Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:34:33 +0000 From: "Dr Ross G. Forman" <rf19-AT-soas.ac.uk> Subject: colonization/decolonization conf and lecture by ann stoler PUBLIC LECTURE: PROFESSOR LAURA ANN STOLER In association with the Institute of Romance Studies' conference on "Culture, Colonisation and Decolonisation in South East and South Asia: French, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch Perspectives," the AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures (UCL/SOAS) will host a public lecture by Professor Ann Laura Stoler of the University of Michigan on Friday, 21 February 2003 at 5.30 pm in the Main School Lecture Theatre at SOAS. Stoler will speak on Habits of a Colonial Heart: The Affective Grid of Racial Politics. A renowned scholar of race, gender, and sexuality in colonial South East Asia, Stoler is currently completing a book entitled Along the Archival Grain: Colonial Cultures and Their Affective States. She is the author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995), and her articles have appeared in a variety of historical, anthropological, and gender studies journals, including Representations and Comparative Studies in Society and History. A reception celebrating Stoler's new book, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (California, 2002) will follow her presentation. The lecture is free and open to all. For further information, contact ahrblit-AT-soas.ac.uk. CULTURE, COLONISATION AND DECOLONISATION: =46RENCH, PORTUGUESE, SPANISH AND DUTCH PERSPECTIVES =46RIDAY 21 AND SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2003 INSTITUTE OF ROMANCE STUDIES, SENATE HOUSE, LONDON Sponsored in part by the Centre, this dynamic conference will examine the cultural consequences of the colonisation and decolonisation process in areas of South East and South Asia that have attracted relatively little attention in the English-speaking world: former =46rench Indochina; Guam, Macau, East Timor, Goa; the Philippines; the former Dutch East Indies. It aims to facilitate a dialogue across cultures and disciplines that will expand awareness of the different cultural, social and political processes involved, and will offer ways of thinking about colonisation and the post-colonial that go beyond dominant British models. In addition to Ann Laura Stoler's public lecture, the conference will feature keynote addresses by Jo=E3o Pina-Cabral (University of Lisbon), speaking on New Age Warriors: Negotiating the Handover in the Streets of Macao; Ambeth Ocampo (Chairman, National Historical Institute of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila); Rosa Maria Perez and Stefan Halikowski Smith (Brown University), speaking on Colonisation and Decolonisation in Portuguese India; Peter Carey (University of Oxford), speaking on Third World Colonialism and the Birth of a New Nation: Indonesia through East Timorese Eyes (1975-1999); and Panivong Norindr (University of Southern California), speaking on On the Margins of Culture: Ho Chi Minh's Corp(u)s. These keynotes are open only to registered participants. =46urther information, a full programme and booking form are available from the Institute of Romance Studies (http://www.sas.ac.uk/irs, email: irs-AT-sas.ac.uk, tel. 020 7862 8677). *Please note that when booking, students and staff of the Languages and Cultures Faculty at SOAS and of the Department of Dutch at UCL are eligible to register for the conference at the concessionary rate for IRS members.
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