"(De)Provincializing Europe: The Ethics of Cultural Study"
Sara Lennox and R. Radhakrishnan
Tuesday, October 30th at 5.30 PM in Herter 301

Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan (B.A., Loyola College, Madras University, India, 1969; M.A., Madras Christian College, Madras University, India, 1971;  Ph.D., SUNY, Binghamton, 1983) is Professor in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  Professor Radhakrishnan teaches courses on theories of hybridity, nationalisms, and postcolonialism.  He has written and lectured extensively on critical theory, postcoloniality, gender and nationalism, hybridity, and diaspora.  He is the author of Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Theory in an Uneven World (forthcoming, Blackwell, 2001). His work has been widely published in a number of academic journals and books. Recent publications include "Postmodernism and the Rest of the World" (in The Pre-occupation of Post Colonial Studies, 2000) and "Globality, Desire, and the Politics of Representation" (Rethinking Marxism, Fall 00/Spring 2001).

Sara Lennox (B.A., De Pauw, 1965; M.A., Wisconsin, 1966; Ph.D. 1973) is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Director of the Program in Social Thought and Political Economy.  She teaches courses on literary theory, gender and sexuality, contemporary German language literature, and Marx/Nietzsche/Freud.  Her research interests include 20th century German literature, literary theory, feminist theory, Marxist theory, and reconceptualizing German Studies.  She has just completed a book on reading Ingeborg Bachmann and thinking positionality, has recently lectured on thinking German Studies in the context of gender and globalization, and has recently published on Marxism, feminism and postmodernism.  Professor Lennox co-edited The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and its Legacy (with Sara Friedrichsmeyer and Susanne Zantop, 1998) and Nietzsche heute: Die Rezeption seines Werkes nach 1968 (with Sigrid Bauschinger and Susan Cocalis, 1988).

Copies of all readings have been placed on reserve on the third floor of the DuBois Library under COMPLIT 595A: Seminar–Cultural Studies.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. "The Idea of Provincializing Europe." Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2000.

Dirlik, Arlif. "The End and the Beginning of History." Rethinking Marxism, 12.4 (2000): 4-22.

Dussel, Enrique. "Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity." Cultures of Globalization. Eds. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi. Durham, NC: Duke U P, 1993. 3-31.

Sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Additional funding and support provided by Department of French and Italian Studies-UMass, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures-UMass, Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies-UMass, Department of Communication-UMass, Department of English and Comparative Literature-Smith, Department of English-UMass, Film Studies Program-Mt. Holyoke, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies-UMass, Department of Legal Studies-UMass, and Program in Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC)-UMass.

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