Events
Week of Events
Book Launch: The Whites are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection
Book Launch: The Whites are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection
UNC Professor Mark Driscoll will launch his new book The Whites are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection (published by Duke University Press in 2021). In this book, Prof. Driscoll examines nineteenth-century Western imperialism in Asia and … Read more
China in Loops: Signals from 1900 and 2018
China in Loops: Signals from 1900 and 2018
The project of knowing China finds itself in varying loops. Around the turn of the twentieth century, new communicative technologies’ contention with existing print media provided both the material infrastructure and the discursive content for science and technology to encroach … Read more
Aisha as Adaptation of Austen’s Emma
Aisha as Adaptation of Austen’s Emma
Tristanne Connolly (University of Waterloo, Canada) will speak on Rajshree Ojha's 2010 film Aisha as an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Emma, connecting British regency literature to modern-day Bollywood. This talk is free and open to the public, and will be … Read more
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