[csaa-forum] This Evening Public Lecture 31 July with Dipesh Chakrabarty: Postcolonial Theory and Its Contemporary Challenges

[Jonathan Marshall]

The Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network warmly invite you to the following Public Lecture:


Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago


Postcolonial Theory and Its Contemporary Challenges


When: Thursday, 31 July

Time: 5.30pm for 6pm

Where: UTS Building 2, Level 4, Room 4.10

RSVP: cornelia.betzler at uts.edu.au<https://webmail.adsroot.uts.edu.au/OWA/redir.aspx?C=CF_l9MCntUSwO3Yzy_AlC0UOiZ33dNFIi1zhYQAAV6Yrwx4lGURl_UXnPEFPgu4TxE_Z-TbSpE8.&URL=mailto%3acornelia.betzler%40uts.edu.au>

About the lecture: This lecture will address three main challenges that postcolonial thinking now faces in the Anglo-American academy: ideological fragmentation of academic Marxism, the creation of a global precariat, and environmental crises of planetary proportions.

Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of History and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and a Faculty Fellow at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, The University of Chicago.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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