{"id":147,"date":"2013-11-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/2013\/11\/08\/textual-commodities-in-empire\/"},"modified":"2017-11-28T21:07:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T19:07:43","slug":"textual-commodities-in-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/events\/conferences\/textual-commodities-in-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Textual Commodities in Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Book History Seminars
\n10-11 June 2013<\/h4>\n

WiSER Seminar Room<\/strong>
\n6th floor, Richard Ward Bdg, East Campus, Wits University<\/strong><\/p>\n

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International colloquium on themes of global circulation and reading across empires and their afterlives.<\/p>\n

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Programme:<\/h4>\n

Day 1: Monday June 10<\/h3>\n

9.00-9.15: Welcome and opening remarks<\/p>\n

9.15-10.45 – Session 1: Distant Reading \u2013 Backwards, Forwards and Sideways<\/h4>\n
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  • Ian Henderson, King\u2019s College, University of London, Towards a History of Reading Backwards<\/li>\n
  • Elaine Freedgood, NYU, Hetero-Ontologicality<\/li>\n
  • Discussant: Sarah Nuttall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    11.15-13.00 – Session 3: Paper empires<\/h4>\n
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    • Sarah Gundry, King\u2019s College London, \u2018Homeward Bound\u2019: Periodicity and the Cape Monthly Magazine<\/li>\n
    • Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand, Imperial Commons<\/li>\n
    • Fariha Shaikh, King\u2019s College,\u2018An Imagined Community\u2019? The Social Life of Nineteenth-Century Emigrant Shipboard Newspapers<\/li>\n
    • Discussant: Ashlee Neser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      14.00-16.00 – Session 2: Secondhand empires, imperial jumble<\/h4>\n
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      • Brenda Mhlambi, University of the Witwatersrand, The afterlives of the Zulu Empire: From the oral through the written to popular performance<\/li>\n
      • Khwezi Mkhize, University of Pennsylvania, Dangerous Liaisons: Making Affiliations and Black Empire in early Twentieth Century South Africa<\/li>\n
      • Achal Prabhala (Independent scholar, Bangalore), Word domination: The Enduring Legacy of the Cultural Cold War in India and Africa<\/li>\n
      • Discussant: Sharad Chari<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Day 2: Tuesday June 11<\/h3>\n

        9.00-10.30 – Session 1: Cutting Writing and Image<\/h4>\n
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        • Sandra Young, University of Cape Town, Visual literacy and imperialist logic: the circulation of woodcut images of \u2018new world\u2019 peoples in the sixteenth century<\/li>\n
        • Adrien Delmas, IFAS, The history of writing in the early modern period through the reception of the Codex Mendoza<\/li>\n
        • Discussant: Cynthia Kros<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          11.00-13.00 – Session 2: Affect, Pedagogy, Distance<\/h4>\n
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          • Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter College, CUNY, Criticism on Trial: Criminalizing Affect at the Wilde trials and the trial of the Bangavasi<\/li>\n
          • Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University, The Calcutta School-Book Society and the Production of Knowledge<\/li>\n
          • Devleena Ghosh, UTS, Burma-Bengal Crossings: Representations of Liminalities in Bengali literature of the pre-independence era<\/li>\n
          • Discussant: Dilip Menon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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            14.00-15.00 – Session 3: Closing Comments<\/h4>\n
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            • Isabel Hofmeyr, Sarah Nuttall, Tanya Agothocleous<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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