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Challenging Dominant Disciplinary Paradigms in Literary and Cultural Studies and Human Geography

Friday 8 February 2019, 5.30-7pm followed by a reception

Yusuf Hamied Lecture Theatre, Christ’s College

All welcome


A conversation about race and coloniality with: 

María Teresa Vera-Rojas, Universitat de Lleida, specialist in Hispanic Caribbean, Gender, and Queer Studies, editor of 452ºF. Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, author of “Se conoce que usted es ‘Moderna’”: Lecturas de la mujer moderna en la colonia hispana de Nueva York (1920-1940) (Iberoamericana Verveurt, 2018)

and

Beth Kamunge, University of Sheffield, black-feminist researcher specialising in food epistemologies, co-editor of The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence (Zed Books, 2018)  

 

Organisers: Sarah Radcliffe (sar23@cam.ac.uk) and Natasha Tanna (nt267@cam.ac.uk

Please contact one of the organisers to register your attendance and to receive the speakers’ texts (‘Writing in the Fire Now: Beth Dialogues with Wambui and Osop’ and ‘Autoreferentiality, imperial memory, and colonial gaze in the Hispanic Caribbean Studies in Spain’) in advance of the event.

There is a ramp to access the ground-floor lecture theatre and gender-neutral toilets on the lower ground floor, accessible by lift. This event is part of a series to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the admission of women students to Christ’s.