Seminars and Distinguished Visitors, 2016-2017
Sept 21-22: Political Violence and Political Justice
Mahmood Mamdani
Oct 13: Migrations, Islands, and the Creative Economy
Françoise Lionnet
Nov 4: Colonialism, Slavery, and the Archive: Old and New Practices
Vincent Brown, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Vivek Bald
Dec 2: Plantation Dispossession and the Futures of Black Embodiment
Alexander Weheliye, Katherine McKittrick, Demetrius Eudell
Jan 26: Comparative Postcolonial Theory and the Question of Chinese Empire
Shu-mei Shih
Feb 16: Colonial Memory and Trauma
Debarati Sanyal, Stef Craps
Feb 23: Race and the Human
Alondra Nelson
Mar 9: Rethinking the Human: Epistemology/Therapeutics
Emily Martin, Lawrence Cohen
Mar 28-29: Empire of Religion
David Chidester
Apr 3: The Politics of Human Rights
Judith Butler
Apr 20: Sovereignty, Settler Colonialism, Territoriality and Resistance
Audra Simpson, Jessica Cattelino
"Between Two Worlds," A Conversation with Mira Nair
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair inaugurates the 2016-2017 Mellon Sawyer Seminar on April 20, 2016
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The Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Comparative Global Humanities project is an interdisciplinary research initiative linking Tufts’ and other Boston-area faculty across the humanities and interpretive social sciences with scholars at international universities. The seminar builds on traditional humanities knowledge in comparative literature, comparative religion, world history, and anthropological studies, while offering alternative research models that go beyond the study of cultures as bounded units analogous to one another.
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