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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:11:31 EST
Subject: seminar series, ahrb centre for asian and african lits, london


AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures
Seminar Series, Second Term 2002

The AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literature, a joint venture by UCL and SOAS, would like to announce the following seminar series, which is open to all interested scholars.

14 January
Dr Loredana Polezzi (Italian, Warwick)
“Travels through Translated Africa:  20th-Century Italian Travellers and the Dissemination of Images of the African Continent.”

21 January
Prof Mineke Schipper (Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, University of Leiden)
“ ‘Every River Runs to Its Mama’: Intercultural Perspectives on Motherhood and Sonship in Proverbs Worldwide”

28 January
Dr João Cezar de Castro Rocha (Comparative Literature, State University of Rio de Janeiro)
“Brazil As Exposition:  Exposing Cultural Moments from 1500 to Modernist Anthropophagy to the Present.”


4 February
Prof Reinier Salverda (Dutch, UCL)
“The Literature and Politics of Decolonization:  Multatuli and Pramudya Ananta Tur.”

11 February
Reading Week. No Seminar.

18 February
Dr Rachel Dwyer (South Asian, SOAS)
“Kiss or Tell: Declaring Love in Hindi Films.”

25 February
Dr David Anderson (History, SOAS)
“Mau Mau at the Movies:  Contemporary Representations of an Anti-Colonial War.”

4 March
Dr Lim Song Hwee (East Asian Studies, Leeds)
“Celluloid Comrades: Male Homosexuality in 1990s Films from China, 
Taiwan, and Hong Kong.”

11 March
Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe (Africa, SOAS)
“Shaping African Feminist Thought: A Critical Evaluation.”

18 March
Dr David Vilaseca (Hispanic Studies, Royal Holloway)
 “Why Does One Write A Personal Diary?:  Saying as Prophecy in Jaime Gil de Biedma's Retrato del artista en 1956.”


All seminars will take place on Mondays at 5.30 pm in Room 216, Foster Court, UCL.

For more information, see the Centre’s website at http://www.soas.ac.uk/literatures/ or contact the Centre by email at ahrblit-AT-soas.ac.uk or by phone on +44 (020) 7898 4267.




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