<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Devleena Ghosh <<a href="mailto:Devleena.Ghosh@uts.edu.au">Devleena.Ghosh@uts.edu.au</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">5 November 2009 4:54:02 PM AEDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">devleena ghosh <<a href="mailto:Devleena.Ghosh@uts.edu.au">Devleena.Ghosh@uts.edu.au</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>UTS: IOSARN Annual Lecture 24 Nov 2009 with Prof. Gyan Pandey, "The politics of difference: Reflections on the Dalit and African American struggles"</b><br></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Apologies for cross posting<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dear Colleagues, </span></font><p align="CENTER"> <font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><font color="#000080"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b><br> UTS:IOSARN is pleased to announce their Annual Lecture to be given by<br> </b></span></font><b><font size="1"><span style="font-size:4pt"><br> </span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Prof. GYANENDRA PANDEY<br> </span></font><span style="font-size:12pt">(Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, Emory University, Atlanta) </span></b></font> </p><div> <font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="CENTER"> <font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>The politics of difference: <br> Reflections on the Dalit and African American struggles </b></span></font> </p><p> <font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><br> </span><span style="font-size:12pt">The notion of difference suggests variety, indeterminacy, play. In public life, however, the</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">concept has for long been appropriated to notions of cultural minority, following from cultural deviance, in the context of claims to national homogeneity. I want in this lecture to examine the complicated history of this discourse, its deployment and its effects; the multiplicity and ever-changing nature of what are described as minorities and minority positions; and the numerous grids along which these classifications operate. I shall argue that in re-thinking the diverse locations and uses of the proclamation of difference, the example of the classically subaltern communities – dalits, blacks, conquered indigenous populations, women – has something unusual to tell us, given their uncertain and changing status as ‘minorities’, as insiders/outsiders who are essential to the continuance of a given social and economic order, and yet have to be confined to a subordinate or marginalized place within it precisely for the maintenance of established structures and relations of power. <br> </font></span><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><br> </span><span style="font-size:12pt">The examples I take up are the Dalit and African American struggles in India and the USA.</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">What happens to the idea of ‘difference’ – or ‘minority’, to which it is commonly reduced – when it is not already visible as a historically or biologically (or ideologically) established truth, but has instead to be constituted as a political category by the marginalized and the disenfranchised (in the broadest sense of those terms)? What, in a word, are the politics of difference?<br> </font><font face="Times New Roman"><br> </font><font color="#000080"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Tuesday 24th November, 6 for 6.30pm<br> UTS, Room 411, Bldg.2, Level 4<br> Join us for drinks from 6pm.<br> RSVP: <a href="x-msg://768/Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au">Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au</a><br> </font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><br> </font></span><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">This is a free public event. All are welcome. Please distribute widely through your networks.<br> <br> Refreshments will be provided.<br> <br> Please send RSVP to <font color="#00007F">Cornelia <a href="x-msg://768/Betzler@uts.edu.au">Betzler@uts.edu.au</a><br> </font><br><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><br></font></span></font></i></b></span></font></p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Gyanendra Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History (D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1975), South Asian and postcolonial history; violence, citizenship and marginality; memory and history. He is the author of Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006); The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (rev. ed. 2006); The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940 (rev. ed. 2002); Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001); and numerous other single authored and collaborative works and articles. The Gyanendra Pandey Omnibus, consisting of three of his books, has been published by Oxford University Press in 2008; and a major edited anthology, Subaltern Citizens and their Histories: Investigations from India and the USA, is to be published by Routledge in summer 2009. He is now working towards two books: a history of subaltern middle class groups, tentatively entitled Genealogies of Prejudice: Notes on the African American and Dalit middle classes; and a study of the autobiographical writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker and Viola Andrews.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><div><br></div><div>Over the last three years, he has also been working to develop a dialogue between historians and social scientists working on the North and the South. Two international, interdisciplinary workshops on the theme of ‘Subaltern Citizens and their Histories: Investigations from India and the USA’, held at Emory in October 2006 and December 2007, a specially edited guest issue of the postcolonial studies journal, Interventions, that was published in November 2008, and the Routledge anthology mentioned above, are among the first results of this effort.</div><div><br></div><div>Gyanendra Pandey was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1970-73). He is a founding member of the Subaltern Studies project, and editor of the new Routledge book series, Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Before coming to Emory he taught at the University of Delhi and at Johns Hopkins.</div></span></div></span></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div>
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