Gender research: the relevance of postcolonial thinking
Luogo: aula Piscopia - Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Palazzo Prodi, Via Tommaso Gar (TN)
Ora: 17.00
Il seminario metodologico sugli Studi di genere considerati in rapporto a diverse discipline e periodi cronologici è proposto per entrambi i Corso di Dottorato "Culture d'Europa. Ambiente, spazi, storie, arti, idee" e "Le Forme del Testo".
Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, postcolonial thinking has had major impact across disciplines. A prompt for transnational knowledges, it has placed imperialism at the heart of modern power—as a technology of harmfulness that calls forth corresponding objections. This theme establishes it as a contemporary philosophy of renunciation, with a unique proposal for uninjured life and non-injurious community. This seminar takes stock of pertinent field developments and focuses on the disciplinary potential of the concept of renunciation.
Leela Gandhi, John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University, Senior Fellow in the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, leader of Humanities in the World Initiative at the Cogut Institute, received her DPhil and MPhil from the University of Oxford and her BA from Delhi University. She has taught at the University of Chicago, La Trobe University, and Delhi University, and held visiting professorships in Australia, Denmark, India, Italy and Iran. Founding co-editor of Postcolonial Studies, board member of Postcolonial Text, her publications include Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (Columbia University Press, 1998), Measures of Home: Selected Poems (Orient Blackswan, 2000), England Through Colonial Eyes (ed. with Ann Black and Sue Thomas, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (Duke University Press, 2006), and The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy (The University of Chicago Press, 2014).
Responsabile scientifica: Giovanna Covi
