- A Symposium, March 17-18th, 2011. Hosted at UNC-CH and Duke.
Convened by Professors Susan Pennybacker (UNC Chapel Hill), Susan Thorne (Duke), and Philip Stern (Duke)
Speakers on 3/17:
Margaret Hunt, Amherst
“European Soldiers and Sailors in Seventeenth-century South Asia:
Plebeian Attitudes toward Cultural Difference and Diversity”
Durba Ghosh, Cornell
“Imperial Liberalisms: a View from India in the Interwar Years”
Jonathan Hyslop, Colgate and Pretoria
“Race, Labor, and War in the Dominions: New Perspectives on Britain's Southern Hemisphere Empire c. 1901-1971”
With Professors Vince Brown (Duke) and Christopher Lee (UNC Chapel Hill) as discussants
Speakers on 3/18:
Philippa Levine, Texas at Austin
“The Empire Has No Clothes: Nakedness, Colonialism and Culture”
Deborah Nord, Princeton
“The Location of Home: Migration, Gender, and Politics in the Fiction of Anita Desai and Nadine Gordimer”
Timothy Parsons, Washington University
“Identity and the End of Empire: An African Perspective”
With Professors Lawrence Black (Duke, and Durham, UK) and Dane Kennedy (George Washington University, and Fellow, National Center for the Humanities) as discussants.
For both days of the event, please contact Ryan Peeks at rpeeks@email.unc.edu to RSVP and/or inquire about parking and bus information. Parking is available on a first-come, first-serve basis at no cost- please reserve!
For further information, please visit
http://britishstudiesintransitionsymposium.web.unc.edu or email Ryan Peeks at rpeeks@email.unc.edu
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