Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group @PostcolonialNCL
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Join @PatrickBao1 to hear about his new book 'Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance'. 📅Friday 12 May ⏲️2.00pm 🗺️ Newcastle University Reserve your space: shorturl.at/fjD02
Join @PatrickBao1 to hear about his new book 'Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance'. 📅Friday 12 May ⏲️2.00pm 🗺️ Newcastle University Reserve your space: shorturl.at/fjD02
Join our guest speakers & colleagues from Asian Studies Research Group for this upcoming event next Wednesday, 10th on China's influence and academic freedom. @HaSSFacultyNCL @HaSSResNCL @SML_Newcastle @StudentsNCL @PolicyNCL @NclPolitics #research #china
Join our guest speakers & colleagues from Asian Studies Research Group for this upcoming event next Wednesday, 10th on China's influence and academic freedom. @HaSSFacultyNCL @HaSSResNCL @SML_Newcastle @StudentsNCL @PolicyNCL @NclPolitics #research #china
Open to all UG, PGR & PGT students who want to use their creative writing talents @NU_Cities @GenderGroupNcl @Match_NCL @NewcastleUniAPL @MEMS_Newcastle #PoetryPrize
Open to all UG, PGR & PGT students who want to use their creative writing talents @NU_Cities @GenderGroupNcl @Match_NCL @NewcastleUniAPL @MEMS_Newcastle #PoetryPrize
We're ready for @MariaRidda book launch visit to @UniofNewcastle later today - in conversation with @PretiTaneja & @YonghiBongh:'Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City: Mapping the Mean Streets of Mumbai and Naples' - @routledgebooks. Join us on campus, 5pm #postcolonial
Two weeks left to apply for this funded PhD studentship in Diasporic Memory Practices, to work with me @SML_Newcastle! Deadline 29 April 2022 @nuact_NCL @NU_Heritage @PostcolonialNCL ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/f…
Call for Proposals due June 15, 2022: Revolutionary Papers: Counter-Institutions, -Politics and -Cultures of Anticolonial Periodicals in the Global South: radicalhistoryreview.org/2022/04/13/rev…
And tomorrow (20 May) we have our Reading Group at 4pm, discussing #Decolonising the University (2018), eds. Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nişancıoğlu (download via link). Please read the intro and a chapter of your choice. All welcome! research.ncl.ac.uk/postcolonial/r…
Join us today at 5.30pm (May 19) for our final NPRG seminar of the year on “#Postcolonial Pedagogy and the Task of #Decolonization” with Professor Stephanie Newell (Yale) and Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford)! research.ncl.ac.uk/postcolonial/
Next Wed 19 May, 5.30pm BST: Join our last NPRG seminar with Profs Ato Quayson (Stanford) & Stephanie Newell (Yale) on Postcolonial Pedagogy & the Task of Decolonization! research.ncl.ac.uk/postcolonial/s…
The School of Modern Languages is launching a new public-facing blog, Decolonising Modern Languages and Cultures, showcasing conversations on decolonising the curriculum in @SML_Newcastle and more broadly @UniofNewcastle.
Happening tomorrow, Friday 16 April: #BLM in Belgium: Reckoning with Legacies of Colonialism, Violence and Contemporary Racism With panellists Debora Silverman, @stefcraps and Sibo Kanobana 👇👇
Happening tomorrow, Friday 16 April: #BLM in Belgium: Reckoning with Legacies of Colonialism, Violence and Contemporary Racism With panellists Debora Silverman, @stefcraps and Sibo Kanobana 👇👇
And tomorrow we have the next #postcolonialtheory reading group, 4-5pm, discussing Chandra Talpade Mohanty's Under Western Eyes. Text and zoom link can be found here: research.ncl.ac.uk/postcolonial/r…
Fascinating conversation with Filippo Menozzi about world literature, non-synchronism and the politics of time happening now! research.ncl.ac.uk/postcolonial/s…
This week we have two exciting events coming up. Tomorrow we launch the new programme for the semester with a presentation from some of our members. On Thursday, the theory reading group will resume, first discussing bell hooks. Zoom details on the website research.ncl.ac.uk/postcolonial/
Can the Subaltern Speak? Come and discuss Spivak at the next postcolonial reading group, 16th Jan, 5pm at The Teahouse (formerly Quilliams). research.ncl.ac.uk/postcolonial/r…
Section 144 which prevents more than 4 or more people gathering will be imposed in Bangalore for 3 days to prevent a peaceful protest in the city against the #CitizenshipAmendmentBill THIS IS FASCISM. thequint.com/news/india/cit…
Before breaking up for Christmas, come and discuss Fanon with the postcolonial theory reading group! This thursday from 5pm: research.ncl.ac.uk/postcolonial/r…
DATE CHANGE - the next Work in Progress Forum will be held on Wednesday 11th December NOT 4th December. Still from 12-2pm, room 2.4 Leech building. Come and discuss how you do or could use postcolonial theory in your work!
This Wednesday join @CLACSncl for a panel on Bolivia. Lorenza Fontana (GPS) and political analyst John Crabtree (Oxford Centre for Latin American Studies) presenting their views on the complex scenario affecting this Andean nation. 4:30 pm at Newcastle University in BSTC 1.46
THURSDAY - the first postcolonial book club, 5pm, Northern Stage. Come along, have a drink and let's chat Sartre... research.ncl.ac.uk/postcolonial/r…

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