11 December 2009 – A Symposium Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of the Journal Metaphilosophy
Will Sweetman – The Bibliotheca Malabarica: an Eighteenth- Century Tamil Library
10 December 2009 – This paper will survey Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg’s Tamil library, including both works acquired after the compilation of the Bibliotheca Malabarica and significant gaps in his collection.
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Helen Graham – Border Crossings: Thinking about the International Brigaders before and after Spain
3 December 2009 – The International Brigaders fought for the democratic Republic during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), later forming the core of early World War II Resistance movements. This lecture explores their origins in the broader history of the 20th century European diaspora; their significance as the antithesis of Hitler’s New Order; and their lives of perpetual border-crossing as a definition of dynamic social change.
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Nina Power – Stony Ground but not entirely: Beckett and the Humanities
2 December 2009 – Beckett’s relationship to what we might understand by ‘the Humanities’ is a vexed one. Beckett’s references are often classical (Dante, the Bible, Descartes), and yet he is heralded as the great forerunner of certain kinds of poststructuralist concerns regarding the death of the author, the opacity of meaning, and so on.
Jagtar Singh – Islam, Young Muslims and Identity – the stratification of discrimination in the UK
2 December 2009 – The paper will focus on Islam in the context of the rise of religious affiliation globally, highlight the demographic significance of ‘Muslim youth’ or young people of Muslim heritage and discuss the distinctive as well as common experience of Muslim and minority communities in the UK.
William Cohen – Queer Universality and the French Oscar Wilde
2 December 2009 – William A. Cohen is professor of English at the University of Maryland and will speak on: “Queer Universality and the French Oscar Wilde”
Islam, Muslim Youth and Identity – History and Social Sciences Faculty Seminar Series – schedule
2009-2010 – series schedule
Tommaso Bobbio – Economic and Social Change and Violence in Ahmadabad 1950-2000
1 December 2009 – Tommaso Bobbio – Economic and Social Change and Violence in Ahmadabad 1950-2000